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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted that CNN reporter Jim Acosta should have had press credentials removed for asking questions at Singapore summit — CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta hit back at President Trump — 's 2020 campaign manager's call for his press credentials …
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
Trump criticizes CNN and NBC News over coverage of Singapore summit, calls the press “the country's greatest enemy”
Trump criticizes CNN and NBC News over coverage of Singapore summit, calls the press “the country's greatest enemy”
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Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
A behind-the-scenes look at the North Korea summit and journalists' efforts to ask Kim Jong Un about denuclearization
A behind-the-scenes look at the North Korea summit and journalists' efforts to ask Kim Jong Un about denuclearization
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Keith Coleman / Twitter:
Twitter says it's redesigning Moments by introducing vertical scrolling and adding multiple timelines for some US Moments — People come to Twitter to see and discuss what matters to them — from breaking news to the day's events and memes. This is because whatever is happening in the world …
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Rachel Kaser / The Next Web:
Twitter will soon offer users in US personalized news updates, alerting them to events or breaking news based on their interests, like the accounts they follow — Twitter today announced an upcoming addition to its suite of mobile notifications. Namely, it will soon offer users personalized news updates …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NYT to review Ali Watkins' work, including her relationship with Senate Intelligence Committee aide James A. Wolfe and what she disclosed to former employers — The New York Times is reviewing the work history of Ali Watkins, a Washington-based reporter at the newspaper whose email …
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Washington Post:
A Customs and Border Protection agent questioned national security reporter Ali Watkins about her sources in June 2017; agency now is examining agent's actions — The actions of a Customs and Border Protection agent who confronted a reporter covering national security issues …
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Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Judge rules that AT&T can complete its $85B merger with Time Warner, did not impose conditions on the approval — - The Justice Department sued last year to block the merger, citing concerns that AT&T, owner of satellite television provider DirecTV, could charge rival distributors …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Canadian outlet The Logic to offer subscriptions for $300 per year with a focus on the intersection of business, tech, policy, politics, and culture — “Is it a tech story? Is it a business and tech or policy and politics story, is it a cultural story? Well, it's actually all the above …
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Adblock Plus's parent company Eyeo launches Trusted News, a browser extension for Chrome, which helps users identify fake news — eyeo, the company behind the popular browser-based ad block product Adblock Plus, is no stranger to controversy. Which is just as well given its new …
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Vladimir Kozlov / Hollywood Reporter:
Major Russian broadcasters partner to build More.TV, a streaming service with both ad and subscription-based options featuring movies, TV, more, slated for 2019 — More.TV will compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime, also becoming a new vehicle for Hollywood fare.
Financial Times:
Interviews with 25+ employees who worked closely with former WPP boss Martin Sorrell shows routine verbal abuse, and questions about use of company funds — Martin Sorrell's driver had worked for the WPP chief executive for 15 years, ferrying the ad land king around London in a Range Rover.
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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times introduces a personalized weekly newsletter, “Your Weekly Edition”, curated by editors and machine-learning algorithms — The New York Times has introduced “Your Weekly Edition,” an experimental newsletter of the stories readers might have missed, published and delivered every Friday.
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Conservative pundit Armstrong Williams is buying three local TV stations from Sinclair for $4.95M, which is about $45M-$55M less than their estimated worth — Selling TV stations to select buyers for below-market prices could jeopardize FCC approval of Sinclair-Tribune merger.