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3:25 PM ET, December 7, 2018

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New York Times:
A draft report for CBS board says separation between 60 Minutes and CBS News permitted misconduct by some employees and that Jeff Fager's firing was justified  —  For decades, “60 Minutes” has reigned at the top of television news, bringing in hundreds of journalistic awards …
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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Deadline:   In a message to staff, CBS interim CEO Joe Ianniello says investigation is ending soon and expresses frustration about leaks to media about it
Nicole Chavez / CNN:
NYPD gives the all-clear after investigating a bomb threat near CNN's NYC offices in the Time Warner Center, which were evacuated after a phoned bomb threat  —  (CNN)CNN's New York offices and studios have been evacuated due to a phoned bomb threat, the company said.
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac:
Pandora officially launches its Podcasts on Pandora platform for iOS with hundreds of podcasts from various genres  —  Pandora has officially launched its podcasts platform today after running a beta on iOS and Android for about three weeks.  Podcasts on Pandora is now available for all users …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
How the shoe-leather reporting by a North Carolina journalist and the analysis of a professor helped broaden the coverage of 9th district election fraud  —  The announcement was made on a Tuesday, and it made just a ripple at the time.  —  The North Carolina board of elections voted unanimously …
The Information:
Sources: ByteDance, the startup behind popular video app TikTok, is in talks to raise $1.45B for its first venture fund to invest in AI and media content  —  China's ByteDance, the world's most valuable startup worth $75 billion, is in talks to raise the equivalent of more than $1 billion …
Discussion: Variety, Reuters and TechCrunch
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 …
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: Quibi is looking to strike third-party distribution deals with telcos to gain subscriptions, aiming for them to account for 60-70% of revenue  —  Quibi, the billion-dollar mobile streaming video startup from Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, is going to pursue deals with wireless …
Discussion: MediaPost
Damien Wilde / 9to5Google:
Video sharing app Byte, developed by the creators of Vine, opens creator registrations and plans a spring 2019 launch  —  Vine may have shut down in 2016, but the popularity of the platform still lives on through many a YouTube Vine compilation.  The new Vine 2. known as Byte is set to launch …
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Fox News host Pete Hegseth was paid about $10K by MI Republicans to speak at an event with a US Senate candidate, who Hegseth later repeatedly interviewed on TV  —  Fox News host Pete Hegseth was paid roughly $10,000 by Republicans in Michigan to speak at a fundraising event with then-Senate candidate John James.
Discussion: Washington Post and Telegraph
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Financial news and information company TheStreet is selling The Deal and BoardEx for $87.3M to Euromoney; its CEO David Callaway will leave once the deal closes  —  TheStreet Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its institutional business units, The Deal and BoardEx …
Discussion: New York Post and TheStreet
Libby Watson / Splinter:
A critique of access journalism, after one journalist defended the bargaining that gives connected journalists access to power in exchange for softer coverage  —  In the Atlantic today, Elaina Plott published what she described as a piece about “why it's so annoying when people sneer …
 
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Studio71, known for its YouTube management and video production, plans to launch 10 podcasts next year in the UK in a growing effort to diversify its slate
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network launches a three episode podcast, (Mis)informed, about fact-checking and fake news
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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
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Weekly Standard is dying so its patron, Philip Anschutz, can strengthen his other conservative political publication, the Washington Examiner
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

 
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