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4:00 PM ET, December 11, 2019

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Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
Sinclair axes Boris Epshteyn, its chief political analyst who was once a Trump aide, to add time for “critical and relevant issues” and investigative journalism  —  Sinclair, which owns 193 stations in the U.S., said it wants to focus on local news and investigative journalism.
@jack:
Twitter is funding bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter being a client of it  —  Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, and will remove some of Steven Crowder's videos targeting Carlos Maza  —  The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian's homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist.
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Facebook confirms that a bug caused tens of thousands of now restored ads to disappear from its political ad library, days before UK's general election  —  London (CNN Business)Tens of thousands of political ads went missing from Facebook's archive this week, according to researchers …
New York Times:
Lawyers say Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company board reached a tentative $25M settlement with most of his alleged victims; $12M+ would pay legal costs  —  After two years of legal wrangling, Harvey Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt film studio have reached a tentative $25 million …
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 …
John Keefe / Quartz:
Data from 2015-2019: 23% of stories that were Pulitzer winners or finalists were published in December, possibly due to rush to meet the December 31 deadline  —  Here's a secret: Some of the year's best investigative journalism will drop this month.  —  I'm not saying I know of a forthcoming …
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.
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Sky News to partner with BuzzFeed UK to stream UK election coverage on social sites and Sky News' digital platforms, in an effort to reach a younger audience  —  U.K. broadcaster Sky News has teamed up with BuzzFeed UK to stream political coverage across social media platforms during the results of the U.K. general election.
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
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Profile of LION Publishers, which aims to help its member community of about 250 local indie online publishers become sustainable, as it is awarded a $1M grant  —  After leaving her job as the managing editor of a newspaper owned by Digital First Media “due to differences with this company's management” …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
AT&T's Xandr ad-tech unit is selling a new ad unit called “pause ad,” which runs with full sound thirty seconds after a viewer pauses a video  —  Stop.  This might be a good time for a commercial.  —  Consumers are increasingly resistant to sitting through a traditional commercial break …
Discussion: The Streamable and @craigsilverman
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.
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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
 
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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
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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
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
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
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
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