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Twitter will exempt news organizations that meet certain requirements from its political and issue advertising policy, leaving their ad buys out of its archive — Twitter says news organizations can apply to be exempt from its political and issue advertising policy as a part of a larger update …
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A California man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Boston Globe staffers; prosecutors say he called employees the “enemy of the people” — BOSTON (AP) — A California man upset about The Boston Globe's coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump's attacks …
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BostonGlobe.com, Justice News, @tom_winter, CNNMoney, @patcunnane, Media Matters for America, @andylassner, Daily Wire and NBC News


Sources and recordings indicate that Trump and Cohen had plans to buy up all the dirt that National Enquirer and AMI had on Trump, dating back to the eighties — Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep …
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Spectator USA, Newser, New Republic, @zigmanfreud, @brucebartlett, @maggienyt, Slate, New York Post, CANADALAND, The Wrap, Mediaite, @waldojaquith, Fortune, Splinter, @rgoodlaw and Business Insider France


Trump's narrative of social media bias echoes his attempts to discredit mainstream media and could lead to the development of right-wing social media sites — President Trump, using more anecdote than evidence, is doing unto Google, Facebook and Twitter what he helped do to mainstream media …
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New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, The Verge, GeekWire, VICE News, CNNMoney, @cwarzel, Business Insider, The Week and BuzzFeed News, more at Techmeme »


Google News doesn't tinker with results for political reasons, but mainstream media's resources and standards are higher than those of conservative publications — Mainstream media organizations are better-resourced and do far more reporting than smaller, explicitly politicized outlets.
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The Next Web, @davidmarkrubin, @orrchris, Fox News, Wired and The Week

Antitrust regulations placed on Comcast's takeover of NBCU are set to expire; leaked DOJ letter says it'll still monitor Comcast's programming and distribution — Antitrust restrictions placed on Comcast Corp. after its takeover of NBCUniversal are due to expire in a few days.
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TVWeek.com, Multichannel News and FierceVideo


For $1.5M, Interview magazine is sold back to Peter Brant, who put it through bankruptcy liquidation to wipe out $3.3M in debts to former employees and others — Through Brant's legal maneuvering, Interview is set to relaunch under the same ownership and leadership after filing for liquidation.
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Memo: Vox Media reorganizes its ad sales staff into an enterprise team for big accounts and a growth team for new business — Digital media company will have one unit focused on big accounts and industry categories, and another on new business — Vox Media is reorganizing its sales force into an …
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@djbentley


CoinDesk has formed a new business unit called CoinDesk Productions to develop long-form documentaries and TV shows “rooted in crypto and blockchain technology” — CoinDesk is well-known as a news site covering everything happening with the blockchain and cryptocurrencies.


Writer and columnist Salena Zito, who profiled left-to-right Trump voters in 2016, repeatedly misrepresented GOP officials and Republican voters as swing voters — Is the populist whisperer of Trump Country full of crap? — You might not know who Salena Zito is off the top of your head …
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@jesseltaylor, @urbanachievr and Contemptor


Interview with Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson on moving some coverage to Insider.com and deepening Business Insider's reporting by hiring 47 new staffers — When Business Insider global editor in chief Nicholas Carlson joined what was then a fledgling site called Silicon Alley Insider in October 2008 …
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@talkingbiznews


Amazon's UK broadcast of US Open receives 1-star rating from 80% of customers who cite lack of replays, poor picture quality, and limited choice of courts — - Web reviews criticize lack of replay, poor picture quality — U.S. Open part of Amazon push into live sports broadcasting
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