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11:10 PM ET, December 7, 2020

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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
WarnerMedia's decision to debut 2021 films on HBO Max had blindsided creatives and their reps; sources: Warner Bros. COO Carolyn Blackwood came up with the plan  —  To many insiders, WarnerMedia's blindsiding of talent and their reps with a reveal that it's sending 17 films directly to HBO Max in 2021 felt like an insult.
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Variety:
Sources: Legendary, which co-financed Dune, is considering suing Warner Bros. over its decision to release movies simultaneously on HBO Max and in cinemas  —  Legendary Entertainment, the production company that co-financed “Dune” and “Godzilla vs. Kong,” may take legal action against Warner Bros …
Wall Street Journal:
MSNBC names SVP of News Rashida Jones as its next president, the first Black executive to run a major cable news network; Phil Griffin will leave in January  —  Mr. Griffin, who has been with the cable news network for 25 years, will leave after the end of January
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
After Google's announcement in May that it would start blocking “heavy” ads in Chrome, it is now blocking some ads that publishers sell if they hog resources  —  On some recent business day, The New York Times sold an ad to a company.  I can't tell you the name of the company …
David Smiley / Miami Herald:
Monica R. Richardson has been named the new executive editor of the Miami Herald, the first Black executive editor in its 117-year history  —  The Miami Herald's parent company named a new executive editor on Monday to lead its newsrooms in Florida — a 30-year veteran of the news business …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Sources: Michael Pack is planning a purge at USAGM, pushing for the removal of agency officials whom he put on administrative leave, before Biden is sworn in  —  - President Donald Trump's federal media agency CEO is attempting one last purge before Joe Biden is sworn in as the next commander-in-chief.
Discussion: @schwartzbcnbc
Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News:
This year, disinformation about the pandemic, BLM protests, and the election divided the US, with “Plandemic” as a case study of social networks' failures  —  Disinformation and its fallout have defined 2020, the year of the infodemic.  Month after month, self-serving social media companies …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Tom Lowell, formerly a producer of Megyn Kelly's shows, named executive VP and managing editor of news at Fox News, will oversee daytime news editorial content  —  “From creating the top-rated morning news program 'America's Newsroom' in 2007 to leading newsgathering, Tom has made a formidable impact …
Discussion: @bristei, The Wrap and nexttv.com
Jeff Jones / Knight Foundation:
Survey: 59% of Americans say media was responsible in reporting election results; 63%, including 17% of Republicans, believed media projections of Biden's win  —  The 2020 election was marked by severe political divisions, a public health crisis, unease about the voting process …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Universal Music says it has acquired Bob Dylan's entire music catalog of over 600 songs; the deal is estimated to be worth over $300M  —  Universal Music purchased his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs in what may be the biggest acquisition ever of a single act's publishing rights.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
As Trump leaves global press freedom in tatters, Biden needs to be bold, including appointing an envoy for press freedom and reintroducing daily press briefings  —  When Donald Trump first started accusing the mainstream media of dealing in “fake news,” it was impossible to know the long-term effects of this rhetoric.
Discussion: @sulliview, Fox News and @froomkin
David Gilbert / VICE:
At Trump's rally in Georgia on Saturday, people were seen distributing a truckload of Epoch Times papers, spreading the same baseless conspiracies as Trump  —  The Epoch Times is getting its pro-Trump propaganda out the old-fashioned way.  —  DG  —  On Saturday evening in Valdosta …
Discussion: @daithaigilbert
 
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Ellen Peirson-Hagger / New Statesman:
Bookshop.org, considered an “ethical” alternative to Amazon, faces increasing skepticism from independent booksellers who say they earn more via direct sales
Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
Inside Disney's costly online push while its lucrative legacy businesses decline, as sources say the success of Disney+ diminished Disney's interest in Hulu
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Former colleagues share how a powerful Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter, Michael Fuoco, got away with sexual misconduct for years as his paper, union ignored it