Mediagazer: Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds import to the role of new archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive (Evan Hill/BuzzFeed)

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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:

Annotated transcript of Michelle Wolf's caustic roasting of the Trump administration and the media at the White House Correspondents Dinner — Comedian Michelle Wolf roasted members of the Trump administration and the media at the annual White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday.

Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

IAB report advises media buyers to spend on digital video ahead of next week's NewFronts, as audiences are younger and more diverse — Online advertising trade organization touts video viewership ahead of NewFronts next week — As publishers prepare to woo the advertising industry next week …

Evan Hill / BuzzFeed:

Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds import to the role of new archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive — We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it. — Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed.

Discussion: @shapingyouth and @digiphile

Tim Alberta / Politico:

Profile of Brent Bozell and his Media Research Center, which has chipped away at media credibility in the minds of conservatives for 30 years — Long before cries of ‘fake news,’ there was Brent Bozell and his Media Research Center. — You couldn't miss it.

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Quinnipiac University poll finds nearly 40% of Americans, 80% of Republicans agree with Trump's tweet that “fake news media is the enemy of the American people” — It has faded into the background noise by now, as does anything in politics these days that's older than about 12 hours.

Discussion: @pbump, Outside the Beltway and NBC News

Mathias Döpfner / Business Insider:

In Q&A after receiving the Axel Springer award for 2018, Bezos says he would never interfere in The Washington Post's coverage because it would feel “gross” — Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, recently sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos …

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Mic posts half as much on Facebook as it did a year ago and has stopped parter swaps, focusing instead on Apple News and Twitter to reach audiences — The millennial-aimed Mic has represented just about every digital media trend since it started seven years ago, distributing as far and wide …

Stephanie Russell-Kraft / Columbia Journalism Review:

Religion News Service EIC Jerome Socolovsky fired, staffers say publisher Tom Gallagher has attempted to influence editorial, two staffers resigned in protest — Early in the morning on Monday, April 23, members and followers of the “God beat” awoke to upsetting news.

Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:

Joy Reid pivots from hacking claims during monologue, says she doesn't believe she wrote the blog posts and apologizes for her past comments about LGBTQ people — MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Saturday morning offered a lengthy apology for a series of homophobic blog posts attributed to her …

Discussion: HuffPost, NBC News, @jaspar, @harrymccracken and @bariweiss

New York Times:

What The New York Times got right and wrong about AIDS and gay issues in the 1980s and 1990s, through the eyes of six LGBTQ staffers — The New York Times had a spotty record of covering the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s — and gay culture in general. Times staffers reflect on the paper's past …