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4:05 AM ET, December 1, 2017

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Politico:
NBC's shifting statements about Matt Lauer draw scrutiny: second statement noted that “current management” had not received complaints before Monday  —  After saying there were no complaints over 20 years, the network later stressed no complaints to ‘current management.’
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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
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
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Project Veritas' attempted sting against the Washington Post highlights the ethical questions of using deception in reporting  —  What the latest Project Veritas flop can teach us about undercover media work.  —  Project Veritas went undercover and got buried in its own muck this week.
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Time Inc. announces it has sold Sunset magazine to Regent, a private equity firm in Beverly Hills; sales of Essence, Golf, and Time Inc. UK are also pending  —  Sunset magazine, founded in 1898 as a way to lure travelers West and which went on to help generations live their best California lives, has a new owner.
Discussion: Eater
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Memo: Vice News fires three employees amid investigations into sexual harassment  —  Vice Media fired three employees on Thursday amid a probe into sexual harassment and improper workplace conduct, according to a memo obtained by CNNMoney.  —  Vice did not name the employees.
Discussion: Mediaite and @thegarance
Ivana Kottasová / CNNMoney:
Twitter says it didn't delete anti-Muslim tweets retweeted by Trump because it makes occasional exceptions to rules so people can see every side of an issue  —  Outrage after Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos  —  President Trump has been heavily criticized for his decision to retweet three graphic anti-Muslim videos.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Fire TV adds support for voice commands on third-party apps, including Hulu, NBC, Bravo, Showtime, Sony PlayStation Vue, and CBS All Access  —  Amazon Fire TV owners will now be able to control more video apps using Alexa and their voice, the company announced today.
Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg:
Judge says Thiel can't stop legal probe into his role in Gawker's demise, but says Thiel can bid on remaining assets, including litigation claims against him  —  Investigation of billionaire's role in bankruptcy can proceed  —  Gawker estate says claims against Thiel may be worth millions
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Sources: Sinclair is close to accepting DoJ remedies for approval of $6.6B buyout by selling 13 Tribune stations, though it hopes only to sell 10  —  Sinclair Broadcasting is close to accepting a remedy proposed by President Trump's Department of Justice to allow its $6.6 billion buyout …
Discussion: FierceCable
Matt Pressberg / The Wrap:
Liberty Global invests in movie distributor STX, which is aiming for a Hong Kong IPO; Bruce Mann, Liberty's chief programming officer, to join the STX board  —  Independent distributor STX, which is heading toward a Hong Kong IPO, has secured an investment from telecom giant Liberty Global, the company announced Thursday.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Variety
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
No black women were listed among 683 panelists at Business Insider's annual digital and media conference established in 2010, though some invites issued, per BI  —  The annual gathering of media and digital industry leaders appears to have a blind spot.  —  Since 2010, just after Thanksgiving each year …
Discussion: @britnidwrites and @spicepirate00
 
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Discussion: Nieman Lab
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a “mistake”
 

 
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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

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

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
 
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