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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's New York office was evacuated on Wednesday after a suspicious package was discovered in the mailroom — A CNN reporter said that authorities believe the package contains a real bomb, though the situation is under control. — CNN's Time Warner Center office was evacuated on Wednesday …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Jeff Zucker criticizes White House after bomb incident: “a total and complete lack of understanding” about the seriousness of continued attacks on media — The executive criticized the White House's attacks on media after the network was forced to evacuate after a bomb threat.
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Memo: New York Times has been in touch with local authorities about the CNN bomb scare and is increasing security around mailed packages — Times leadership also told employees in an internal memo that additional precautions would now be taken with mail delivered to the building following bomb scare
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Megyn Kelly, with a reported annual salary of about $20M, has been in talks with NBC execs about winding down her morning show by the end of the season — The anchor had met with network executives to discuss covering more news and politics. — Megyn Kelly is expected to wind …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC News announces its streaming news service, NBC News Signal, will launch in mid-2019, with shows now available on NBCNews.com, PlutoTV, YouTube, and Twitter — NBC News is joining the parade of traditional news outlets trying to capture the interest of a rising generation of news junkies …
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Pew Research Center:
Pew study: younger people in the US are better than older people at telling factual news statements from false opinions — While some say wisdom comes with age, younger Americans are better than their elders at separating factual from opinion statements in the news, according to a new analysis from Pew Research Center.
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Frank Catalano / GeekWire:
Factal, created by three founders of the Breaking News Twitter service that ended in 2016, launches to give companies verified fast news for a subscription fee — Factal, which provides incident and news alerts for corporate users, announced Tuesday that it's started round-the-clock global coverage …
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Snap hires two to replace CSO Imran Khan: Jeremi Gorman, from Amazon, leading advertising, and Jared Grusd, CEO of HuffPost, handling content and development — One of the new hires is from Amazon — the third former Amazon exec Snap has hired this year. — Snap has found a replacement …
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Elizabeth Hewitt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with Sarah Kliff of Vox on building a database of US emergency room bills from readers to enhance her reporting on health care costs — It started with a Band-Aid. A $629 Band-Aid. — A medical bill emailed to Vox senior policy correspondent Sarah Kliff got her interested …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Dash Radio, with 400+ shows and 75 stations, announces it has 10M monthly listeners and has raised $8.8M; Warner Bros. chairman and others join its board — For Dash Radio founder Scott Keeney, streaming music and radio are two very different things. On the streaming side …
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Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
After a speech on privacy from Tim Cook, former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos calls out multiple tech media outlets for ignoring Apple's anti-privacy moves in China — - Former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos said on Twitter Apple needs to “come clean” about how it blocks ways …
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Pandora announces it expects to close its deal with SiriusXM in the first quarter of 2019, following the end of a “go-shop” period of discussions with others — Pandora has ‘gone shopping’ for another potential buyer under a provision of its $3.5bn agreement with SiriusXM.
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