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Variety:
NBC sources describe Lauer's transgressions: lewd comments, invitations to his hotel room late at night on assignment, and dropping his pants in his office — As the co-host of NBC's “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted …
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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
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Washington Post:
Project Veritas' Jaime Phillips, who tried to plant a false story about Roy Moore, spent months trying to infiltrate The Post and other media in Washington, NY — The failed effort by conservative activists to plant a false story about Senate candidate Roy Moore in The Washington Post …
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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
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Foreign Policy, Slate, The Gateway Pundit and The Week
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
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed to cut ~100 jobs, mostly business-side roles in its US and UK offices, as it faces a revenue shortfall; President Greg Coleman to step down — CEO Jonah Peretti aims to diversify revenue sources beyond native advertising — Facing a significant revenue shortfall this year …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Media companies, from upstarts like BuzzFeed to the NYT, face a correction and must continue to diversify revenue; counting on unlimited VC money spells doom — Agony is the natural state of the news industry. Newspaper sales per capita peaked before color television was a thing …
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Jeff Baenen / Associated Press:
Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion”, says he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” said Wednesday he has been fired …
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Lauren Raab / Los Angeles Times:
Editorial staff at LA Weekly gutted: 9 of 13 employees lost jobs on Wednesday as Voice Media Group completed sale to Semanal Media — LA Weekly's latest Best of L.A. issue came out in October. Nine of the 13 members of the editorial staff lost their jobs Wednesday as Voice Media group completed its sale of the publication.
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Keith Plocek / LA Weekly:
LA Weekly posts article questioning ownership of the paper and the motives for layoffs
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Hollywood Reporter:
CNN fires senior producer Teddy Davis, who worked on State of the Union hosted by Jake Tapper, after claims of inappropriate behavior — “The behavior attributed to Mr. Davis does not align with the standards and values of CNN," the network said in a statement.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a “mistake” — s Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information …
Shira Ovide / Bloomberg:
Snapchat's redesign likely won't appeal to new users, despite goal of growing users, and may alienate media partners by separating content from friend messages — The messaging service can't seem to decide whether to cater to avid users or appeal to a broader audience.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook tests a Breaking tag in News Feed with ABC, Verge, Vox, and others, letting publishers use tag for 15 minutes to 6 hours with no ranking impact yet — Facebook is making it easier for people to find actual news in their News Feed. — Facebook will now let some publishers add a …
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Vanity Fair, @kurtwagner8 and @vanessaw
Tony Romm / Recode:
CEO Randall Stephenson says AT&T may make concessions to get DoJ approval for Time Warner merger but won't sell assets like CNN because of “message it sends” — The company's leader, Randall Stephenson, said AT&T is still open to concessions — but ready to fight.
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Deadline:
Sources: John Lasseter's conduct with women went beyond “uninvited hugs” to groping; Disney had a handler attend events with him to supervise his behavior — In the wake of John Lasseter's announcement that he would take a six-month leave from Disney-Pixar Animation …
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IndieWire and Vanity Fair
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