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Gavin de Becker / The Daily Beast:
Bezos' security chief says AMI demanded he claim Bezos story didn't result from hacking or external forces, and says he's confident Saudis accessed Bezos' phone — The National Enquirer's lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking. — For 40 years, I've advised at-risk public figures …
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The Daily Beast:
AMI denies that the National Enquirer used another source besides Michael Sanchez for its Bezos report: “no involvement by any other third party whatsoever” — The National Enquirer's parent company said it had one and only one source for its blockbuster exposé of Jeff Bezos …
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@jennamc_laugh, @jennamc_laugh, Reuters, Business Insider and Page Six
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
The Federalist fires its writer Denise McCallister after a series of homophobic tweets — Internet famous “You were at my wedding, Denise” and now-former The Federalist blogger Denise McCallister tweeted her way out of a job Saturday when a Twitter feud quickly escalated into a homophobic screed.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
April Fools prank stories share many attributes with fake news stories, like using more first-person pronouns, and can help researchers better detect fake news — April Fool's. On Monday morning, be prepared for this year's assortment of April Fool's Day pranks across the web …
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Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Alex Jones of InfoWars, in a deposition, denies he had intentionally spread lies about Sandy Hook and rejects responsibility for Sandy Hook parents' pain — For all his dangerous talk about the Sandy Hook school shooting, Alex Jones couldn't even recall the date it happened.
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Rob Price / Business Insider:
Facebook says it “mistakenly deleted” some of Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts that were public and reported on, including a post about the Instagram acquisition — - Some old Facebook posts by CEO Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared, and the company says it “mistakenly deleted” them.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Survey: 19 out of 21 news organizations studied had no documented policies for preservation of their web content and none were preserving social media posts — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — This research report explores archiving practices and policies across newspapers, magazines, wire services …
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@michaelbolden, @spj_tweets and @fheinderyckx
David Ng / Los Angeles Times:
Writers Guild of America overwhelmingly votes for a new code of conduct for talent agents, aimed at curbing increasing conflicts of interest — The divide between Hollywood writers and their agents deepened on Sunday when members of the Writers Guild of America voted overwhelmingly in favor …
Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap:
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro returned to air Saturday night without mentioning the reason for the two-week absence of her show — Fox News host Jeanine Pirro returned to air Saturday night without mentioning the reason for the two-week absence of her show, “Justice With Judge Jeanine.”
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Britta Lokting / OneZero:
As cannabis gets legalized around US, High Times struggles to keep up with a changing culture, losing readers, money, and half of staff in the past few years — For decades, High Times was the flagship of cannabis culture. Now it's struggling to keep up.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
BBC says it wants to improve public perception around its news impartiality and will make fact-checking service Reality Check a more visible part of news output — Improving public perception around its news impartiality is one of the BBC's four priorities for the year ahead, according to its latest annual plan.
Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
Current and former MLB Advanced Media employees say the company has fostered a toxic and overly demanding work environment for years under poor leadership — On the second Tuesday of February, at 3:00 in the afternoon, around 40 employees of MLB Advanced Media—one arm of MLB's media empire …
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