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8:00 AM ET, August 6, 2017

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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News suspends Eric Bolling while it investigates reports that he sent lewd photos to female colleagues  —  Fox News has suspended Eric Bolling following the report last night about allegations he send lewd photos to female colleagues.  —  Mediaite received the following statement from Fox News:
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the DoJ is reviewing its policy on media subpoenas as part of a crackdown on leaks  —  “We will not allow rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country," the attorney general said Friday.  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Leaks must be handled with care, but they're necessary, and leakers and journalists who depend on them should be honored, not jailed  —  Ever since taking office, President Trump has been condemning leaks, leakers and the journalists they leak to.  —  “I've actually called the Justice Department …
Discussion: @adamgoldmannyt and @sangernyt
Trevor Timm / Columbia Journalism Review:
As pundits decry leaks of transcripts of the president's calls with foreign leaders, it is clear that news value and public interest outweigh any damage  —  The Washington Post made waves on Thursday when it published the full transcripts of President Trump's erratic phone calls with the leaders …
Ken Doctor / TheStreet:
Six major US newspaper companies demand that LexisNexis stop distributing their content to media monitoring organizations  —  Six major U.S. newspaper companies have demanded that LexisNexis, a major aggregator and distributor of news content, stop business practices that the publishers …
Wall Street Journal:
Google is working on Stamp, a Snapchat-like feature based on AMP with stories findable in search and on publisher sites, is talking with Vox, CNN, WaPo, more  —  ‘Stamp’ media product is based around company's ‘AMP’ mobile web pages  —  Google is developing technology to let publishers …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Columbia Journalism School is launching a new master of science in data journalism, the school's fourth degree, for just just under $100K  —  Say a highly-placed source has a mountain of incriminating data they want to make public.  Who are they going to send it to?
Discussion: @kreissdaniel and Journalism News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Trump's senior policy adviser Stephen Miller under consideration for White House communications director, but he isn't the top contender  —  Stephen Miller, the Trump senior policy adviser who just tangled on-camera with CNN's Jim Acosta, is under consideration for White House …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, The Hill and Mediaite
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Radio network Entercom is buying 45% of Dgital Media, a podcast producer whose roster includes political shows like Pod Save America  —  The broadcaster is taking a 45 percent stake in the startup.  —  Earlier this week, podcast startup Gimlet raised $15 million — which gave us the opportunity …
Harun Maruf / Voice of America:
Somalia's National University to reopen its journalism school for the first time in 26 years, with classes beginning as soon as next month  —  Being a journalist in Somalia carries both risk and reward.  The risk comes from al-Shabab militants and other armed groups who have killed …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Brown Sugar, a streaming video service for blaxploitation films and similar fare, launches a channel on Roku  —  Brown Sugar, the streaming video service that bills itself as being “like Netflix, only blacker,” officially launched a channel on Roku streaming devices Friday.
Discussion: Multichannel News
 
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Dani Deahl / The Verge:
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David Uberti / Splinter:
Slate management calls for second union vote, with paper ballots and run by the NLRB; organizers agree on vote, but want it run by a private third party
Silvia Killingsworth / The Awl:
The Awl has migrated from Medium back to WordPress, its former content management system
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Teresa Mioli / Journalism in the Americas:
The Buenos Aires Herald, one of the last English-language newspapers in Latin America, is closing after 140 years in print
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Maria Elena Salinas is leaving Univision as an evening news anchor after more than three decades on the air