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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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
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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%
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%
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Judge rules that AT&T can complete its $85B merger with Time Warner, did not impose conditions on the approval
Judge rules that AT&T can complete its $85B merger with Time Warner, did not impose conditions on the approval
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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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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”
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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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 …
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Pew Research Center:
Study: US daily paper circulation down 11% weekdays, 10% Sunday from 2017; alt-weekly circulation down 10% from 2016; digital ad revenue up slightly from 2017 — MORE FACT SHEETS: STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA — Newspapers are a critical part of the American news landscape …
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TechCrunch:
Facebook will require businesses using its Custom Audiences ad tool declare whether contact information was gained with user consent starting July 2 — Facebook is hoping to avoid another privacy scandal by adding new accountability and transparency requirements for businesses that use …
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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 — EXCLUSIVE: Participant Media has acquired feature rights to S-Town, the This American Life podcast. Spotlight's Tom McCarthy is in negotiations to direct …
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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 …
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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
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
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