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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Judge postpones his decision until Friday in CNN's preliminary hearing against the White House over Jim Acosta's press pass — (CNN)Lawyers for CNN and the Trump administration are awaiting an initial ruling on the network's federal lawsuit over press access to the White House.
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Deadline, Voice of America, @brianstelter, Jon Slattery and Washington Examiner
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CNN:
Responding to CNN's lawsuit, the Department of Justice says the White House can pick and choose which journalists it grants permanent press passes to — (CNN)The Justice Department responded to CNN's lawsuit over the revocation of Jim Acosta's press pass on Wednesday, saying in a court filing …
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CNN, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, @byrontau, @neal_katyal, @mmfa, @shermichael_, MediaPost, Variety, TIME and TVNewser
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox, ABC, NBC, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, First Look Media, Politico, EW Scripps, USA Today, and WaPo say they are filing amicus briefs supporting CNN in WH lawsuit — Fox News is endorsing CNN's legal effort to regain correspondent Jim Acosta's White House credentials.
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Mediaite, @erikwemple, The Daily Caller, TVNewser, @jbendery, Poynter, CBS News, The Hill, Politico, @jonathanwpeters, Washington Post, @zoetillman, @bloomberg, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, @zoetillman, Axios, Washington Post, @zipillinois, @maxwelltani, The Guardian, CNN, BuzzFeed News, Media Matters for America, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, @brianstelter, @davidfolkenflik and Hollywood Reporter
Kali Hays / WWD:
Sources: Seventeen magazine is cutting down its print edition from the current bimonthly schedule to special standalone issues starting next year — The 75-year-old title will no longer have a regular print schedule, as Hearst continues to change under its new magazines president.
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The week before the election, “caravan” was said 1,202 times on Fox and 834 times on CNN, but only 203 and 75 times on those same channels the week after — In the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, news of a migrant caravan moving through Mexico toward the United States dominated the airwaves.
Elizabeth Jensen / NPR:
NPR newsroom diversity report: 57% are women, 27% are people of color, up 2% YoY, largely due to rise in Latinx employees, which comprise 8% of staff — Having a diverse newsroom is crucial if NPR wants to tell stories that matter to an increasingly diverse country.
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@marcusryder, @hugobalta and @chiragwakaskar
Gerret Von Nordheim / European Journalism Observatory:
Study: analysis of 3M articles from 2004 to 2016 shows quotations of social media plateaued at the start of the decade but have increased in the last few years — It feels as if half the world usually sees Donald Trump's latest tweets - because the media quote them, comment on them and inadvertently help them to spread even further.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast makes Tubi, a free, ad-supported streaming video app with ~10K movies and TV shows, available to its Xfinity X1 customers, the third OTT service on X1 — Comcast is bringing Tubi's free, ad-supported service with almost 10,000 movies and TV show titles to its Xfinity X1 customers nationwide.
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The Wrap, MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable and Adweek
Eric Johnson / Recode:
Q&A with Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman on the site's role as a “high-end tabloid”, access journalism, and social media for reporters — The site's new Editor in Chief Noah Shachtman wants to take “full, big, considered swings” at the targets who deserve it.
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@oneunderscore__ and @jaredlholt
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Defy Media was brought down by its poor investments, rising debt, and a dependence on YouTube ad revenue after platforms like Go90 stopped buying content — Life was good for Defy Media in early 2017. The digital media company behind YouTube heavyweights such as Smosh and Clevver …
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@teamyoutube and @bmorrissey
New York Times:
National Book Award for nonfiction goes to Jeffrey C. Stewart, author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke; nominees included Adam Winkler and Sarah Smarsh — • Sigrid Nunez wins the fiction prize for “The Friend” — • Jeffrey C. Stewart has won the prize for nonfiction …
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@asymptotejrnl and HuffPost
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Jack Nicas, who covers Apple and other tech companies for The New York Times, describes the new tools and old-school methods he uses to cover Silicon Valley — Reporting on secretive technology companies sometimes means finding people who don't want to be found. Jack Nicas, who covers Apple, relies on some old-school methods.
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@gregcohn and @puiwingtam
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Latino-focused digital media company Mitu rehires Roy Burstin as CEO and raises $10M led by LEAP Global Partners — Mitu is still alive and kicking: The Hispanic digital-media company has brought back co-founder Roy Burstin as CEO and received an infusion of $10 million in new capital.
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Tubefilter, The Wrap and Deadline
Jay Rosen / Boing Boing:
Dutch media company De Correspondent launches membership drive for its US publication, The Correspondent, and hopes to raise $2.5M by December 14 — This is for everyone who follows me on social media, or who has read my press criticism. All my former students. Fans of my blog, PressThink.
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Nieman Lab, MediaPost, @the_corres, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, TechCrunch, The Guardian, @rcbregman, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, Press Gazette, Poynter and The Correspondent