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9:25 AM ET, December 20, 2017

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David Uberti / Splinter:
An audio recording of Ziff Davis executives' first meeting with Mashable staff sheds light on how the site is to be folded into existing e-commerce business  —  The recent trajectory of tech site Mashable has put it at the forefront of some of the worst trends reshaping digital media.
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Leaked documents: before sale Mashable lost $4.2M in three months through September, was set to miss revenue targets, and relied heavily on digital advertising
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Lev Garcia Flores / Associated Press:   Mexican reporter Gumaro Pérez was shot and killed in Veracruz on Tuesday by attackers while he was attending Christmas party at his son's school
Michael Calderone / Politico:
John Heilemann spoke to The Tony Kornheiser show about his future without collaborator Mark Halperin, said he hopes to continue as a “solo act” but that is TBD  —  THE WHITE HOUSE'S DEFENSE of President Trump's claim that he'll take a hit under the Republican tax bill boils down to this: Trust us.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: potential Rolling Stone buyers include Penske Media plus owners of Playboy and The Hollywood Reporter and Kuok Meng Ru, founder of investor BandLab  —  After 50 years at his iconic magazine, Jann Wenner will soon be leaving the building, a hard act to follow.  Will Jay Penske take his place?
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Longtime E! host Catt Sadler has quit the channel, claiming a male co-host was earning nearly double her salary and the channel refused to correct the gap  —  Longtime E! channel host Catt Sadler says she is leaving the company due to a “massive” pay disparity.
Tanya Dua / Business Insider:
Barstool Sports has named sports marketing veteran Deirdre Lester its first chief revenue officer  —  - Barstool Sports has tapped sports marketing veteran Deirdre Lester as its first Chief Revenue Officer.  — Lester will oversee advertising, revenue and brand partnerships and also look …
Michelle Davis / Bloomberg:
Source: Carlos Slim plans to cut his stake in The New York Times from 17% to about 8%, selling securities in a private offering  —  Mexican billionaire's stake would be reduced to 8% from 17%  —  Structure of sale is said to create tax benefits for Slim  —  Billionaire Carlos Slim …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Prompted by the “de-badging” of Milo Yiannopoulos, internal emails show confusion among Twitter execs over user verification policies and meaning of the badge  —  Emails suggest that verification was never quite what Twitter said it was and that the company was aware it served …
Media Matters for America:
On Fox News show “Outnumbered”, aired Tuesday, contributor Kevin Jackson suggested the FBI might have planned to assassinate Donald Trump  —  Serial liar and conspiracy theorist Kevin Jackson suggests “social media” sources indicated a plot against Trump  —  From the December 19 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered:
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Google Chrome will start natively blocking ads that do not comply with Coalition for Better Ads guidelines on February 15  —  In June, Google revealed that Chrome will stop showing all ads (including those owned or served by Google) on websites that display non-compliant ads “starting in early 2018.”
Nicola Slawson / The Guardian:
BBC to increase religious coverage to better represent all faiths  —  Review reportedly finds religious people ‘poorly presented or satirised’, and suggests programming that ‘better reflects the UK’  —  The BBC is set to increase its coverage of religions after a year-long review found …
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Associated Press:
Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates deleted his Twitter account following a contentious exchange with Cornell West in which Richard Spencer became involved
Christopher Zara / Fast Company:
PwC: the number of Americans who subscribe to cable TV is now on par with the number who subscribe to Netflix
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Filip Struhárik:
Facebook's Explore Feed test led to a 52% drop in interactions for Slovakian mainstream news sites, but only a 29% drop for disinformation sites
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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