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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook says Watch has 75M daily users who spend an average of 20 minutes streaming video and is rolling out Watch globally on desktop and Facebook Lite — - Facebook Renews Four Original Series Including ‘Sorry For Your Loss,’ Claims 75 Million Daily ‘Watch’ Viewers
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Kentucky's Gov. Matt Bevin lashes out at Louisville Courier Journal for teaming up with ProPublica and criticizes two ProPublica funders, including George Soros — Governor Matt Bevin (R- KY) posted a video of him blasting the Louisville Courier-Journal for its announcement of a journalistic partnership with ProPublica.
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ProPublica:
ProPublica names the 14 newsrooms and journalists who will participate in the second year of the Local Reporting Network, including NOLA.com and WNYC
ProPublica names the 14 newsrooms and journalists who will participate in the second year of the Local Reporting Network, including NOLA.com and WNYC
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Trump cancels the White House holiday party for the media — EXCLUSIVE - President Trump has canceled the White House holiday party for the media, making the decades-old tradition a victim of his increasingly contentious relationship with major news organizations.
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Washington Post, @ombudsman, @mathewi, Roland Martin, @lindsaygoldwert, Mediaite, Splinter, Fortune and New York Post
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, that they have been used for PR, and that they have lost trust in the company — Journalists paid to help fix Facebook's fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform
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Facebook, @violetblue, CNET, @donie, @politifact, Mashable, @drdenagrayson, @brendannyhan, @yashalevine, @jason_kint, Business Insider, Fortune, @mantzarlis, @digiphile and @dpotternews, more at Techmeme »
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Source: Trump was present in August 2015 when National Enquirer's David Pecker met with Michael Cohen and offered to help suppress stories about Trump and women — A source confirms to NBC News that the “other member of the campaign” present when Michael Cohen and David Pecker agreed to silence women was Donald Trump.
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Washington Post, Bloomberg and Fox News Insider
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Bloomberg:
Court document shows National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. took a non-prosecution deal, admitting role in a hush payment to affect the 2016 election
Court document shows National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. took a non-prosecution deal, admitting role in a hush payment to affect the 2016 election
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Source: Tribune Publishing ends talks to sell the company to McClatchy, with potential antitrust issues in Florida derailing a deal — A bundle of Chicago Tribune newspapers comes off the press May 16, 2016, at the Tribune's Freedom Center printing plant in Chicago.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: Tribune Publishing is paying ex-LAT exec Davan Maharaj $2.5M+ to avert a lawsuit, keeping an anti-Semitic slur by ex-chairman Michael Ferro under wraps
Sources: Tribune Publishing is paying ex-LAT exec Davan Maharaj $2.5M+ to avert a lawsuit, keeping an anti-Semitic slur by ex-chairman Michael Ferro under wraps
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Joseph Ax / Reuters:
CPJ report: 251 journalists are in jail as of Dec. 1, with more half in China, Turkey, and Egypt; 28 imprisoned on “charges of “false news”, up from 21 in 2017 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A near-record number of journalists around the world are behind bars for their work …
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Committee to Protect …, ABC News, @o_rich_ and @wolfe321
Light Reading:
AT&T begins to roll out Cheddar to DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse TV — Cheddar, the leading post-cable networks company, is beginning rollout across AT&T video platforms DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW and U-verse TV. — “AT&T operates one of the largest and best video platforms in the world …
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@richbtig, Thanks:@jonsteinberg
Ted Johnson / Variety:
FCC begins Congressionally-mandated review of media ownership rules, including a current ban on mergers among top four broadcast networks — - National Enquirer Parent Admits to Making Karen McDougal Payments to Help Trump in 2016 Election — WASHINGTON — The FCC will review whether …
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Reuters, Broadcasting & Cable, Radio & Television … and The Hill
Irin Carmon / Vulture:
Sources say CBS This Morning executive producer Ryan Kadro is leaving the network, but CBS says it's unrelated to the Charlie Rose settlement he was named in — Ryan Kadro, the executive producer of CBS This Morning, is said to be leaving the network, two sources at the company told Vulture.
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Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
CBS News settles lawsuit with three women who accused Charlie Rose of sexual harassment, but legal proceedings against Rose continue
CBS News settles lawsuit with three women who accused Charlie Rose of sexual harassment, but legal proceedings against Rose continue
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Variety, @irin, Business Insider, Vulture, Vanity Fair, Deadline, Washington Post, New York Daily News, CBS News and The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
The Washington Post announces it has licensed its Arc Publishing platform to Raycom Media, which has relaunched 42 TV and radio stations on the platform — Arc to power 42 websites and 39 native apps for Raycom's TV and radio stations — The Washington Post's Arc Publishing today announced …
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TvTechnology and Broadcasting & Cable
Sam Allard / Cleveland Scene:
Advance Publications is considering outsourcing the Cleveland Plain Dealer's print production, affecting copy editors and designers, with union talks under way — In what may be a grim foretaste of labor negotiations set to occur in 2019 when the Plain Dealer's union contract expires …
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@paulakampf, @scenesallard, @michaelmcintyre and The Plain Dealer News Guild