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CNBC:
Sean Hannity is revealed as Michael Cohen's third client after a judge orders his name released — - The FBI on April 9 raided the office and residences of President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen. — Prosecutors want to begin reviewing the files seized from Cohen …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Us Weekly dropped a story around 2013 on alleged affair between Donald Trump Jr. and Aubrey O'Day after legal threats from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen — Federal probe looks closely at money flowing in and out of Essential Consultants — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney …
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ThinkProgress, @rebeccaballhaus, The Week, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Slate, @paperhaus, @ltheresistance, @scottjshapiro, Jezebel, The Hill, @amy_siskind, Mediaite, TMZ.com and The Wrap
Daniel Brown / Business Insider:
Russian journalist Maxim Borodin, who wrote about the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria, has died after falling from his apartment balcony — - Maxim Borodin, 32, died at a hospital on Sunday after falling from his fifth-floor balcony in Yekaterinburg on Thursday.
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BBC, @dionnissenbaum, @joyce_karam, @noclador, @waynetrackerag and National Post
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Polina Rumyantseva, the editor in chief of Novy Den - where Russian journalist Maksim Borodin worked - says she does not believe his death was a suicide — Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin of Yekaterinburg has died of injuries sustained on April 12 when he fell from the window of his fifth-floor apartment.
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New York Post, VICE News, @apolyakova, @jaynordlinger, @jimsciutto, @nprscottsimon, @gaylelemmon, Christina Yuin and @rferl
Joseph Otterson / Variety:
ABC News' interview with former FBI Director James Comey averaged 9.8M viewers, far below the 22M who tuned in for 60 Minutes' interview with Stormy Daniels — ABC News' interview with former FBI Director James Comey did well in the Sunday overnight ratings but failed to nab the number one spot.
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TVNewser, The Wrap, Mediaite, The Wrap, The Wrap, The New York Observer, Broadcasting & Cable, Mediaite, ABC News and The Gateway Pundit
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Report for America, a nonprofit organization modeled after AmeriCorps, aims to install 1,000 journalists in understaffed newsrooms by 2022 — A group of journalists have decided to do something about the diminution of newsrooms at the local level. They're making reporting part of a national service program.
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@katchow, @connieschultz, @robbyerswv, Alec MacGillis, @mattdpearce, @cwetterich, @tommy_robb, @mcclatchy and @kenyabradshaw
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The New York Times and New Yorker magazine share Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on sexual harassment — The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine won the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for their reporting on sexual harassment that ushered in a reckoning …
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New York Times, Poynter, @learmonth and pulitzer.org
Julie Reynolds / The Nation:
A look at how Alden Capital is literally bleeding Digital First Media dry, with $248.5M of newspaper employees' pensions invested in Alden funds — Stop Alden Global Capital before it kills again. — The rebellion last week by The Denver Post's editorial board against newspaper's hedge-fund owners …
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@thenation, @drewmagary, @julia_sci, @craigtimes and @aaschapiro
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Profile of Dan Scavino, The White House's social media director and the only man that Trump trusts with his Twitter account — Unraveling the mystery of the inscrutable White House social media director, whose job is to help @realDonaldTrump stay unpresidential.
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The Week, @melissaryan, @nytimes, @crewcrew, @maggienyt and @cwarzel
BBC:
Detective testifies he felt “forced” into giving the BBC advance notice of a raid on singer Cliff Richard's home in 2014 sexual assault case — Police felt “forced” into giving the BBC advanced notice of their 2014 raid on Sir Cliff Richard's home, a former detective has told the High Court.
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Press Gazette, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Sky News
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
How freelance reporter Greg Donahue uncovered the life of Ron Porambo, a journalist who reported on the underworld of America before turning to a life of crime — RON PORAMBO WAS A JOURNALIST. He was an author and a visionary. He was also a robber and killer.
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@atavistmag, @cjr, @cjr and @jon_allsop
Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Kevin Feeney, who penned the first profile of Facebook as a college journalist at the Harvard Crimson in 2005 and now works for a real estate firm — Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moscovitz, co-founders of Facebook, in 2004. Photo: Justine Hunt/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.
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@elongreen and @jswatz