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Mike Allen / Axios:
Memo from NBC News Chairman Andy Lack: “Today” anchor Matt Lauer has been fired following a complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behaviour — NBC “Today” star Matt Lauer, the highest paid personality in TV news, was fired following “a detailed complaint …
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Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Video: “Today” co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb share Matt Lauer's firing on Wednesday's show; Guthrie says they are devastated — Matt Lauer, the anchor of “Today” for two decades, was fired by NBC News after a detailed complaint about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.
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Ramin Setoodeh / @raminsetoodeh:
Variety's New York Bureau Chief Ramin Setoodeh says he and a colleague have spent two months researching a story about Lauer, says there were multiple victims — For the last two months, @EWagmeister and I have been reporting on a story about serious sexual harassment allegations against Lauer. There were multiple victims. http://variety.com/...
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New York Times:
Sources: Trump continues to privately harbor a handful of conspiracy theories with no grounding in fact, including doubting the Access Hollywood tape — WASHINGTON — Shortly after his victory last year, Donald J. Trump began revisiting one of his deepest public humiliations: the infamous …
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
CNN says staff will not attend White House media Christmas party; sources say Trump's tweet about CNN International is believed to imperil journalists abroad — Under fire from Trump, the network says it would be ‘inappropriate to celebrate with him as his invited guests.’
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John Skipper / ESPN Front Row:
Memo: ESPN President John Skipper announces 150 layoffs, mainly in studio production, digital content, and technology — EDITOR'S NOTE: ESPN President John Skipper shared this message with employees this morning. — Today we are informing approximately 150 people at ESPN that their jobs are being eliminated.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Efforts to undermine the reality-based press, including the Project Veritas scam, have forced media to be more transparent — In the right-wing campaign to discredit the truth, every day brings a new low. — I don't mean Roy Moore's campaign for U.S. Senate, though that certainly has been at the center …
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Project Veritas, the organization that tried to dupe WaPo into writing a fake story about Roy Moore, received $20K from Trump's charitable org in 2015 — James O'Keefe's organisation specialising in media stings received donations from Trump's foundation but was caught red-handed peddling a false story
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Rebecca Lurye / Hartford Courant:
Campus police arrest Lucian Wintrich, WH correspondent for Gateway Pundit, after his UConn talk was interrupted and he appeared to grab a woman, starting brawl — Lucian Wintrich, White House correspondent for the far-right website Gateway Pundit, was arrested by UConn police after an altercation …
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Arguments against FCC's Net Neutrality rollback miss that regulation incurs opportunity costs and more attention should be paid to inter-ISP competition — Note: This post was previously titled “Why Ajit Pai is Right.” I have changed it to reflect my interest in a substantive debate, not flame-throwing.
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Tony Romm / Recode:
FCC's Pai says tech giants like Twitter and Facebook use “the regulatory process to cement their dominance” and pose biggest threat to online speech, not ISPs
FCC's Pai says tech giants like Twitter and Facebook use “the regulatory process to cement their dominance” and pose biggest threat to online speech, not ISPs
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Wired Magazine is launching a metered paywall in January; EIC Nicholas Thompson says a price has not been set yet but it will be less than $9.99 a month — Wired magazine plans to introduce a metered paywall in January, which may precede online subscriptions at other Condé Nast publications
Facebook:
Facebook says 99% of ISIS and Al Qaeda-related terror content is removed via AI before users flag it, and 83% of copies are removed within an hour of upload — By Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Brian Fishman, Head of Counterterrorism Policy, Facebook
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