Mediagazer: Village Media, relying on local advertisers, seems to have found a scalable (and profitable) local news model (Christine Schmidt/Nieman Lab)

8:25 AM ET, November 22, 2017

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Memo: CBS President David Rhodes says the network has terminated Charlie Rose's employment, effective immediately — CBS News has terminated its relationship Charlie Rose on Tuesday, one day after the Washington Post reported multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against the longtime news show host.

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The Royal Tenenbaums, a 2001 film by Wes Anderson with a character believed to be based on Charlie Rose, may have alluded to the star's behavior — One scene in Wes Anderson's 2001 comedy-drama is going viral following sexual harassment allegations made against journalist Charlie Rose.

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

PBS cancels distribution of Charlie Rose's long-running interview program after sexual harassment claims — PBS said it would cease to air the long-running and award-winning interview program “Charlie Rose” in the wake of claims of sexual harassment levied at the program's venerable host.

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Washington Post:
Eight women who worked for or aspired to work with Charlie Rose on his eponymous show say he sexually harassed them with nudity, groping, and lewd calls

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
On CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose's co-hosts Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell denounced his alleged behavior and discussed the allegations against him

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CEO of popular app HQ Trivia, Rus Yusupov, repeatedly told reporter that the app's star host, a contractor, could be fired for talking to press, then denied it — Every day, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world fire up their smartphones and log onto HQ, a live trivia app …

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Jennifer Maas / The Wrap:

36 female SNL staffers who worked with Senator Al Franken, who was a writer for the show, released a statement of public support for him — Senator Al Franken may not be getting support from a lot of the female population right now, but at least 36 women have got his back.

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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

Village Media, relying on local advertisers, seems to have found a scalable (and profitable) local news model — “We have to find new and creative ways to not replace a client's Google and Facebook spend but find our own portion of it.” — Village Media is doing that weird thing …

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

BuzzFeed's Ben Smith says news outlets cannot ignore newsworthy info no matter the source, explaining why BuzzFeed used congressional docs from Cernovich — Journalism can make for strange bedfellows. Case in point: BuzzFeed and Mike Cernovich. — Cernovich — a controversial far-right figure …

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Reuters:

Russia says it could act against Google if Sputnik, RT get lower search rankings, after Eric Schmidt said “those kinds of websites” should have less prominence — SAN FRANCISCO/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin will take action against Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) …

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Justin Ling / Motherboard:
Eric Schmidt says Google News is working to derank Russian propaganda, naming RT and Sputnik, and adding Google doesn't want to ban the sites

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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:

Sources: Vice employees were enraged after CEO Smith failed to address sexual harassment in recent company presentation, amid fears of an upcoming NYT exposé — After a disastrous state of the union and amid rumors of another sexual harassment story, the media group is already doing damage control.

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

How Mashable flamed out: loss of editorial focus, lack of financial controls, an ill-executed shift to video, and hesitance to diversify revenue — Few images better capture the unfettered optimism and indignity of digital media than 2014 at South by Southwest, where a line …

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