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7:00 AM ET, December 11, 2019

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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
How WaPo published “The Afghanistan Papers”, which includes interviews with key figures critiquing the US war in Afghanistan, after years of legal battles  —  The path to The Afghanistan Papers started with Michael Flynn.  —  In the summer of 2016, as the retired Army general became renowned …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Berkeleyside to launch a journalism venture in Oakland in spring 2020 with $3.12M in funding from the Google News Initiative and the American Journalism Project  —  A new Oakland, California-based journalism venture will launch next spring with $1.56 million in funding from the Google News Initiative (GNI), executives tell Axios.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
American Journalism Project announces its first 11 recipients, with $8.5M distributed among them, comprising 15-30% of their 2020 budgets; AJP has raised $46M  —  “The grants will fund an organization's first dedicated revenue positions, or grow an existing revenue team.
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
How Recode's Open Sourced, a just-launched, Omidyar Network-funded project, aims to explain the consequences of tech using reader questions to guide coverage  —  Yes, social media companies are irrevocably altering our way of life, our information streams are more tainted than ever …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Neither of the sources in credits for the Richard Jewell film mention any romantic tie between reporter Kathy Scruggs and the FBI agent thought to be her source  —  The newspaper reporter character in “Richard Jewell,” director Clint Eastwood's new movie about the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Warner Bros. says AJC's claims of defamation in the film Richard Jewell are “baseless” and plans to defend against them, says the film already has a disclaimer
Brent Lang / Variety:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution demands disclaimer that the film “Richard Jewell” took dramatic license when portraying its late journalist as trading sex for tips
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Bloomberg has bought The Atlantic's CityLab, its first acquisition since Businessweek in 2009; CityLab will continue to operate as a standalone site and brand  —  The brand will continue to operate as a standalone entity  —  Another media acquisition is afoot.
Diana Falzone / Vanity Fair:
Fox Nation host Britt McHenry sues Fox News and former co-host George Murdoch, alleging sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation  —  McHenry alleges she received multiple sexually explicit text messages from her ex-Un-PC cohost, Tyrus, and that the network did not adequately address the situation.
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Fortune to launch a paywall in Jan., with a three tier membership program from $5/month, but will offer news, second-day takes, and sponsored content for free  —  In January 2020, Fortune will finally launch a paywall it has wanted to build for more than two years.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ 2019 prison census: 250+ journalists are imprisoned globally, and the top three countries putting reporters behind bars are China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia  —  For the fourth consecutive year, at least 250 journalists are imprisoned globally as authoritarians like Xi Jinping …
Emma Goldberg / New York Times:
A look at the decline of feminist digital media, as sites like Feministing, The Establishment, and others have closed in the past year or are about to close  —  Soon after Anna Holmes took on the job of building the website Jezebel, in 2007, she set it apart from established publications …
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Source: Verizon Media Group, which includes Yahoo, AOL, TechCrunch, and HuffPost, is laying off 150 staffers this week, or about 1.4% of its workforce  —  New York (CNN Business)Verizon Media Group is laying off 150 staffers this week, which means the telecom company's 2019 is ending much in the same way it started.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Magna Global: global TV ad sales fell 4% in 2019, the steepest decline since 2009 with European TV channel viewership between 18 and 49 dropping 7-8%  —  - Global ad sales still rise, thanks to technology firms  — TV viewership falls sharply in U.S., Europe and Asia
 
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Kathryn Hopkins / WWD:
Aya Kanai named editor-in-chief of Marie Claire as the current EIC Anne Fulenwider steps down to launch a women's health business
Sean Murray / TheJournal.ie:
Given video evidence, BBC and ITV journalists apologize for tweeting that a Labour activist had punched a Tory advisor based on info given by Tory sources
Daniel Trilling / The Guardian:
The Sun retracted a Jeremy Corbyn story on Saturday without acknowledgement or explanation, after readers found info sourced from far-right conspiracy theorists