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12:25 PM ET, November 22, 2017

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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: Pixar chief John Lasseter is taking a six-month sabbatical, apologizes to staff for any unwanted hugs “or any other gesture they felt crossed the line”  —  Pixar is set to release their next feature ‘Coco’ on Thanksgiving day.  —  Disney Animation head John Lasseter …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
FCC unveils its plan to repeal net neutrality rules, a move that would give ISPs broad powers to determine which websites and online services customers use  —  The Federal Communications Commission took aim at a signature Obama-era regulation Tuesday, unveiling a plan that would give Internet …
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Zack Sharf / IndieWire:
The Royal Tenenbaums, a 2001 film by Wes Anderson with a character believed to be based on Charlie Rose, may have alluded to the star's behavior
Discussion: The Wrap
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Memo: CBS President David Rhodes says the network has terminated Charlie Rose's employment, effective immediately
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Sources: Vice employees were enraged after CEO Smith failed to address sexual harassment in recent company presentation, amid fears of an upcoming NYT exposé  —  After a disastrous state of the union and amid rumors of another sexual harassment story, the media group is already doing damage control.
Discussion: @rafat
Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
CEO of popular app HQ Trivia, Rus Yusupov, repeatedly told reporter that the app's star host, a contractor, could be fired for talking to press, then denied it  —  Every day, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world fire up their smartphones and log onto HQ, a live trivia app …
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Village Media, relying on local advertisers, seems to have found a scalable (and profitable) local news model  —  “We have to find new and creative ways to not replace a client's Google and Facebook spend but find our own portion of it.”  —  Village Media is doing that weird thing …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Network urges subscribers to lobby businesses that advertise on CBS local stations, after the two failed to agree terms, resulting in a blackout  —  Dish Network is going hyper-local in its with contract spat with CBS.  —  The U.S.'s No. 2 satellite operator is encouraging customers affected …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
BuzzFeed's Ben Smith says news outlets cannot ignore newsworthy info no matter the source, explaining why BuzzFeed used congressional docs from Cernovich  —  Journalism can make for strange bedfellows.  Case in point: BuzzFeed and Mike Cernovich.  —  Cernovich — a controversial far-right figure …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Source: The New York Times is torn as to whether White House correspondent Glenn Thrush should be fired over alleged sexual harassment at his previous job  —  Multiple current and former Times employees are wrestling with whether the allegations against Thrush warrant his firing.
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How Mashable flamed out: loss of editorial focus, lack of financial controls, an ill-executed shift to video, and hesitance to diversify revenue  —  Few images better capture the unfettered optimism and indignity of digital media than 2014 at South by Southwest, where a line …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Another female-led investor group, which includes Walt Disney's grandniece and is led by NY-based Killer Content, is making a bid for the Weinstein Company  —  LOS ANGELES — Two female-led investor groups are lining up to save the Weinstein Company, which has been straining …
 
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Jennifer Maas / The Wrap:
36 female SNL staffers who worked with Senator Al Franken, who was a writer for the show, released a statement of public support for him
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP
 
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