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7:20 PM ET, December 6, 2018

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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Sources: Bloomberg reporters express concern after Michael Bloomberg said his company might not cover politics if he ran for president  —  Reporters at Bloomberg News are on edge after their boss announced that if he chooses to run for president in 2020 — a decision he will have to finalize relatively soon …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Google launches a personalized audio news feed on Google Assistant using Google News in the US and releases specs for publishers for single-topic audio stories  —  People like smart speakers, but there are a lot of things they don't like about news on smart speakers.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
MoviePass is introducing three new plans offering three movies/month, but with restrictions, in Jan, as subscribers decline and cash flow remains problematic  —  LOS ANGELES — The last year has been a roller coaster with 20 loops for MoviePass and its customers.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Weekly Standard is dying so its patron, Philip Anschutz, can strengthen his other conservative political publication, the Washington Examiner  —  Its Never-Trump crusade violated the first commandment of political magazines: Keep your rich owner happy.  —  Political magazines depend …
BuzzFeed News:
An imposter Facebook account spread early misinformation about the Honduran migrant caravan; Facebook has deactivated it, declines to give account details  —  Days before the migrant caravan left Honduras, a fake Facebook account was used to try to bolster its numbers.
Chris Smith / Forbes:
The Players' Tribune acquires Unscriptd, whose mobile app lets athletes create, edit, and publish short-form videos, and which'll be rebranded The Players' Post  —  When Derek Jeter founded The Players' Tribune in 2014, he did so to give fellow athletes an outlet where they could tell their stories directly to fans.
Rani Molla / Recode:
Ampere Analysis: Comcast, WarnerMedia, Fox, and Disney shows make up nearly 20% of Netflix's content library while originals account for 8%  —  The streaming media pioneer could lose about a fifth of its content hours.  —  Following Netflix's lead, nearly every major video company is moving into the streaming media business.
Discussion: @hbsmktg and Recode
Associated Press:
Ecuador's president says the UK has provided guarantees that Julian Assange won't be extradited to a country with the death penalty, so he can leave the embassy  —  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's president says Britain has provided sufficient guarantees for Julian Assange to leave …
Discussion: Politico
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Billboard names Hannah Karp editorial director; magazine consulted with Poynter Institute on reestablishing editorial independence from its business division  —  One of the biggest jobs in music journalism sat vacant for two and a half years.  Now Billboard magazine has finally found its new top editor …
 
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Alex Stedman / Variety:
No female directors were nominated for the 2019 Golden Globes, which have only nominated five women in the category since they began in 1944
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Inside NJ.com's The Force Report, which examined 72K+ incident forms from 2012 to 2016 to expose patterns of use of force by police statewide
Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet says an international investigation is needed to determine who killed Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Discussion: Press Gazette and Mediaite
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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