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8:40 AM ET, November 29, 2016

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
News outlets reported Trump's claim about millions voting illegally as if it were true  —  Newsrooms are still coming to grips with a soon-to-be-president able to distract and distort on Twitter.  —  NEW YORK On Sunday afternoon, Politico editorial director for digital Blake Hounshell rightly pointed …
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Laura Ingraham, currently under consideration for White House press secretary role, owns many websites including LifeZette, which frequently publishes fake news  —  The extraordinary phenomenon of fake news spread by Facebook and other social media during the 2016 presidential election …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Voter fraud claim had already been debunked by Snopes and Politifact, after being shared on Facebook 50K+ times, before Trump tweeted it  —  Fake news, we have learned over the past several weeks, is spread easily by profiteers, propagandists, and performance artists.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
AT&T's DirecTV Now streaming TV service launches Nov. 30 starting at $35/mo. for 60+ channels, up to $70/month for 120+ channels  —  [UPDATE: Channel lineup below the fold.]  —  AT&T has officially unveiled details about its upcoming streaming TV service called DirecTV Now.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Canada has lost about half of its journalists in the last decade, sources say, as government assesses future without country's two largest newspaper companies  —  Canada's press woes are bad enough unto themselves, but they also serve as a sign of earlier winter for the U.S. press.
Discussion: Reynolds Center and Politico
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
CNN acquires social-video startup Beme, co-founded by YouTube star Casey Neistat; app to be shut down, team to form a new media startup as an extension of CNN  —  With millions of people regularly tuning in to his YouTube video blogs every morning, Casey Neistat has a millennial fan base coveted by both marketers and media companies.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Report: Time Inc. board rejects buyout bid from Edgar Bronfman Jr. for $18 a share, which is an 18% premium over its Friday closing price of $13.80  —  Edgar Bronfman Jr. is making a bid to buy Time Inc., publisher of People, Time and Sports Illustrated, The Post has learned.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sling TV announces cloud DVR feature, launching beta in December, to take on Sony's PlayStation Vue, others  —  As competition between television streaming services heats up, Dish's Sling TV announced a new feature designed to better compete with rivals like Sony's PlayStation Vue and others …
The Guardian:
The Guardian has moved to HTTPS, partly to stop ISPs tracking what readers are reading, information the paper believes “may be used against them”  —  Our content has now been served over HTTPS for two months and we thought it was time to share some of the reasons, processes and challenges behind the project.
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed's chief marketing and chief creative officer, Frank Cooper, is leaving the company after about a year and a half  —  Mr. Cooper will depart after about 18 months with the digital media company  —  BuzzFeed's chief marketing and chief creative officer, Frank Cooper …
 
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Quartz has received a $240K Knight Foundation grant to launch the Quartz Bot Studio, a group focused on developing three bot-related projects this coming year
Discussion: @perryhewitt
Mark Challinor / INMA:
INMA plans for 2017: New distance learning initiative on best practices in media, new membership classifications for startups and universities, apps, and more
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Tucker Carlson will step down as Daily Caller EIC as he devotes himself to his evening Fox News show; he will maintain an ownership stake in the publication
Discussion: Mediaite
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Forbes Media partners with Advantage Media Group to launch book publishing unit, ForbesBooks
Ross Benes / Digiday:
Viral publishers like ViralNova, Distractify, and Upworthy are attracting fewer media buyers as they struggle with fraud, lose traffic