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8:00 AM ET, April 30, 2018

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Washington Post:
The White House Correspondents Dinner: celebrity guests, scholarships and awards, the president's absence, and Michelle Wolf's cringeworthy jokes  —  Welcome to our coverage of the 2018 White House Correspondents' Association dinner.  —  The president may not be attending this year's event …
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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.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists should stop the White House Correspondents Dinner because it has become downright counterproductive to the goals of good journalism  —  The 2018 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner should be the last.  —  It never has been a particularly good idea for journalists …
Jen Chaney / Vulture:
Examining the puzzling pearl-clutching of people who said Michelle Wolf criticized Sarah Sanders' appearance, which Wolf didn't do  —  As soon as Michelle Wolf finished delivering her blistering White House Correspondents Dinner roast of the Trump administration and the members of the press that cover it …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The DOJ deleted a section from US Attorneys' Manual called “Need for Free Press and Public Trial”; Eric Holder-era policies on subpoenaing reporters remain  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ordered a review of the US Attorneys' Manual, which features high-level policy statements …
Discussion: Law & Crime and New York Magazine
Variety:
A lawyer who represented one of Matt Lauer's victims has called on NBC News to hire an outside firm to investigate growing number of sexual harassment claims  —  Ari Wilkenfeld, the civil rights lawyer who represented the victim of sexual misconduct whose complaint got Matt Lauer fired …
Discussion: Variety, Fortune and Splinter
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.
Sam Forsdick / Press Gazette:
Suicide bomber in Kabul, disguised as a reporter, detonated a bomb whilst among press pack, killing nine journalists, including AFP photographer, and 16 others  —  A twin suicide attack in Afghani capital Kabul has killed 25 people including up to nine journalists, with one bomber having disguised himself …
Discussion: CNN, @sulomeanderson and Liste
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.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Mic posts half as much on Facebook as it did a year ago and has stopped partner 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 …
 
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