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4:15 PM ET, November 30, 2017

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Keith Plocek / LA Weekly:
LA Weekly posts article questioning ownership of the paper and the motives for layoffs  —  Who owns the publication you're reading right now?  —  It's a question you should ask no matter what you're reading.  In Latin there's a phrase, cui bono, which roughly translates as “who is benefiting?”
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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.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Matt Lauer apologizes for his behavior and admits there is “enough truth” to the allegations to feel ashamed in statement timed for the “Today” show broadcast  —  Watch how Matt Lauer covered sexual harassment  —  A day after NBC announced his termination …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Reliance on network TV star anchors helped drive revenue, but also created conditions for power imbalances and incentivized networks to condone bad behavior  —  Matt Lauer, of NBC News, played the easygoing dad you could rely on — fun-loving but serious enough when he had to be.
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
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
Washington Post:
Project Veritas' Jaime Phillips, who tried to plant a false story about Roy Moore, spent months trying to infiltrate The Post, other media in Washington and NY  —  The failed effort by conservative activists to plant a false story about Senate candidate Roy Moore in The Washington Post …
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Time Inc. announces it has sold Sunset magazine to Regent, a private equity firm in Beverly Hills; sales of Essence, Golf, and Time Inc. UK are also pending  —  Sunset magazine, founded in 1898 as a way to lure travelers West and which went on to help generations live their best California lives, has a new owner.
Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Sources: Sinclair is close to accepting DoJ remedies for approval of $6.6B buyout by selling 13 Tribune stations, though it hopes only to sell 10  —  Sinclair Broadcasting is close to accepting a remedy proposed by President Trump's Department of Justice to allow its $6.6 billion buyout …
Discussion: FierceCable
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 …
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
No black women were listed among 683 panelists at Business Insider's annual digital and media conference established in 2010, though some invites issued, per BI  —  The annual gathering of media and digital industry leaders appears to have a blind spot.  —  Since 2010, just after Thanksgiving each year …
Discussion: @britnidwrites and @spicepirate00
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Stock falls about 24% for publisher of Daily Mail, DMGT, in London trading after company warns 2018 will be a “year of transition” as it reports earnings  —  Investors pull back after dour outlook, earnings miss  —  Panmure Gordon's Helliwell calls 2018 guidance ‘notably weak’
Discussion: DMGT, Press Gazette and Telegraph
 
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CNN fires senior producer Teddy Davis, who worked on State of the Union hosted by Jake Tapper, after claims of inappropriate behavior
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
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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