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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the White House is investigating the EPA's ban of reporters from certain news outlets on Tuesday — The Environmental Protection Agency temporarily barred journalists and the public from a national summit Tuesday addressing toxic chemicals contamination …
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Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone:
CNN statement on network's reporter being “selectively” turned away, along with reporters from other outlets, from EPA event
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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Comcast says it is in the advanced stages of preparing an all-cash offer for parts of 21st Century Fox that Rupert Murdoch's company agreed to sell to Disney — - Comcast said Wednesday it is in “advanced stages of preparing” an all-cash offer for parts of Twenty-First Century Fox …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Source: Sinclair is laying the groundwork for a Fox News competitor, is in talks with current and former Fox News stars about joining the would-be network — Company execs are taking meetings with conservative stars as a prelude to launching a competitor to the Murdoch-led juggernaut.
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@jeremymbarr and @lionelmedia
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Newspaper-owning hedge funds point to profits and hiring of experienced executives, but layoffs and other cost-cutting measures seem to belie good intentions — Coast to coast, financial firms are playing a bigger role at local papers struggling to adapt in digital age
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Poynter, @dabeard, @briankarem, @eddyelfenbein, @vwpickard and @gerryfsmith
Rick Maese / Washington Post:
Profile of PFT Commenter, the anonymous satirical sports podcaster behind Pardon My Take who began as a parody Twitter account — NEW YORK — Wearing dark sunglasses with an acoustic guitar slung over his shoulder, the most unlikely sports media personality on the planet stepped through …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
At Deadline Club dinner, Lesley Stahl said Trump told her he bashes the press “so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you” — - President Donald Trump said he bashes the press to “demean” and “discredit” reporters so that no one will believe negative stories …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Sources: GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy subpoenaed the AP for info about the source of hacked emails that formed the basis of recent reports about him — The impasse comes at a time when political battles are increasingly being waged via leaks of hacked data.
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@schreckreports, @evan_rosenfeld, @kt_so_it_goes, @aliasvaughn, @evan_rosenfeld, New York Magazine, The Week and Vanity Fair
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
CBS amended its lawsuit against National Amusements on Wednesday, claiming bylaw changes imposed by Shari Redstone last week are invalid under Delaware law — CBS has amended its lawsuit against National Amusements on Wednesday, adding claims that the bylaw changes the parent company imposed last week are invalid under Delaware law.
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
New miniseries shows NYT is thriving despite its bleak outlook in the 2011 Page One documentary, but the struggles it faced still plague other outlets — Imagine the first year of the Trump administration without Maggie Haberman embedded in the West Wing. Without Michael Schmidt breaking open the James Comey saga.
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The Straits Times:
Clare Rewcastle Brown, a Malaysian-born British journalist whose reporting on corruption helped topple the regime, is welcomed back in Malaysia — KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Clare Rewcastle Brown was harassed and vilified for years for waging a quixotic campaign to expose Malaysian corruption …
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@jerometaylor, @rezhasan and @jakpost
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Pennsylvania's PBS39/WLVT to use some of its $82M from last year's spectrum sale to hire 10 reporters for a weekday newscast to complement commercial news — “Our goal is a newscast that is complementary to the commercial news”: Think important local issues, not car crashes and sports scores.
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@jim_deegan, @niemanlab, @newsbyschmidt and @niemanlab
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