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9:00 AM ET, November 28, 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 …
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.
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Michael Wolff on Trump coverage: media failed to do its job, will need to stop being defensive and focus on reporting facts  —  At a time of media soul searching over the rise of Donald Trump, longtime media watcher and columnist Michael Wolff is perhaps the most unsparing in his assessment.
Loren Grush / The Verge:
RCN, CNN's regional partner in Boston, says it can find no evidence porn was aired; story was based on a series of tweets which news orgs failed to fact-check  —  Last night, a twitter account by the name of @solikearose tweeted out a surprising image of CNN broadcasting porn instead …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
CNN acquires social-video startup Beme, co-founded by YouTube star Casey Neistat, will invest in the team to launch a new standalone media brand  —  CNN has acquired social-video app startup Beme, co-founded by popular YouTube creator Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett, and will invest in the team …
Discussion: TechCrunch
The Guardian:
BBC journalist Hatice Kamer was detained in Turkish police custody overnight; she was allegedly accused of supporting a terrorist organization, may stand trial  —  Hatice Kamer, a journalist working for the BBC's Turkish-language service, held in south-east of country
Discussion: Press Gazette
Ross Benes / Digiday:
Viral publishers like ViralNova, Distractify, and Upworthy are attracting fewer media buyers as they struggle with fraud, lose traffic  —  Viral publishers have been inoculated.  —  Media buyers tell Digiday that interest in viral publishers — such as ViralNova and Distractify …
Carrie Brown:
In election coverage, the press has done a better job of representing white working-class voters than it has marginalized groups like ethnic minorities  —  Doubling down on catering to white people or so-called impartiality is not the answer  —  Faced with the growing recognition …
Ben Arnon / The Huffington Post:
Q&A with National Geographic's Sarah Leen on the process of getting images from camera to the page, advice for photographers, and on finding the perfect photo  —  If you're like me, you've grown up with a deep fascination of and a keen appreciation for the photographs in National Geographic.
Sarah Esther Maslin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of El Faro, an 18-year-old growing news site covering the drug and gang wars in El Salvador, which has faced threats and won journalism prizes  —  Salvadoran website El Faro has built its reputation with stirring stories of gangland, sparking threats at home and racking up prizes abroad.
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
One group WaPo cited in its Russian propaganda story is associated with Cold War proponents; the second group appears to have launched only recently  —  One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over “fake news” and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea …
 
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Roy Greenslade / The Guardian:
IPSO assembles a yet-to-be named journalists' advisory panel and a six-member readers' advisory panel that includes Leveson inquiry participant Tom Rowland
Variety:
Disney CEO Bob Iger discusses his retirement in June 2018, future plans, succession troubles, and the “inevitability” of selling ESPN directly to consumers
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Mark Jamison, one of two advisers appointed by President-elect Trump to examine the FCC, has said the agency should only license radio spectrum
Discussion: The Hill
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon hires Steve Woolf, former global head of networks at AwesomenessTV, as head of programming for Go90
Discussion: @stevewoolf
Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed:
How the rise of the Internet, Facebook, and fake news has fueled anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar
 

 
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Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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