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4:30 PM ET, June 13, 2018

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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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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  —  It was as good a moment as any.  Rivers of sweat rolled down my face amid Singapore's searing heat and 75% humidity.  —  I was separated by a moat from President Trump …
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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 …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter will soon begin curating dedicated pages for events, with tweets, videos, and more, that will be promoted across notifications, Explore tab, and more
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
Wall Street Journal:
Comcast offers $65B all-cash bid for most of 21st Century Fox, a 19% premium on Disney's offer, kicking off a potential bidding war with Disney  —  Offer is seen as kicking off a fight with Disney for the Hollywood studio owner  —  Comcast Corp. CMCSA -.22% on Wednesday offered to buy …
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 …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Adblock Plus's parent company Eyeo launches Trusted News, a browser extension for Chrome, that 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 “passion project” …
Tae Kim / CNBC:
Post-AT&T ruling, media companies see shares rise: Time Warner and CBS opened up 3%, 21st Century Fox up 7%+, Viacom up 3%, Netflix up 1%  —  - Wall Street analysts expect more media industry mergers and acquisitions after AT&T's legal victory in its deal to buy Time Warner.
Discussion: hypebot, CNBC and CNBC
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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 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.
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.
Nick Pino / TechRadar.com:
Netflix is partnering with Telltale Games to bring games to the streaming service, initially starting with Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode  —  EXCLUSIVE: Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode outed as first streamable game  —  Netflix and Telltale Games have entered into a deal …
 
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Musical.ly to pull its standalone live streaming app Live.ly, launched in 2016, and roll its features into the main app
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Participant Media has picked up the film rights to This American Life podcast S-Town, with Spotlight's Tom McCarthy in talks to direct
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Hearst adds two-person investigative unit to its Washington D.C. bureau, headed up by Chief National Investigative Correspondent Mark Albert
Discussion: TVSpy
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
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Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
Reddit is rolling out autoplaying video ads on mobile and desktop for standalone ad campaigns, but this rollout will not add pre-roll ads to videos
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From Techmeme:

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

 
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