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David Faber / CNBC:
Sources: 21st Century Fox is close to a deal with Walt Disney Co to sell its studio and TV production assets and it could come as early as next week — - Fox would sell movie and television production assets and keep its news, sports and broadcast network.
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Financial Times:
Sources: James Murdoch has been suggested as a potential successor to Disney CEO Bob Iger, due to retire in 2019, if Disney acquires 21st Century Fox assets — Matthew Garrahan in London, Arash Massoudi in London and James Fontanella-Khan in New York — James Murdoch has been suggested …
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Business Insider, The Guardian, Multichannel News and Financial Times
Associated Press:
12 American Media ex-employees share details of complaints about Dylan Howard's behavior and an ensuing probe, after which he left before returning a year later — https://apnews.com/61ec808965414abb810a 6e2d84f06a79 — NEW YORK (AP) — The top editor for the National Enquirer …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Ziff Davis has bought Mashable for less than $50M; source: about 50 people will likely be laid off and founder Pete Cashmore will stay at the company — Founder Pete Cashmore is staying. — Mashable, once a fast-growing digital publisher with big ambitions, has been sold at a fire sale price.
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Jon Christian / The Outline:
Contributing writers to publications including Mashable, Inc, Business Insider, and Fast Co say they accepted payments in exchange for promoting companies — An Outline investigation found that contributors to prominent publications have taken payments in exchange for positive coverage.
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@joshuatopolsky, @kemc, @fmanjoo, @benjihyam, @jank0 and Talking Biz News
BuzzFeed:
YouTube says moderation team will have 10K+ people by end of 2018, up 25% according to sources, and pledges new ads approach to curb child exploitation problem — The company plans to have over 10,000 content moderators on staff by the end of 2018, YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki said.
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Selina Wang / Bloomberg:
Kremlin-backed Russian IRA operated dozens of Twitter accounts, part of the suspended 2,752 list, posing as local US news sources, amassing 500K+ followers — Twitter has suspended dozens of accounts masquerading as U.S. news sources that had more than 500,000 followers.
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:
Trolls got a reporter's account locked over an old joke, revealing how Twitter's rules can be exploited and how high-profile users get better customer support
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@katienotopoulos, @davidklion, @feministajones, @eff and @jwherrman
Rebecca Carroll / Esquire:
Former Charlie Rose producer Rebecca Carroll writes about her experience as the only black journalist working on the show in the late 1990s — As one powerful man after another faces allegations of sexual misconduct, we're still not talking about the ramifications for black women.
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The Wrap, @tylercoates, @monaeltahawy, @schemaly, @kmcdonovgh, @itsmeadria, @deggans, @bencasselman, @gbahadur, EW.com and HuffPost
Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube says it's pulling support for Amazon Echo Show today, will cut access to YouTube on Amazon FireTV starting Jan. 1; Amazon stops selling new Nest devices — New Nest devices have mysteriously disappeared from Amazon — Three months ago, YouTube pulled its programming …
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CNET, Business Insider, Fast Company, Multichannel News, Variety, Engadget, Gizmodo, Tubefilter, @backlon, @jeffersongraham, Android Police, FierceCable, GeekWire, @craigsilverman, ZDNet and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:
Sources: Apple has acquired Oakland-based Pop Up Archive, an online platform that builds tools to transcribe, organize, and search audio files — Plus: Public radio deals with a new wave of harassment allegations, Reddit and WBUR team up, et l'industrie du podcast au Québec.
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Fast Company, Financial Times, ZDNet, TechCrunch, RAIN News, MacRumors, @roybahat, Business Insider, AppleInsider, www.wnyc.org and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: daily email newsletter theSkimm is exploring a potential sale after being approached by an interested buyer — Daily email newsletter reaches more than 6 million subscribers, who are mostly women — TheSkimm, the daily news digest that has taken off with younger women …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Profile: Armstrong Williams, who wants to buy the Washington City Paper, says he won't impose conservative views, but current and former staffers raise doubts — Armstrong Williams sat in his Capitol Hill office with a pistol on his hip and a plan for buying the Washington City Paper on his desk.
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@wplyndarobinson, @joshtpm and @mrtimregan
Jethro Mullen / CNNMoney:
Russia has designated nine US government-backed news outlets, including Voice of America, as foreign agents, after US forced RT to register as a foreign agent — Russia is labeling nine U.S. government-backed news outlets — including Voice of America — as foreign agents.
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Washington Post, @chiiium, @raju and @reuters
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Brian Ross' Michael Flynn error is one among several high-profile blunders over his career — In 2006, ace ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross went on the air with a big scoop: Pakistani officials, he reported, had arrested Matiur Rehman, an al-Qaeda explosives expert who kept an “official” list of terrorist recruits.
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