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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Trump criticizes CNN and NBC News over coverage of Singapore summit, calls the press “the country's greatest enemy” — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lashed out again at the news media, characterizing “fake news” as 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
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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
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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
Miranda Ward / nine.com.au:
Bauer Media wins appeal to reduce actor Rebel Wilson's defamation payout from $4.5M to $600,000 — Rebel Wilson's defamation payout from German-based publisher Bauer Media has been drastically reduced from $4.5 million to $600,000. — The actress she won her defamation case against Bauer Media in September last year.
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