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1:40 AM ET, December 4, 2017

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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
ABC News Suspends Brian Ross for 4 Weeks Without Pay: ‘Effective Immediately’  —  ABC News has announced that Brian Ross would be suspended for four weeks without pay “effective immediately.”  —  “It is vital we get the story right and retain the trust we have built with our audience - these are our core principles.
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
ABC News corrects bombshell report claiming Trump asked Flynn to contact Russians as a candidate, elicits criticism by initially calling it a “clarification”  —  Trump's praise of Michael Flynn over the years  —  ABC News on Friday evening corrected an explosive special report …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Billy Bush, dropped as a Today host by NBC after Trump Access Hollywood tape leaked, confirms the tape is real, despite doubts reportedly cast by Trump recently  —  Times Trump accepted the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape  —  Billy Bush is reentering the public eye, and he's starting by sending a message to President Trump.
Suki Kim / The Cut:
Multiple women accuse John Hockenberry, public radio icon and former host of WNYC's “The Takeaway”, of sexually harassing female colleagues  —  This story starts differently than most sexual harassment accounts out there.  It begins with the accused harasser honorably “retiring” …
Tom Westbrook / Reuters:
Australia's competition regulator says it will investigate whether Facebook and Google have disrupted news media to the detriment of publishers and consumers  —  SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether U.S. online giants Facebook …
Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Les Whitten, an investigative reporter who worked for Jack Anderson's Washington Merry-Go-Round, dies at 89  —  Les Whitten was a top legman to investigative reporter Jack Anderson.  He was once tailed by the CIA and jailed by the FBI.  (Family photo)  —  Les Whitten, an investigative …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Opelika-Auburn News has taken a careful, nuanced approach to editorials about Roy Moore, as it navigates Alabama's Senate race and offers a community forum  —  Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally last month in Henagar, Ala. (Brynn Anderson/Associated Press)
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vidme Shuts Down User-Generated Video Service, Citing Inability to Compete With Google, Facebook  —  Startup Vidme is shutting down its user-generated video service — because it can't see a way to make money in the face of internet giants Google and Facebook.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Inside the White House's awkward holiday party for journalists, which Breitbart attended for the first time while CNN boycotted  —  WASHINGTON — The affair felt dissonant from the start: a festive gathering in the East Wing of the White House, thrown by President Trump for the journalists whose work …
Discussion: @jonlemire and The Guardian
Aleksander Chan / Splinter:
Dodai Stewart, the editor-in-chief of Splinter News, formerly of Fusion and Jezebel, leaves the Gizmodo Media Group to pursue screenwriting  —  It's the end of an era.  Today is Dodai Stewart's last day as Editor-in-Chief of Splinter.  She leaves the site and GMG after an indelible career as a writer …
Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
How the Offshore Journalism Toolkit is working to archive online stories that may be removed due to censorship, right to be forgotten, or organizations closing  —  We talked to data journalist Nicolas Kayser-Bril about the Offshore Journalism Toolkit.  —  Turns out online content has an expiration date.
 
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The Guardian:
State-owned firms withholding advertising from opposing news outlets, restrictions on free speech, restrictive media laws threaten local media around the world
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Le Monde's suite of fact-checking tools for the public, Décodex, is almost a year old, and editors hope to share it with news outlets using other languages
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Bill Simmons as he launches Ringer Films, focused on non-scripted programming; initial Ringer investor HBO to have first pass at video content
Discussion: The Wrap
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Gecko Project launches as a reporting initiative for making environmental journalism about the Global South available to its residents via social media
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with journalists on reporting on extremism: be wary of manipulation, contact experts, recognize the role of the Internet, consider the targets of extremism
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Trace partnered with over a dozen local NBC stations to produce a year-long report, Missing Pieces, will open the data it has collected to the public
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
David Kang, senior director of Apple News monetization and strategy since November 2016, is leaving his role for another position at the company
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC News launches internal review into how it handled Matt Lauer sexual harassment allegations
Brian Calle / LA Weekly:
LA Weekly announces new ownership team comprised of investors Brian Calle and Andy Bequer, attorneys David Welch and Steve Mehr, philanthropist Kevin Xu, others
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

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Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

 
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