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Sean Spicer resigns as White House Press Secretary; source says resignation is over Trump's appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director — WASHINGTON — Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned on Friday morning, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed …
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Sean Spicer, who served up falsehood as truth from the start, should have quit long ago and saved himself months of humiliation — There's something about Sean Spicer that inspires pity. He's had so much to deal with: The brutal “Saturday Night Live” skewerings.
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Profile of Anthony Scaramucci, new White House communications director and talkative Wall Street financier, brash New Yorker, and relentless promoter — President Trump's decision to bring Anthony Scaramucci into a top White House role represents a remarkable political ascension for the investment veteran …

Profile of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, named White House press secretary, a job that requires juggling a feisty White House press corps and a mercurial president — New White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was schooled in hardscrabble politics — and down-home rhetoric …

Reuters study: less than 50% of UK news consumers who got a story from social media or search could correctly name the news org that published it — British news consumers who get news via social media or search platforms are more likely to remember the platform where they accessed …

Source: Vice Media is laying off about 2% of its 3K employees across multiple departments as it looks to expand internationally and ramp up video production — Vice Media is laying off about 2% of its 3,000 employees across multiple departments while at the same time the company …
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Joseph Rago, a Wall Street Journal editorial writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for challenging Obama's health care policies, dies at 34 — Pulitzer Prize winner was known for his well-reported pieces and policy influence — Joseph Rago, a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer …
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Sources describe efforts by Google and big publishers to combat the ad fraud practice called spoofing on major ad exchanges, via ads.txt initiative — - The ad industry is trying to root out fraudulent digital ads. — Google has quietly been running tests with media companies such as CBS to gauge how bad the problem is.
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White House Correspondents' Association tightens its membership rules, leaving out Breitbart news, Mother Jones, and The Daily Signal — The White House press corps is culling its ranks, separating who's officially in the club and who isn't. — Officially out: Reporters for the likes of Breitbart News and Mother Jones magazine.
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An oral history of the NYT's public editor as told by the six who lived it, on anonymous sources, liberal bias, election coverage, more — Liz Spayd served as the final public editor for the Times. All of them spoke with CJR for our oral history. Photos by Andy Robinson.
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Interview with an anonymous NYT copy editor, who predicts that cuts to the editorial staff will make the quality of the paper go down — Tensions have been running high at The New York Times, where editorial staffers last month walked out in protest over plans to streamline …
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Sources: Sean Hannity will no longer receive the Media Research Center's William F. Buckley Award after Buckley's family expressed disapproval — Bernstein: ‘We are in a cold civil war’ — Fox News Channel star anchor Sean Hannity will no longer receive the conservative Media Research …
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