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AT&T has completed its $85.4B acquisition of Time Warner — AT&T Inc. has completed its acquisition of Time Warner Inc., bringing together global media and entertainment leaders Warner Bros., HBO and Turner with AT&T's leadership in technology and its video, mobile and broadband customer relationships.
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Oprah Winfrey signs multiyear deal for new original programs with Apple; Winfrey is expected to have an on-screen role as host and interviewer — Oprah shares her secrets to success with graduates — Apple has signed Oprah Winfrey to a multiyear deal for new original programs.
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Lauren Johnson / Business Insider:
Flipboard's self-service program and human editors have made the app popular with publishers who have seen traffic soar; Flipboard traffic for VF rose 719% YoY — - Publishers are seeing a surprising web traffic spike from Flipboard, thanks to a recent tweak that sends loads of hits to their websites.
Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Sources: AMI has purchased In Touch, Life & Style, and Closer from Bauer Media; it now owns all celebrity weeklies aside from People — American Media Inc. has tightened its grip on the celebrity magazine market. — Page Six has learned that AMI has purchased In Touch, Life & Style and Closer from German publisher, Bauer.
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New Yorker:
In interview, Baquet and Haberman say Trump's hostility toward the NYT stems from his wish for establishment approval, explain the NYT's use of the word “lie” — Just a month into his Presidency, Donald Trump called the news media “the enemy of the American people.”
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Fayaz Bukhari / Reuters:
Unidentified gunmen killed Syed Shujaat Bukhari, the editor of the Rising Kashmir newspaper, in India's Kashmir on Thursday — SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a prominent newspaper editor and two security guards in India's Kashmir on Thursday, police said.
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Colin Deppen / The Incline:
Longtime Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers says he was fired after going public with claims the paper rejected cartoons for political reasons — Rob Rogers said he felt editorial management was trying to turn him into a cartoonist he doesn't want to be before he was fired today …
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Tensions during the short White House press briefings build as credibility issues become increasingly glaring and led to an outburst and an insult on Thursday — A series of outbursts in Thursday's White House briefings follows weeks of increasing strain. — Weeks of escalating strain …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Refinery29, Washington Post, CommonWealth Magazine and Washington Post
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Quartz launching its first weekly TV show Facebook Watch this summer, “Quartz News”, a show about the global economy complemented by its bot — Quartz will be one of the 20 publishers launching a new Facebook Watch series this summer, with a new show about the global economy called …
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
PureWow owner to launch One37pm, a site for men focused on pop culture and entrepreneurship with no negative stories or wall between advertising and editorial — - After buying the women's lifestyle media brand PureWow in 2017, Gary Vaynerchuk's company is launching its first media brand under the Gallery Media Group umbrella.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
At Mirror Awards ceremony, WaPo journalist Irin Carmon, who won for coverage of Charlie Rose, says, “The stories that we have been doing are about a system.” — The Mirror Awards, handed out today by the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, honored stories including investigations …
Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast has received European Union clearance for its £22B takeover bid for European pay TV giant Sky — The European Commission gives the U.S. cable giant the green light after having in 2017 also cleared 21st Century Fox to complete a deal. — U.S. cable giant and NBCUniversal owner Comcast …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
BBC director of news and current affairs argues there is public interest in covering reality show Love Island to reach under-35 demographic amid criticism — The BBC's director of news and current affairs has argued there is a public interest in the corporation covering reality programme Love Island in its online news output.
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