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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Hannity appears to have used legal services of two other Trump-linked lawyers: Victoria Toensing and Jay Alan Sekulow, who both have appeared often on his show — Sean Hannity has had no shortage of lawyers. In court on Monday, his name was disclosed as the third “mystery client” of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Ethicists raise questions about Sean Hannity's failure to disclose relationship with Michael Cohen, say being an “advocacy journalist” does not absolve him — Fox News host's failure to disclose his relationship with Trump attorney Michael Cohen puts his credibility on the line.
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Sean Hannity:
Hannity denies Michael Cohen represented him or that he paid Cohen legal fees, says they briefly discussed legal questions almost exclusively about real estate
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium news subscription service next year — Company integrating Texture purchase into Apple News offering — About 20 Texture staff were cut soon after Apple acquisition
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Neda Ulaby / NPR:
NPR newscaster Carl Kasell dies at 84 from complications of Alzheimer's disease after a lifelong career on air — Every weekday for more than three decades, his baritone steadied our mornings. Even in moments of chaos and crisis, Carl Kasell brought unflappable authority to the news.
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Fallout from data collection scandal has not spread much beyond Facebook to include other platforms because it is hard to pinpoint harm from privacy violations — It is nearly four weeks since the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted, and something surprising has happened. — Or rather, not happened.
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The Daily Beast:
Breitbart News gave Cambridge Analytica exclusive rights to resell its engagement data in 2016, former Cambridge Analytica employee tells UK Parliament — A former Cambridge Analytica director has claimed that the company had exclusive access to Breitbart's engagement data.
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Sebastian Murdock / Yahoo:
Parents of two Sandy Hook victims file lawsuits against Alex Jones and Infowars, claim they received death threats after he circulated conspiracy theories — Alex Jones has spent years claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School where a shooter killed 20 small children and six adults was faked.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Nate Silver and his politics and news site FiveThirtyEight will move to Disney-owned ABC News after five years with Disney's ESPN — Politics and news site Silver founded has been at ESPN for five years — Statistics guru Nate Silver is leaving ESPN, but he's staying under the Walt Disney Co. umbrella.
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Glynnis MacNicol / Hollywood Reporter:
Generational turnover and the rise of millennials among NY editors leads to a culture clash: “There's frankly distrust on both sides,” says HuffPost's Polgreen — Ignore the rising millennial class at your own risk: the elite of New York editors and writers is undergoing …
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Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed:
Facebook partners with Mumbai-based Boom on a pilot fact checking project of English-language content in Indian state of Karnataka, ahead of state elections — Facebook is finally going to start fact-checking news on its platform in India, its largest market with more than 240 million users.
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Kim Hart / Axios:
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn says she's leaving after 8+ years at the agency, a day after FTC's Terrell McSweeny, also an Obama nominee, announced retirement — Long-time Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn announced Tuesday that she will be leaving after more than eight years at the agency.
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Gustavo Arellano / Columbia Journalism Review:
The remaining staffers and new owner at LA Weekly say they've faced veiled threats and intimidation, as have the mag's partners, as a result of boycott action — Image via Flickr. — Newish LA Weekly editor Darrick Rainey and publisher Brian Calle run what is perhaps the most on-edge paper at this moment in American journalism.
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