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12:45 AM ET, January 12, 2021

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Memo: Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning US talk radio hosts, tells personalities to stop suggesting the election was stolen  —  After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America's largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik:
[Thread] Public radio stations have sent a protest to NYT after the collapse of Caliphate, citing actions of The Daily's Michael Barbaro, presence of Andy Mills  —  NEWS: Major public radio stations in Los Angeles, DC, Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, Pittsburgh etc send joint protest to NYT in fallout over collapse of “Caliphate” series. They cite “troubling” actions of “The Daily” host Michael Barbaro & presence of producer Andy Mills. /con't
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
In VOA speech, Secretary Pompeo says VOA too often demeans the US and that “It is not fake news for you to broadcast that this is the greatest nation” ever  —  - He says broadcaster isn't ‘Vice of America’ focused on wrongs  — Whistle-blowers at agency challenged speech aired globally
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
From June 15, 2015 to the day he was suspended from Twitter, Trump posted 2,520 anti-press tweets, more than one a day, peaking in the last year  —  By the time the social media platform Twitter permanently suspended his account on Jan. 8, 2021, President Donald Trump had posted 2,520 tweets …
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Washington Post:
As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Since 2016, Trump moved from giving a large number of TV interviews to relying more on an “I type, you listen” Twitter presence, a stage he tightly controlled
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox News will replace one of its only nighttime hours of news coverage with a right-wing opinion show, signifying a further shift toward incendiary programming  —  New York (CNN Business)Fox News Channel is removing one of its only nighttime hours of news coverage and replacing …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Profile of an ex-BuzzFeed employee who livestreamed the Capitol riot; hooked on going viral, he ran BuzzFeed's Vine and Twitter before joining Milo Yiannopoulos  —  At BuzzFeed, we followed the signals of social media.  A young employee followed them all the way to Charlottesville and Capitol Hill.
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The informal image on Vogue's print cover of VP-elect Kamala Harris draws criticism for lacking respect, authority, and grandeur  —  The nation's first female vice president elect has been photographed for the cover of February's Vogue magazine and a vocal chorus on social media is displeased with the images.
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
After laying off half its staff in Feb. 2020, Protocol's president says it had 7M unique visitors last year and is planning an international expansion  —  Protocol, like most media companies in the spring of 2020, took a hit — and one that was especially acute just months past launching in February.
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The Guardian:
UK TV streaming customers can no longer stream live sports, like the Premier League, when visiting the rest of Europe as the Brexit transition period ends  —  UK customers of TV streaming services can no longer watch live sport, including Premier League football, when visiting the rest of Europe …
Discussion: @missregardless
Ryan Ori / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago Tribune to move out of its downtown Prudential Plaza office to a printing facility north of downtown, three years after leaving Tribune Tower  —  The Chicago Tribune and its parent company will relocate out of Prudential Plaza at the end of this month, leaving the city's largest newspaper without …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN announces new assignments: Kaitlan Collins will be chief WH correspondent and Jim Acosta will be chief domestic correspondent and have a weekend anchor role  —  New York (CNN Business)Some of the most respected faces of CNN's marathon election coverage are being promoted to more prominent roles …
 
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South China Morning Post:
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
News orgs may be forced to turn over their unpublished images and videos of the Capitol siege since federal crimes are not protected by a federal shield law