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5:30 PM ET, November 29, 2017

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Memo from NBC News Chairman Andy Lack: “Today” anchor Matt Lauer has been fired following a complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behaviour  —  NBC “Today” star Matt Lauer, the highest paid personality in TV news, was fired following “a detailed complaint …
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Variety:
NBC sources describe Lauer's transgressions: lewd comments, invitations to his hotel room late at night on assignment, and dropping his pants in his office  —  As the co-host of NBC's “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present.  It included an explicit note about how he wanted …
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Video: “Today” co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb share Matt Lauer's firing on Wednesday's show; Guthrie says they are devastated  —  Matt Lauer, the anchor of “Today” for two decades, was fired by NBC News after a detailed complaint about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.
Jeff Baenen / Associated Press:
Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion”, says he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” said Wednesday he has been fired …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed to cut ~100 jobs, mostly business-side roles in its US and UK offices, as it faces a revenue shortfall; President Greg Coleman to step down  —  CEO Jonah Peretti aims to diversify revenue sources beyond native advertising  —  Facing a significant revenue shortfall this year …
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Shira Ovide / Bloomberg:
Snapchat's redesign likely won't appeal to new users, despite goal of growing users, and may alienate media partners by separating content from friend messages  —  The messaging service can't seem to decide whether to cater to avid users or appeal to a broader audience.
John Skipper / ESPN Front Row:
Memo: ESPN President John Skipper announces 150 layoffs, mainly in studio production, digital content, and technology  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: ESPN President John Skipper shared this message with employees this morning.  —  Today we are informing approximately 150 people at ESPN that their jobs are being eliminated.
Deadline:
Sources: John Lasseter's conduct with women went beyond “uninvited hugs” to groping; Disney had a handler attend events with him to supervise his behavior  —  In the wake of John Lasseter's announcement that he would take a six-month leave from Disney-Pixar Animation …
Discussion: Vanity Fair and IndieWire
New York Times:
Sources: Trump continues to privately harbor a handful of conspiracy theories with no grounding in fact, including doubting the Access Hollywood tape  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly after his victory last year, Donald J. Trump began revisiting one of his deepest public humiliations: the infamous …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Wired Magazine is launching a metered paywall in January; EIC Nicholas Thompson says a price has not been set yet, but it will be less than $9.99 a month  —  Wired magazine plans to introduce a metered paywall in January, which may precede online subscriptions at other Condé Nast publications
Discussion: Folio, @rafat and @nxthompson
Rebecca Lurye / Hartford Courant:
Campus police arrest Lucian Wintrich, WH correspondent for Gateway Pundit, after his UConn talk was interrupted, and he appeared to grab a woman, starting brawl  —  Lucian Wintrich, White House correspondent for the far-right website Gateway Pundit, was arrested by UConn police after an altercation …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Arguments against FCC's Net Neutrality rollback miss that regulation incurs opportunity costs and more attention should be paid to inter-ISP competition  —  Note: This post was previously titled “Why Ajit Pai is Right.”  I have changed it to reflect my interest in a substantive debate, not flame-throwing.
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Tony Romm / Recode:
FCC's Pai says tech giants like Twitter and Facebook use “the regulatory process to cement their dominance” and pose biggest threat to online speech, not ISPs
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Project Veritas, the organization that tried to dupe WaPo into writing a fake story about Roy Moore, received $20K from Trump's charitable org in 2015  —  James O'Keefe's organisation specialising in media stings received donations from Trump's foundation but was caught red-handed peddling a false story
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Sources: DHS is investigating whether 6 staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency

Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Source: OpenAI's share of revenue after the cost of running AI models for paying users has jumped to ~70% in October, up from ~52% at the end of 2024
 
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