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Brian Stelter / CNN:
White House backs down from legal fight, restoring Jim Acosta's press pass and issuing rules for press briefing behavior, including one question per journalist — (CNN)The White House has issued a new warning to CNN's Jim Acosta, saying his press pass could be revoked again at the end of the month.
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
BuzzFeed is debuting a membership model, offering exclusive newsletters and content for $5/month, as CEO Peretti suggests site could merge with rival publishers — Jonah Peretti, the chief executive, says his company could eventually merge with other online publishers in order …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Source: BuzzFeed's commerce division has generated $50M in sales this year, as it develops millennial-targeted product inventions for firms like Maybelline — - Commerce division has generated $50 million in sales this year — Media company has invented products for Scotts and Maybelline
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WHCA:
The White House Correspondents' Association announces that writer and biographer Ron Chernow will headline its 2019 dinner — The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is pleased to announce that Ron Chernow, one of the most eminent biographers of American presidents and statesmen …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Journalists can avoid spreading Trump's infectious lies via headlines and tweets by abstaining from amplifying or by adding context — Journalists have become complicit in spreading the president's falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Here's how they can do better. — Staff writer at The Atlantic
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Daniel Dale / Washington Post:
Fact-checking Trump, who tells the same lies, is easy: he invents unnamed people, claims records he hasn't broken, and inflates numbers
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Pandora Premium comes to Amazon's Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show, offering the ability to request single songs, whole albums, and custom playlists — Pandora is bringing its paid premium tier to Amazon's Echo speakers. The Oakland, Calif.-based music service announced Monday that owners of Amazon's Echo …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Publishers gear up to lobby for the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act so they can jointly bargain with tech platforms without violating antitrust law — The news industry is readying a lobbying push with a straightforward, but audacious request: Please let us collude against Google and Facebook.
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Eight parliaments are now demanding Zuckerberg answer questions about fake news and more, as Brazil, Latvia, and Singapore join a UK-led grand committee — Facebook's founder is facing pressure to accept an invite from eight international parliaments, with lawmakers wanting to question …
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Marty Swant / Adweek:
iHeart, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, acquires programmatic ad startup Jelli to expand its digital ad options — Jelli is coming in-house — iHeartMedia is acquiring the programmatic advertising startup Jelli to help it expand its digital advertising capabilities.
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Amanda Hess / New York Times:
Social media and the internet have led to endless sequels, prequels, reboots, and remakes, which have turned storytelling into infinite “content” — The age of the sequel is over. Now it's the age of the sequel to the sequel. Also the prequel, the reboot, the reunion …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Facebook has announced it's donating £4.5M to fund 80 local newspaper jobs across the UK over the next two years, subsidising the cost of trainee reporters — Social media firm to finance trainee ‘community’ journalists scheme — Facebook will donate £4.5m to fund 80 local newspaper jobs …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Analysis of closed-captioning data from cable news channels confirms that California wildfires get much less cable TV coverage than hurricanes — One of the imbalances that exists in any news coverage is that an anticipated event can spawn a massive amount of speculation while coverage of the event itself is more constrained.
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