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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump called Jim Acosta a “rude, terrible person”, as an aide tried to wrestle the mic from Acosta, and told April Ryan to “sit down” during press conference — “CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them,” Trump told Acosta during a post-election news conference on Wednesday.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
During a nearly 90-minute event, Trump repeatedly berated reporters for asking about his work, ending with, “It's called ‘earned media’ — it's worth billions” — President Trump struck a note of cheer after he arrived at the podium in the White House's East Room on Wednesday.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
White House suspends Jim Acosta's press pass after he and Trump had a tense exchange; Sarah Sanders claims Acosta “placed his hands” on woman at press event — The White House has suspended the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta after President Trump took issue …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media plans to shrink its staff by up to 15% and cut its number of digital verticals by at least half; company is on track to lose $50M+ this year — Workforce reduction will happen through hiring freeze and attrition — Vice Media plans to shrink its workforce …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Tanzanian authorities have detained two staffers of the Committee to Protect Journalists; CPJ executive director calls for their immediate release — Authorities in Tanzania should immediately release Angela Quintal, Africa program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish revenue was $3.4B in Q3, down from $3.58B YoY, and pay-TV subscribers fell about 341K, as Dish's Charlie Ergen says AT&T is using HBO as an economic weapon — Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen blasted AT&T for demanding unreasonable terms from the pay-TV distributor for HBO …
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New York Times:
Fox News, working with a different set of voter data to the other networks, was the first to tell viewers that Democrats would win the House — Get live election analysis and real-time results. — By 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Van Jones of CNN had called the midterm elections “heartbreaking” …
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Erin Nyren / Variety:
Hollywood producer Jason Blum was booed off stage at Israel Film Festival for criticizing Trump, with one reality TV star attempting to remove him — With the midterm elections heavy on everyone's mind, Jason Blum was booed offstage at the Israel Film Festival, where he was being honored …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Comcast aims to ship a home hub with a voice-enabled remote next year for broadband-only subs that aggregates streaming apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime — - Comcast is planning to debut a product to broadband-only customers that will allow them to aggregate certain streaming apps, such as Netflix and Amazon Video.
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Henry Farrell / Washington Post:
Q&A with Harvard's Yochai Benkler, on the political consequences of US media and why Fox News is five times more influential than Facebook for the right — Yochai Benkler, Rob Faris and Hal Robert, three scholars affiliated with Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, have a new book …
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Axios expects its annual revenue to double YoY to $20M+ in 2018 and still plans to launch a subscription product but likely not by the end of 2018 — Axios remains in no rush to release the high-end subscription product that the news publisher publicly discussed months before the company's January 2017 launch.
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Associated Press:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 — LONDON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a request to appear before an international parliamentary committee delving …
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