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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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Sean Hannity / @seanhannity:
Sean Hannity denies Michael Cohen represented him or that he paid Cohen legal fees, says they briefly discussed legal questions — Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective.
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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
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
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The Pulitzer Prizes:
Full list of 2018 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism — Journalism Category Winners Finalists Public Service The New York Times, for reporting led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and The New Yorker, for reporting by Ronan Farrow For explosive, impactful journalism that exposed powerful …
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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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Dave Krieger / Free Press:
Boulder Daily Camera editorial page editor asks for a buyer to rescue the newspaper from Alden Global Capital but is blocked from publishing plea at his paper — Editor's note: An early draft of this editorial was submitted to the Daily Camera editorial board Friday morning, April 13, 2018 …
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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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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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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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Laharee Chatterjee / Reuters:
Netflix reports revenue of $3.7B in Q1, up 40.4% YoY, and 7.41M global net adds, up 50% YoY, ahead of its 6.35M forecast, shares jump 6%+ in after hours trading — (Reuters) - Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) added more international subscribers than expected in the first quarter as a slate of original shows including …
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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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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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Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
Mixcloud, an audio streaming platform for long-form content, raises $11.5M led by WndrCo in its first-ever round; ex-DreamWorks President Ann Daly joins board — Mixcloud, the London startup that offers an audio streaming platform designed for long-form content, has closed its first-ever funding round, TechCrunch has learned.
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