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Internal email: AT&T's CEO says hiring Michael Cohen was a serious misjudgment, but “was done according to the law and entirely legitimate” — (Reuters) - Hiring President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was a “big mistake,” AT&T Inc (T.N) …
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Internal AT&T documents show it made a $600K deal with Cohen days after inauguration, specifying he would advise on Time Warner merger and on matters before FCC — Three days after President Trump was sworn into office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney Michael Cohen …
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Stella Bugbee / The Cut:
Anna Wintour's effort to rehabilitate the reputation of Harvey Weinstein's estranged wife, designer Georgina Chapman, is a way to seek forgiveness for herself — Anna Wintour is our Fashion Pope, the infallible ruler of Vogue, fashion's Vatican. Both because of her reputation …
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@victoriaspies, @askmrmickey, @janinegibson, @edmundlee, @ruthannharnisch, New York Times, Fortune, Vogue and Slate
David Skok:
Interview with Google News VP Richard Gingras on data privacy, Google's internal culture and politics, criticism ahead of the GDPR, and rethinking journalism — The head of Google News discusses the news ecosystem, responds to GDPR criticism, and answers the question: Is Google really a child of the open web?
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@niemanlab, Nieman Lab, @jason_kint, @mrjohncrowley, @sophienadeau, @jason_kint, @mdichristina, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Financial Times:
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson calls for governments to create an “algorithm review board” to keep tech companies in check — The head of News Corp has called for governments to create an “algorithm review board” to keep tech companies in check, the latest in a long line of attacks …
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Reuters:
News Corp beats estimates with Q3 revenue of $2.09B, up 5.8% YoY, records net loss of $1.13B mainly due to write-downs for Telstra/Foxtel deal in Australia — (Reuters) - News Corp (NWSA.O), controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, topped analysts' estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday …
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
One of two reporters on Mike Pompeo's mission to North Korea gives a behind-the-scenes account of the trip to bring three prisoners home — The State Department normally craves elaborate planning and procedures for everything. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's 13-hour visit to North Korea had little of that.
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@davidnakamura, @cfishman, @yashar, New York Magazine and The Daily Caller
Louis Lucero II / New York Times:
Novelist Junot Díaz steps down as Pulitzer Prize board chairman while the board conducts a review of sexual misconduct allegations against him — The Pulitzer Prize board has opened an independent review of sexual misconduct allegations against the award-winning novelist Junot Díaz …
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Slate, PEN America, BBC, HuffPost and CNN
Tariq Panja / New York Times:
How sports programs are being stolen from Qatar's beIN Sports, which has rights from France, Spain, Turkey; BeIN traced pirated signal to Saudi Arabia's Arabsat — DOHA, Qatar — What do you do when your multibillion dollar sports network has been stolen? — Executives at Qatar's beIN …
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Greg Dool / Folio:
Meredith nearly doubles National Media revenues with Time Inc. acquisition but thins profit margins, reporting revenue of $479.3M and operating profit of $9M — Meredith Corp.'s ongoing integration of Time Inc. has nearly doubled revenues for its national media business …
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MediaPost, PR Newswire, Meredith Corporation and Radio & Television …
Dan Rys / Billboard:
Spotify removes R. Kelly and rapper XXXTentacion from the service's playlists, including-algorithmically generated ones, as part of new “hateful conduct” policy — YOUTUBE — Beginning today (May 10), Spotify users will no longer be able to find R. Kelly's music …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
IAB report: online advertising exceeded total spent on broadcast and cable TV in 2017, reaching $88B, a 21% increase from 2016; mobile rose 36% YoY to $49.9B — Online advertising reached $88 billion last year, a 21 percent increase from 2016 and a new high, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Talking Points Memo staff unionizes with Writers Guild of America East, joining other media sites including Thrillist, Vox Media, and Vice — This morning I was coming into work after attending my son's school play and got an email from our editorial staff in DC and NY telling …
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