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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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Sinéad Baker / Business Insider:
Press Secretary Sanders tweeted what appears to be an Infowars video doctored to make Acosta's encounter with the White House intern appear more violent — - White House Press Secretary is accused of sharing a doctored video of CNN's Jim Acosta from far-right outlet Infowars.
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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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@whca:
WHCA strongly objects to the White House pulling credentials to punish a reporter and urges White House “to immediately reverse this weak and misguided action” — WHCA statement on White House decision on credentials. http://twitter.com/...
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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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Some experts say Facebook performed well for the midterms, but disinformation and false news still spread fast, requiring outsiders' monitoring and prodding — After an Election Day largely free of viral social media misinformation, and with little trace of the kind of Russian troll stampede …
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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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Khanyisile Ngcobo / iol.co.za:
Committee to Protect Journalists staffers Quintal and Mumo have been released following their arrest in Tanzania but their passports have not been returned — Johannesburg - CPJ's Africa program coordinator Angela Quintal and her colleague Muthoki Mumo have been released following their arrest in Tanzania …
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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Melynda Fuller / MediaPost:
Meredith announces Q1 revenue of $757M, up 90%+ YoY, with advertising-related revenues doubling YoY to $423M — Just last week, Meredith Corporation announced the finalization of its sale of Time magazine, the flagship property it acquired along with the rest of Time Inc.'s portfolio in January.
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Li Tao / South China Morning Post:
China's Xinhua News Agency launches “composite anchors”, which combine images and voices of human anchors with text via AI tech from internet company Sogou — - AI anchors have the ability to work 24 hours a day provided human editors keep inputting text into the system
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The Verge, Fast Company, xinhuanet.com, CNET, ChinaKnowledge and China Money Network, more at Techmeme »
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Sinclair reports Q3 revenue of $766M, up 18.9% YoY, while profits more than double YoY to $63.9M as political advertising offset the costs of a failed merger — Sinclair Broadcast Group's posted a big gain in profits after its acquisition of Tribune Media fell through …
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