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6:10 PM 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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Don Kaplan / New York Daily News:
Roger Ailes makes a rare call to the New York Daily News in an unsuccessful effort to get an apology for “Gropey old men” headline  —  Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes called the Daily News' MediaBlast Monday — to complain about a headline.  —  “I was hoping you would be a gentleman …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Source: White House press secretary job likely to go to RNC strategist Sean Spicer; Daily Mail's US Political Editor David Martosko turned down for role  —  Dodging an ethical bullet, the Daily Mail's Donald Trump-friendly U.S. political editor, David Martosko—who had been interviewing …
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.
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.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Q&A with Megyn Kelly on her next move in TV news, diversity on the staff of The Kelly File, her relationship with Trump, Fox's campaign coverage, and more  —  In the tour for her new book “Settle For More,” Fox News host Megyn Kelly has spoken at length about a certain progression over her career.
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.
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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
Discussion: @charlesornstein
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
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Jack Mirkinson / Fusion:
Longtime AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici praised for astonishing courage as he documented the murder of Russia's ambassador to Turkey