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Federal prosecutors have evidence of Trump's participation in American Media Inc.'s payoffs of Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, a violation of election laws — New link at Wall Street Journal
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Press Secretary Sanders tweeted a video that experts say was altered and which made Jim Acosta's encounter with a White House intern appear more violent — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday night shared a video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta that appeared to have been altered …
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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
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump says “it could be others also” when asked how long Acosta will be suspended
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
CNN should sue the White House for taking away Jim Acosta's press pass under a false pretext, and press-rights groups and media outlets should join in
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Meredith sells Fortune magazine to Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon for $150M — The sale to Chatchaval Jiaravanon gives the business publication a new owner for the second time this year — Meredith Corp. MDP -4.70% said Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon has agreed …
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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Medium CEO Ev Williams says he will be raising more money; Medium has raised $132M, has 90M MAUs, and publishes 20K articles per day — - Ev Williams needs more money for Medium, which he says is still not profitable. — Medium has received $132 million from investors so far.
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@rafat, @duanekinsey and @jbenton, more at Techmeme »
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Leaked audio and screenshots show Axios dismiss criticism after it used a clip of Trump saying he would end birthright citizenship as a promo for its HBO show — “They hate ya cause they ain't ya,” one employee wrote. — Their weekly staff meeting had become a crisis debriefing …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET:
The New York Times is digitizing its 5-7M photo archive using Google AI to recognize text describing the photos and will use Google's storage services — Google's computer brains are helping The New York Times turn a historic archive of more than 5 million photos into digital data that'll appear …
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Digiday, Nieman Lab and Editor & Publisher, more at Techmeme »
Carmin Chappell / CNBC:
News Corp. reported mixed Q1 results with net income of $128M, up 47% YoY, on $2.52B in revenue, up 23% YoY but shy of estimates of $2.54B; ad revenue fell 7% — - News Corp. reported fiscal first-quarter earnings Wednesday that beat analysts' expectations for earnings but missed on revenue.
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@npfandos, Hill Reporter, The Wrap and News Corp
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
E. W. Scripps reports Q3 revenue of $303M, up 51% YoY; political ad revenue reached $140M, up 86% from 2014 midterms — The E.W. Scripps Co. swung to a third quarter profit as revenues were boosted by local political ad sales revenue from Katz Broadcasting, acquired a year ago.
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MediaPost, MediaPost and PR Newswire
Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: WarnerMedia has approached NBCU about a partnership that would include licensing films or TV shows as it prepares for its new streaming service — AT&T's WarnerMedia has approached Comcast's NBCUniversal to discuss ways of working together, including about licensing films or TV shows …
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@benmullin, Business Insider and CNBC
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Disney is taking a $157M writedown on its $400M investment in Vice Media; investment in December 2015 reportedly gave Disney 10%, at a valuation of $4B-$4.5B — - Disney wrote in its fourth-quarter earnings report that it plans to write down its investments in Vice Media for $157 million.
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Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Disney says its new streaming service will be called Disney+ and will launch in the US in late 2019
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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
YouTube office in Playa Vista's Spruce Goose hangar opens to house office space and productions as part of a plan to build a 450,000-square-foot complex — Google has moved a step closer to transforming the historic Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista into a state-of-the-art office and production facility …
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Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Facebook has quietly released an app for iOS and Android called Lasso, designed to compete with TikTok, that lets users create short videos — The aging social media platform wishes to win teens over — Facebook has quietly released an app called Lasso that lets users create fun short videos designed …
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TechCrunch and @alexhern, more at Techmeme »
Hollywood Reporter:
Tribune Media reports Q3 net income of $54.1M vs. loss of $18.7M in Q3 2017, revenue up 11% YoY to $498M thanks to growth in retransmission and carriage fees — The company, which this summer scrapped its planned $3.9 billion takeover by Sinclair Broadcast Group, posted a lower impairment charge …
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