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Ted Johnson / Variety:
NBC deletes tweet that appeared to endorse Oprah Winfrey as a 2020 presidential candidate, says it was posted by a third-party agency for NBC Entertainment — WASHINGTON — NBC removed a tweet sent from the network's main account that appeared to endorse the idea of an Oprah Winfrey candidacy in 2020.
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Burlington Free Press:
Gannett fires Burlington Free Press editor after tweets about VT's proposal to add a third gender to driver licenses, saying he violated social media guidelines — Denis Finley, editor of the Burlington Free Press, left the company Monday evening. — Finley became embroiled …
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Associated Press:
Memo: Macmillan CEO John Sargent calls Trump's attempt to halt release of Wolff book “flagrantly unconstitutional”, says company will respond to legal letter — WASHINGTON (AP) — The author of an explosive new book that questions President Donald Trump's fitness for office …
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Viacom agrees to acquire eight-year-old influencer marketing company Whosay for an undisclosed amount, will focus on campaigns across digital platforms and TV — Media company plans to use shop to scale its branded content operation and generate incremental revenue
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Michelle Robbins / Search Engine Land:
Google announces that Google AMP cache will display publisher URLs and drop the Google AMP URL prefix in search results, starting in the second half of 2018 — Google announced today that they are well on their way to solving one of the most annoying (to publishers) “features” of AMP …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Telemundo to debut Noticias Telemundo, Mediodía, a midday national newscast on Jan. 22, will also livestream via mobile apps, its website, and social media — Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo said it would launch a new midday national newscast to its programming lineup as part …
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Facebook to host fact-checking partners in early February to discuss how to help them be more effective and increase impact — Criticized for not sharing data, the social network is calling its fact-checkers together to discuss a more open approach. — After months of criticism …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Samantha Barry is named editor of Glamour, becoming the first person with an exclusively digital and television background to lead a Conde Nast magazine — When Samantha Barry was growing up in Ireland, she and her family would gather around the television to watch the 6 o'clock news.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google News engineering director says an unintentional tech issue resulted in some sites being delisted over the past few days and is working on a fix — PSA: If you are a smaller news site that has suddenly discovered you've been removed from Google News, you are not alone — and a fix is coming from Google.
Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:
Twitter has quietly started verifying users again, after pausing verifications in November alongside a promise of a new authentication and verification program — Twitter, the magical social media platform where rules are implemented and changed as quickly as hyenas appear in the night …
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Right-wing writer Chuck Johnson files lawsuit in California against Twitter claiming he was banned for his political views in violation of free speech rights — For years, the controversial right-wing activist Charles C. Johnson has threatened to sue Twitter, which banned him in 2015.
Graham Ruddick / The Guardian:
The BBC has banned journalists who tweeted support for Carrie Gracie from presenting on-air segments about the gender pay row at the corporation — EHRC writes to corporation as journalists who publicly supported former China editor are told they cannot now report on gender pay row
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