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9:50 AM 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 …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Memo: CBS President David Rhodes says the network has terminated Charlie Rose's employment, effective immediately  —  CBS News has terminated its relationship Charlie Rose on Tuesday, one day after the Washington Post reported multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against the longtime news show host.
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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  —  One scene in Wes Anderson's 2001 comedy-drama is going viral following sexual harassment allegations made against journalist Charlie Rose.
Discussion: The Wrap
CBS News:
CBS investigation: three of the network's employees say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them, in incidents which happened after 2011  —  CBS News has fired “CBS This Morning” co-host Charlie Rose over allegations of sexual misconduct.  He had been with the broadcast since its launch in 2012.
Discussion: Deadline and CBS New York
Washington Post:
Eight women who worked for or aspired to work with Charlie Rose on his eponymous show say he sexually harassed them with nudity, groping, and lewd calls
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 …
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 …
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 …
ProPublica:
Ads for housing that exclude demographics are still being approved by Facebook, a year after a study highlighted the illegal discriminatory practice on Facebook  —  After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced …
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Justin Ling / Motherboard:
Eric Schmidt says Google News is working to derank Russian propaganda, naming RT and Sputnik, and adding Google doesn't want to ban the sites
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
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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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
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DoJ lawsuit against AT&T-Time Warner deal could stall some media mergers and acquisitions because antitrust standards remain uncertain
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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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Financial Times:
Sources: Meta's plans to build a US nuclear-powered AI data center were thwarted in part after a rare bee species was found on land earmarked for the project

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X starts rolling out an update to let users see public posts, and following and followers lists, of users who block them; blocked users still can't engage or DM

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
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