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8:20 PM ET, November 30, 2021

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New York Times:
CNN suspends Chris Cuomo pending further evaluation, saying new docs point to a “greater level of involvement in his brother's efforts than we previously knew”  —  The cable news network's top-rated anchor was an enthusiastic adviser to Andrew Cuomo in the last 18 months of his governorship.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Newly released records show Chris Cuomo used his media sources to track the progress of Ronan Farrow's reporting about Andrew Cuomo and find info on accusers
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Twitter bans sharing private images and videos without consent, with exceptions for newsworthiness and public figures, and will remove content that users report  —  Twitter has expanded its private information policy to include media, meaning that users are not allowed to share photos or videos …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU will propose a Media Freedom Act next year to prevent large media groups from buying smaller rivals and to thwart government interference like in Hungary  —  The European Commission plans to introduce rules next year to prevent a few large media groups from acquiring smaller rivals …
Discussion: Broadband TV News
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Vox Media signs a deal with WNYC to distribute Today, Explained on public radio and poaches NPR's Noel King as editorial director and co-host for the show  —  Vox Media has inked a deal with WNYC, a member station of NPR, to distribute its flagship podcast “Today, Explained” …
Jon Lafayette / nexttv.com:
MoffettNathanson: the number of pay-TV households will drop from 83M today to 73.2M by 2024, as cord-cutting continues at a 4% to 5% annual pace  —  Sports and live news viewers put pay TV floor at 53 million, down from 83 million in 2021  —  The number of pay TV homes will drop …
Discussion: The Streamable
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Twitter should consider changing its business model as its ad revenue remains weak, despite its locked-in userbase, indispensability, and impenetrable moat  —  From CNBC: … On one hand, congratulations to Twitter for its first non-messy CEO transition in its history; on the other hand …
Seb Joseph / Digiday:
UK's Association of Online Publishers debuts a protocol to help members contact other publishers if citations for the member's exclusive content are missing  —  In the absence of links to original sources, the significant impact on publishers' traffic, and the associated revenues, are irrefutable.
Discussion: @alxterrell and @martinsfp
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Future, the owner of Marie Claire and TechRadar, reports pre-tax profit doubled to £107.8M and revenue rose 79% YoY to £606M in FY 2021  —  Shares in owner of Marie Claire, Techradar and GoCompare rise 15% after forecast of higher profits  —  Staff at Future, the owner of magazines …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Analysis: 60% of 48K online news articles and 47% of 5.5K TV clips in the UK mentioning Muslims or Islam made negative associations with the religion  —  The editors of The Sunday Times and Daily Mirror have backed a report that found almost 60% of online news articles made negative associations …
Karen Rundlet / Knight Foundation:
Knight Foundation will fund NewsMatch for three more years with $3.5M; INN: in 2020, NewsMatch helped 260 nonprofit newsrooms raise $47M+  —  An interesting trend emerged in U.S. journalism in 2016: concerned citizens began sending unsolicited donations to newsrooms to support journalism outlets.
Poynter:
Alden nominates three directors for Lee Enterprises' eight-person board, like it did before acquiring Tribune; nominees will be considered at Lee's next meeting  —  Alden previously gained seats on the board of Tribune Publishing as part of its strategy for acquiring control of that company.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ViacomCBS says it will sell CBS Studio Center for $1.85B to investment firms Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management
Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Afghan press watchdog NAI says over 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations closed in the first 100 days of Taliban rule, and ~70% of journalists lost their jobs
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
With signs that Trump could run again and the GOP widely adopting his political style, some journalists are debating ways to avoid the mistakes of 2016 and 2020
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Some stories are quickly labeled as “misinformation”, but it's the job of reporters to explain what's happening, even if it's messy and unsatisfying
Reuters:
Documents: China's Henan province commissions a 3,000-camera surveillance system to track journalists, international students, and other “suspicious people”
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Disney+ in Hong Kong does not include a 2005 episode from season 16 of The Simpsons that ridicules Chinese government censorship
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

 
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