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7:10 AM ET, June 14, 2018

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Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Sources: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and deputy press secretary Raj Shah to exit the Trump administration; Sanders to leave at year's end  —  Two of the most visible members of the Trump administration are planning their departures, the latest sign of upheaval in a White House marked by turmoil.
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 …
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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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 …
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
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: CNN President Jeff Zucker quietly renewed his contract through the 2020 election several months ago; AT&T execs were aware and supportive of deal  —  Donald Trump's old boss, and favorite media adversary, is back for a rematch.
Campbell Brown / Facebook:
Facebook plans to separate archives for political ads and for ads promoting news publishers' political content; publisher archive will be ready in a few weeks  —  Campbell Brown, Head of Global News Partnerships  —  I want to clarify some misconceptions around our new political ads policy …
Jason Guerrasio / Business Insider:
MoviePass says it surpassed 3M subscribers and expects to hit 5M by the end of the year as growth slows  —  - MoviePass announced it has passed the 3 million paid subscribers mark.  — However, growth for the movie ticket subscription service is slowing.
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Inside the Open Markets Institute Conference attended by politicians and media execs who discussed the role of Facebook and Google on the media industry  —  You can't bust a trust if the trust busts you first.  —  Reporting From Washington, D.C.  —  The rising anti-Trust movement gathered Tuesday …
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T faces challenges like unruly talent, high costs, culture clashes with Time Warner merger; sources say its targeted ad strategy may cannibalize ad revenue  —  Unruly talent, high costs, clashing cultures and an ambitious ad strategy await leaders of the soon-to-be telecom-media giant
Bloomberg:
Fox's coverage of the World Cup soccer tournament in Russia will see eight of its 12 broadcasters commentating on the game from the network's LA studio  —  - Eight of 12 announcers stay in L.A. studio to save money  — Absence of U.S. team forces Fox to lower ratings projections
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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
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%
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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
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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
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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Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal:
ByteDance says it has no plans to sell TikTok, responding to a report suggesting that the Chinese company is considering selling a majority stake in TikTok US
 
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