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6:50 PM ET, June 27, 2018

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New York Times:
Sources: ex-Fox News Co-President Bill Shine was offered role of White House Communications Director by Trump, announcement expected soon  —  WASHINGTON — Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive who was close to Roger E. Ailes, the network's ousted chairman, is expected to be offered the job …
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Source: Fox News host Sean Hannity has been lobbying Trump to hire Bill Shine as White House communications director for several months  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and Bill Shine have had several serious discussions in recent days about him becoming the next communications director …
Discussion: Mediaite
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Ocasio-Cortez's win took mainstream publications like the NYT by surprise but progressive outlets like The Intercept had been covering the race for months  —  See moment Ocasio-Cortez realized victory  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a brand new name to most voters.
Will Oremus / Slate:
Following changes to Facebook News Feed, Slate's traffic dropped 87% from 28M in January 2017 to 4M in May 2018  —  The social giant is retreating from the news business.  It's been a painful transition for publications that had come to depend on it—including Slate.
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Wall Street Journal:
Source: Comcast is exploring tie-ups with private equity firms or strategic partners to get access to capital in case bids for Fox assets reach $90B  —  Company looks to private-equity investors, strategic partners  —  Comcast Corp. CMCSA -1.03% is exploring tie-ups with private-equity investors …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Daily Beast launches a membership program, Beast Inside, priced at $100/year, offering readers access to a newsletter, podcast, crime series, more  —  The Daily Beast is creating a membership program, becoming the latest example of a publication to try to drum up new revenue from readers.
Discussion: Axios, MediaPost, The Daily Beast and Adweek
Marlee Baldridge / Nieman Lab:
Survey of broadcast TV and radio: women are better represented in TV newsrooms, but percentage falls in bigger markets; radio less diverse in 2017 than in 2016  —  While more women are taking on leadership roles in radio and TV, fewer people of color are working in radio and TV is nowhere near representative.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Sources: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dined with and consulted Ted Cruz, Mercedes Schlapp, Sean Hannity, and others to assuage complaints of liberal bias  —  Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms — and sought to rile voters …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The Washington Post dismisses a reporter who was in her initial probation period for inadequately attributing material and parroting sentences from others  —  The Washington Post has dismissed a reporter for inadequately attributing material and closely parroting sentences from other publications …
Discussion: The Wrap
Sridhar Ramaswamy / The Keyword:
Google rebrands AdWords as Google Ads, consolidates enterprise tools as Google Marketing Platform, and unifies publisher monetization tools as Google Ad Manager  —  We launched AdWords nearly 18 years ago with a simple goal—to make it easier for people to connect online with businesses.
Greg Dool / Folio:
Endeavor Business Media, led by former SouthComm Business Media CEO Chris Ferrell, acquires SouthComm's 17 B2B magazines, affiliated web sites, and events  —  Chris Ferrell, Patrick Rains and company are returning to SouthComm, Inc.—or, perhaps more accurately, SouthComm is returning to them.
Discussion: Nashville Post
 
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
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Ben Munson / FierceCable:
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Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live
 
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