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A look at Hannity's real estate empire, including apartment complexes bought with HUD help, a fact Hannity didn't mention when interviewing Ben Carson last year — Fox News host who said Trump's fixer ‘knows real estate’ has a portfolio that includes support from Department of Housing and Urban Development …
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Sean Hannity has routinely promoted a Georgia financial firm he co-owns via a shell company, even as the company was raising $13M in a round early this year — Hannity disguised his involvement via a shell company incorporated in Georgia — For months, Fox News's Sean Hannity …
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Washington Post, @annalecta, @scottmstedman and The Guardian


Profile of Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships; sources say she controls a $90M budget that will pay partners to make original news programs — It was another terrible day for Facebook and the company had dispatched Campbell Brown, its head of news partnerships, to do some damage control.


“Bernie TV”, or videos on Facebook Live and Twitter from Bernie Sanders' staff, lets the senator reach voters directly; his 2017 videos were viewed 800M+ times — For a brief moment in late October 2016, when Hillary Clinton was surfing on a six-point national lead over Donald Trump …
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How hate speech and misinformation spread on Facebook in developing countries like Sri Lanka, where reputable sources are scarce, leading to real-world violence — MEDAMAHANUWARA, Sri Lanka — Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house …
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Leaked AMI financials reveal $920M in debt, $204M in 2017 revenue, down 9% YoY; National Enquirer sales benefited more from anti-Hilary not pro-Trump, coverage — Tabloid owner American Media's debt has mushroomed while newsstand sales of its print publications are shrinking
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@lalpert1, @kylegriffin1 and Poynter


Trump lashes out at New York Times and reporter Maggie Haberman over Michael Cohen coverage, claims he doesn't speak to her despite granting many interviews — PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump vowed Saturday that his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, will not “flip” and cooperate …


Ex-Sinclair reporter Suri Crowe says she was disciplined by company management for failing to apply “balance” to climate change stories — Sinclair Broadcast Group executives reprimanded and ultimately ousted a local news reporter who refused to seed doubt about man-made climate change and …


How some TV stations are trying to reach new audiences, using apps, podcasts, AR/VR, and more amid ownership consolidation as profits and audiences erode — When the Rev. Billy Graham died in February, Raleigh-based WRAL-TV provided expansive coverage of the famed evangelist's life and legacy.
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Amy Chozick, the main NYT Clinton campaign reporter, reflects on covering Podesta's stolen emails and later feeling she had become a Russian intelligence tool — Covering Hillary Clinton's campaign from before it started to the very last moment. — Things were already looking bad when …

12th District Court of Appeals strikes down Texas law that made disclosing “revenge porn” unlawful, ruling it violates the First Amendment — Texas attorney Mark Bennett — instrumental in getting an unconstitutional “peeping tom” law tossed in 2014 — has scored another win …
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Former Iraq bureau chief for Reuters describes dealing with moral injury on top of his PTSD after two colleagues were shot dead by a US helicopter in 2007 — In 2016, I was treated in a psychiatric unit for PTSD after a career spent covering conflict and tragedy. Last July, I was back in Ward 17.