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11:35 AM ET, December 20, 2016

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Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Desperate, Year-Long Hunt to Find Donald Trump's Rumored Apprentice Outtakes  —  Throughout the election, both the media and the Clinton camp were obsessed by outtakes from the reality show, amid allegations of hair-raising things said by the now president-elect.
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Eric Mandel / MyNorthwest.com:
Comedian Tom Arnold claims to have unreleased footage of Trump's outtakes on The Apprentice, says they feature the President-elect using racist language  —  While visiting with KIRO Radio's Dori Monson on Friday to talk about his upcoming performance in Seattle, comedian Tom Arnold revealed a bombshell …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
News orgs including The New York Times and Axios defend the off-the-record event with Donald Trump, say OTR is a good way to get closer to the truth  —  Reporters hung out with Donald Trump over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, though American news consumers won't be reading too much about the event.
Discussion: @peteymenz, @erikwemple and The Week
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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Media outlets, which are at risk of getting played by Trump, need to challenge the President-elect instead of going off the record with him  —  How quickly we forget.  Just a few months ago, Donald Trump was conducting an unprecedented attack on the mainstream press by keeping them in pens at his rallies …
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Reporters who attended Trump's off-the-record briefing on Sunday evening receive Twitter backlash after posing for a photo with the President-elect
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:
Russian hackers use “Methbot” botnet to steal $3M-$5M video ad revenue per day from over 6K premium publishers in largest ad fraud uncovered to date  —  The botnet has been siphoning an estimated $3 to $5 million in ad revenue per day, making it the largest ad fraud scam uncovered to date.
Jack Mirkinson / Fusion:
Longtime AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici praised for astonishing courage as he documented the murder of Russia's ambassador to Turkey  —  The news that Russia's ambassador to Turkey had been murdered reverberated around the world on Monday.  Beyond the obviously grim nature of the news …
Politico:
Memo: Politico's Editorial Director Blake Hounshell appointed editor of Politico Magazine  —  FIRST PERSON - “Witness to an assassination: AP photographer captures attack,” by Burhan Ozbilici in Ankara: “The event seemed routine, the opening of an exhibit of photographs of Russia.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
ProPublica sues the US Department of Veterans Affairs, claiming the department did not properly process a FOIA request for correspondence about Agent Orange  —  ProPublica has sued the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, claiming the agency failed to promptly process a request for correspondence …
Jacob Soll / Politico:
Despite media handwringing, fake news has been around since news became a concept 500 years ago with the invention of print, often provoking violence  —  Bogus news has been around a lot longer than real news.  And it's left a lot of destruction behind.  —  The fake news hit Trent, Italy, on Easter Sunday, 1475.
Discussion: bookforum.com
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen to acquire Gracenote from Tribune Media for $560M; the proceeds will be used to repay debts, Tribune Media CEO Peter Liguori says  —  “We are pleased to be streamlining our company so that we can focus even more intently on seizing future opportunities for our local television …
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Vanity Fair reporter Tina Nguyen, who skewered the Trump Grill, says she was “shocked” by Trump's tweet and feared being doxxed by his supporters  —  Choking down “flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings” and dealing with bathrooms that “transport diners to the experience of desperately searching …
 
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