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Press Secretary Sanders tweeted a video that experts say was altered and which made Jim Acosta's encounter with a White House intern appear more violent — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday night shared a video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta that appeared to have been altered …

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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:

White House suspends Jim Acosta's press pass after he and Trump had a tense exchange; Sarah Sanders claims Acosta “placed his hands” on woman at press event — The White House has suspended the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta after President Trump took issue …

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

CNN should sue the White House for taking away Jim Acosta's press pass under a false pretext, and press-rights groups and media outlets should join in — CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta is a smart, tough reporter. He can also be a grandstander who seems to thrive on conflict with President Trump …

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@whca:
WHCA strongly objects to the White House pulling credentials to punish a reporter and urges White House “to immediately reverse this weak and misguided action”

Michelle Fields / The Atlantic:
Ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, accused of falsely saying Lewandowski assaulted her, says accusers apparently were projecting, as they aim at Acosta now

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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Meredith sells Fortune magazine to Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon for $150M — The sale to Chatchaval Jiaravanon gives the business publication a new owner for the second time this year — Meredith Corp. MDP -4.70% said Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon has agreed …

Discussion: Fortune, Variety, @alansmurray, Talking Biz News, Bloomberg and @jeffjohnroberts

Carmin Chappell / CNBC:

News Corp. reported mixed Q1 results with net income of $128M, up 47% YoY, on $2.52B in revenue, up 23% YoY but shy of estimates of $2.54B; ad revenue fell 7% — - News Corp. reported fiscal first-quarter earnings Wednesday that beat analysts' expectations for earnings but missed on revenue.

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Jessica Toonkel / The Information:

Sources: WarnerMedia has approached NBCU about a partnership that would include licensing films or TV shows as it prepares for its new streaming service — AT&T's WarnerMedia has approached Comcast's NBCUniversal to discuss ways of working together, including about licensing films or TV shows …

Brent Lang / Variety:
Disney's Q4 beats with $2.3B net income on $14.3B revenue; cable/broadcast sales were nearly $6B, up 9% YoY, and its film studio earned $2.1B, up nearly 50% YoY

Discussion: Talking Biz News, Yahoo! Finance, FierceVideo, @mikalfm, MediaPost, CNBC, Broadcasting & Cable, AdExchanger, Multichannel News, Ad Age, Engadget and Stock Market News …

Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Disney says its new streaming service will be called Disney+ and will launch in the US in late 2019

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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:

YouTube office in Playa Vista's Spruce Goose hangar opens to house office space and productions as part of a plan to build a 450,000-square-foot complex — Google has moved a step closer to transforming the historic Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista into a state-of-the-art office and production facility …

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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:

Disney is taking a $157M writedown on its $400M investment in Vice Media; investment in December 2015 reportedly gave Disney 10%, at a valuation of $4B-$4.5B — - Disney wrote in its fourth-quarter earnings report that it plans to write down its investments in Vice Media for $157 million.

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Hollywood Reporter:

Tribune Media reports Q3 net income of $54.1M vs. loss of $18.7M in Q3 2017, revenue up 11% YoY to $498M thanks to growth in retransmission and carriage fees — The company, which this summer scrapped its planned $3.9 billion takeover by Sinclair Broadcast Group, posted a lower impairment charge …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, Variety, San Francisco Chronicle and Tribune Media Investor …

David Wood / Houston Chronicle:

A review of 744 Houston Chronicle stories by Mike Ward could not find 44% of the 275 people quoted; The Chronicle will retract eight stories and correct others — Action follows external review of former staff reporter accused of fabricating sources — On July 31, the Houston Chronicle published …

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Stephen Shankland / CNET:

The New York Times is digitizing its 5-7M photo archive using Google AI to recognize text describing the photos and will use Google's storage services — Google's computer brains are helping The New York Times turn a historic archive of more than 5 million photos into digital data that'll appear …

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Gabriel Arana / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at diversity in US newsrooms after they missed an ASNE goal set in 1979 to match the percentage of minorities in newsrooms with the population by 2000 — In 1979, the American Society of News Editors pledged that, by the year 2000, the percentage of racial and ethnic minorities …

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