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9:35 AM ET, April 2, 2019

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Tom Feran / Plain Dealer:
Cleveland daily paper The Plain Dealer has laid off 14 unionized newsroom staff, mostly reporters, as part of its December announcement to cut 29 jobs  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Plain Dealer on Monday laid off 14 newsroom employees as part of a staff reduction first announced in December.
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Months before The New Yorker published allegations of sexual harassment against CBS News' Jeff Fager, the Washington Post had the story but didn't publish it  —  The afternoon of March 7, 2018, was go time, or so we believed.  Inside a glass huddle room at the Washington Post …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Janine Gibson, who left her role as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News UK in January, has joined the Financial Times as special projects editor  —  Janine Gibson, who left her role as Buzzfeed UK editor-in-chief in January, has been appointed as an assistant editor at the Financial Times.
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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Sources: Bianna Golodryga, who joined “CBS This Morning” as a co-anchor less than six months ago, has been cut from the show by Susan Zirinsky  —  The new boss at CBS News, Susan Zirinsky, reportedly thinks the morning news show's four anchors are too many.
Ruth Eglash / Washington Post:
Israeli watchdog says it found a network of suspicious social media accounts meant to disrupt and influence elections on behalf of PM Netanyahu's campaign  —  JERUSALEM — When Ziv Knobler arrived at work Monday, he said, he was surprised to find an image of his Twitter account featured …
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have acquired the TV rights to journalist Susan Orlean's non-fiction bestseller “The Library Book”  —  Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, in association with Brillstein Entertainment, have acquired the TV rights to Susan Orlean's best-seller …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Apple tried hard to sign up The New York Times and WaPo to Apple News+, was flexible on some terms but wanted the papers' entire content offerings  —  The Times and Post resisted Eddy Cue's hard sell ("We'll make you the most-read newspaper in the world.")
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Tom Conrad, ex-Snap VP of product and ex-Pandora CTO, has joined mobile video startup Quibi to lead product and customer support, reporting to CEO Meg Whitman  —  Tom Conrad has joined Jeffrey Katzenberg's Quibi to lead product and customer support, becoming the latest addition …
Damon Beres / OneZero:
Q&A with Taylor Lorenz, “internet whisperer” of The Atlantic, on “artisanal” apps, not feeling bad about being on her phone 24/7, and muting notifications  —  Talking bespoke apps and ‘moon playlists’ with the tech journalist and meme whisperer … aylor Lorenz gets the internet.
Peter Kafka / Recode:
A year after his announcement that Facebook would feature less news, Zuckerberg says he wants to create a tab to surface quality news, could pay publishers  —  The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
 
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Charlotte Eyre / The Bookseller:
Publisher HarperCollins has acquired exclusive global rights to publish children's books based on Netflix series “Our Planet”, which is launching this weekend
Erin Lee Carr / The Cut:
In her forthcoming memoir, documentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr discusses the night her father, beloved New York Times media critic David Carr, passed away
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed a petition asking a US district judge to rule that grand jury material in Mueller report can be released
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Lesley McKenzie, deputy editor of C Magazine, has been named as managing editor of Variety, reporting to Editor-in-Chief Claudia Eller
Reuters:
Sources: as part of UAE's Project Raven, 9+ ex-NSA staffers helped hack phones of Al Jazeera's Chairman, a BBC Arabic host, and other journalists
Willa Paskin / Slate:
While Sean Hannity promotes “deranged” factual interpretations on Fox News, Rachel Maddow's show also indulges in conspiracy theories around Mueller and Trump
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Critics comparing Mueller coverage to that of the Iraq war have based their argument on cherry-picked examples and a false assumption about the Steele dossier
 

 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

David Pierce / The Verge:
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished

 
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