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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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Engadget, @hadas_gold, @lmoses, @campbell_brown, @jeffjarvis and Columbia Journalism Review, more at Techmeme »
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
A behind-the-scenes look at the North Korea summit and journalists' efforts to ask Kim Jong Un about denuclearization
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The Intercept, The Week, Jacobin, @realdonaldtrump and @anandwrites
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
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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