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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
In a rare solo news conference, Trump made clear he is never more engaged than when he is sparring with the news media that he loves to say he hates — Sometime after he doubted the character of George Washington ("Didn't he have a couple things in his past?"), urged a wire-service reporter …
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Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books — Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove.
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AAP:
Justin Milne, chairman of Australian broadcaster ABC, resigns after reports he demanded journalists be fired because the government didn't like their stories — ABC chairman Justin Milne has resigned after reports he demanded journalists be sacked because the government didn't like their stories.
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox have decided to sell their shares in Sky to Comcast; Fox holds a 39% stake in Sky — Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox are selling their shares in Sky to Comcast, putting the US cable operator on course to take full control of the European media group.
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Stewart Clarke / Variety:
Comcast's bid for Sky values 21st Century Fox's 39% stake at about $15B
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Alison Weissbrot / AdExchanger:
AT&T consolidates its advertising businesses under the banner of Xandr, inks deals with Altice USA and Frontier to aggregate and sell their TV inventory — Two multibillion-dollar acquisitions and one Justice Department lawsuit later, AT&T's advertising and analytics unit finally has a name: Xandr.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
CollegeHumor launches Dropout, a subscription service for videos, comics, and chat initially costing $3.99/mo, serving as an alternative to YouTube distribution — CollegeHumor, the IAC-owned comedy website that's been around since 1999, was running into roadblocks in pushing the creative envelope.
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong calls for change in how people get news via social media: the “short attention span we're creating” is “very dangerous” — - Social platforms may have revolutionized how people get information, but they've also been criticized for spreading “fake news.”
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Missoulian:
Lee Enterprises reverses course, says former Gatehouse SVP Paul McArthur won't oversee four of Lee's Montana newspapers after controversy over Twitter account — A day after introducing a new publisher to oversee its western Montana newspapers, including the Missoulian, Lee Enterprises changed course.
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Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
New York magazine is partnering with a non-profit news site called The City, led by Daily News alum Jere Hester, to provide local news coverage of NYC — With the once robust metropolitan news coverage in New York dwindling, a new nonprofit website called The City is teaming up with New York magazine …
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
New online outlet The Salem Reporter joins local newspaper companies Pamplin and EO to form the Oregon Capital Bureau, a collaboration to cover state government — Four years ago, as the number of reporters covering statehouses continued shrinking, two news organizations started working together to cover state government in Oregon.
Kate Knibbs / The Ringer:
Inside the Chicago Tribune as it continues to struggle under parent company Tronc and faces an uncertain future amid talk of a sale — The media conglomerate formerly known as Tribune Publishing might yet find a savior (or several). But Tronc's ongoing troubles paint a larger picture …
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others sign up to the EU's Code of Practice, a form of voluntary self-regulation aimed at curbing the spread of fake news — The European Union's executive body has signed up tech platforms and ad industry players to a voluntary Code of Practice aimed at trying …
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