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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 …
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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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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.
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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 …
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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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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Media companies, from upstarts like BuzzFeed to the NYT, face a correction and must continue to diversify revenue; counting on unlimited VC money spells doom — Agony is the natural state of the news industry. Newspaper sales per capita peaked before color television was a thing …
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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.
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Hollywood Reporter:
CNN fires senior producer Teddy Davis, who worked on State of the Union hosted by Jake Tapper, after claims of inappropriate behavior — “The behavior attributed to Mr. Davis does not align with the standards and values of CNN," the network said in a statement.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a “mistake” — s Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information …
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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 …
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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.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces Reels, a version of the Stories format available in a separate tab that lets creators post shorter videos, available in beta — Even YouTube is adding Stories. The popular format introduced by Snapchat, then adopted by Instagram, Skype, Facebook, Messenger and even some dating apps …
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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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