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9:30 AM ET, November 30, 2017

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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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Matt Lauer apologizes for his behavior and admits there is “enough truth” to the allegations to feel ashamed in statement timed for the “Today” show broadcast  —  Watch how Matt Lauer covered sexual harassment  —  A day after NBC announced his termination …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Reliance on network TV star anchors helped drive revenue, but also created conditions for power imbalances and incentivized networks to condone bad behavior  —  Matt Lauer, of NBC News, played the easygoing dad you could rely on — fun-loving but serious enough when he had to be.
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 …
Washington Post:
Project Veritas' Jaime Phillips, who tried to plant a false story about Roy Moore, spent months trying to infiltrate The Post and other media in Washington, NY  —  The failed effort by conservative activists to plant a false story about Senate candidate Roy Moore in The Washington Post …
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Keith Plocek / LA Weekly:
LA Weekly posts article questioning ownership of the paper and the motives for layoffs  —  Who owns the publication you're reading right now?  —  It's a question you should ask no matter what you're reading.  In Latin there's a phrase, cui bono, which roughly translates as “who is benefiting?”
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Lauren Raab / Los Angeles Times:
Editorial staff at LA Weekly gutted: 9 of 13 employees lost jobs on Wednesday as Voice Media Group completed sale to Semanal Media  —  LA Weekly's latest Best of L.A. issue came out in October.  Nine of the 13 members of the editorial staff lost their jobs Wednesday as Voice Media group completed its sale of the publication.
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 …
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.
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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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Memo: BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti says the company is restructuring its business operations to help diversify its revenue streams beyond native advertising
Discussion: @pkafka and Ad Age
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
Plex updates DVR with an option to automatically detect and remove commercials from recordings, warns it may take a “long time” and increase CPU usage  —  Over the weekend Plex updated their DVR fixing bugs and including a new feature.  Now with this most recent update …
 
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