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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
In March 2016, CNN's Jeff Zucker floated a weekly show for Trump and offered debate advice, according to audio of his chat with ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen — Zucker told Cohen of his fondness for Trump, who the CNN president described as ‘the boss’ — CNN president Jeff Zucker oversees …
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Trump campaign kicked out a NYT freelancer from a rally in Michigan; NYT says campaign refused to credential her, so she was attending as a member of the public — A Times correspondent wrote, “First for me: Trump campaign tracked me down from pics I tweeted and escorted me out.”
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
The Pentagon is drafting a formal memo rescinding its order to shut down Stars and Stripes by Sept. 30, following a Trump tweet vowing to continue funding — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department is rescinding its order to shut down the military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Twitter expands election misinfo policies, prohibiting misleading claims about results, “inciting unlawful conduct” to prevent peaceful transfer of power, more — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation …
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Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
A reconstruction of a series of errors that led to the NYT getting sued by Sarah Palin for an editorial on gun control — It was just before midnight, on June 14, 2017, when James Bennet, then the New York Times' editorial page editor, sent an anxious text to a Washington colleague. — “Are you up?
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Bijan Stephen / The Verge:
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer in August 2019, is back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site — He's got an exclusive, multiyear deal — Ninja's back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site.
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Google says it will remove Autocomplete suggestions that endorse or oppose a candidate or a party or make a voting claim, says it improved breaking news systems — Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google says it's taken a number of steps to improve the quality of information …
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Tom Ley / Defector:
Defector, the subscription-based sports blog created by former Deadspin staffers, formally launches — Welcome to Defector, an employee-owned sports and culture website brought to you by the former staffers of Deadspin. Let me tell you who we are, and how we got here.
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
RTDNA survey: Black staff at local news stations grew from 12% in 2019 to 13.3% in 2020, while Latinos fell to 10.9%; 17.4% of stations had POC news directors — A Radio and Television Digital News Association survey found the percentage of people of color in the TV news workforce increased by .7 points in 2020
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Megyn Kelly to launch production company Devil May Care Media, which will back podcasts and other shows on current events, starting with her own podcast — Megyn Kelly isn't on a mainstream news outlet at present, but that isn't going to keep her from broadcasting.
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India's Times Internet reports 67B page views, up from 47B last year, says it has 557M MAUs and 111M+ DAUs, with MX Player at 200M+ MAUs and Gaana at 185M MAUs — Times Internet said on Thursday it reaches more than 557 million active users in India each month and over 111 million users …
Vox Media:
Verge EIC Nilay Patel will host a new podcast, Decoder with Nilay Patel, a relaunch this fall of Kara Swisher's interview show, Recode Decode — The new podcast, a relaunch of Kara Swisher's award-winning interview show, Recode Decode, debuts this fall. Swisher will continue to host Vox Media's hit show Pivot with Scott Galloway.
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