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3:30 PM ET, December 1, 2020

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Sean O'Neill / Skift:
Red Ventures, which owns CNET and travel advice site The Points Guy, has acquired travel media company Lonely Planet from NC2 Media  —  FIRST FREE STORY (1 OF 3)  —  More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.  —  Already a member?
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Facebook to launch its dedicated News tab in the UK in Jan., says it will pay outlets for content selected by Facebook staff; most big UK outlets have signed up  —  Social network agrees deal with mainstream outlets in face of government crackdown on its dominance of advertising
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Joe Rogan is Spotify's most popular podcast globally and NPR News Now is in the US with The Daily, Call Her Daddy, and Michelle Obama's podcast in the top five  —  As they do at this time every year, Spotify has unveiled the top artists, albums, tracks, playlists and podcasts …
The New York Times Company:
NYT says it has raised $4M for Headway, a three-year journalistic venture, which will aim to produce 10-12 deeply researched, data-rich projects per year  —  The New York Times has raised $4 million to launch Headway, a journalism initiative to investigate global and national challenges.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Showtime debuts a Pluto channel, Showtime Selects, which will air a selection of its programming for free, with ads, to attract new subscribers  —  Showtime is unlocking a selection of original programming — for free, with ads — in a new channel on Pluto TV.
Discussion: The Streamable, MediaPost and /Film
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
Reddit says it averaged 52M DAUs in October, up 44% YoY, disclosing the metric for the first time; ad revenue hit $100M+ in 2019, on track to rise 70%+ in 2020  —  The disclosure comes as the tech company pursues new advertisers  —  Reddit Inc. said it averaged 52 million daily active users in October …
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Some publishers are experimenting to keep events engaging during the pandemic: Atlas Obscura is planning US road trips, PopSugar hosted a drive-in LA premiere  —  This article is part of the Future of Work briefing, a weekly email with stories, interviews, trends and links about how work, workplaces and workforces are changing.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
In Trump's first TV interview since Nov. 3, Maria Bartiromo approvingly let him regurgitate nonsensical allegations about the election for 45 minutes  —  It's not just the fringe outlets carrying his water  —  In the years-long competition among Fox employees to demonstrate the most obsequiousness …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
After Facebook blocked his anti-vaccine posts, a conspiracy theorist in UK launched a newspaper, using Facebook to build a volunteer print distribution network  —  Self-published newspaper uses Facebook and Twitter to recruit volunteers and increase reach  —  hen the factcheckers tried …
 
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Ofcom approves launch of Rupert Murdoch's opinionated TV news channel, News UK TV, which, sources say, will be an evening-only service
Geert De Clercq / Reuters:
French President Macron's ruling party agreed to rewrite the draft security law that would have curbed filming of police, after it sparked large protests
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