December 7, 2017

WNYC puts two hosts on indefinite leave during harassment investigation

This story, plus publishers scaling back global expansion plans, The Weekly Standard to aid in Facebook fact checking, and more, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Dec 6, 2017

WNYC hosts Leonard Lopate, Jonathan Schwartz put on leave amid investigation

Brian Stelter / CNN

Dec 7, 2017

Publisher pivot to reality casts doubts on global expansion plans

Lucia Moses / Digiday

Dec 6, 2017

Conservative Weekly Standard to aid in Facebook fact-checks, prompting outcry

Sam Levin / The Guardian

Press & Government

Dec 6, 2017

View: The FCC is swiftly changing national media policy. What does that mean on the local level?

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Journalism Lab

Dec 6, 2017

ABC reprimands producer for giving data to Trump campaign

Michael Calderone / Politico

Dec 6, 2017

Jason Van Dyke attorneys want Chicago journalist’s Laquan McDonald sources revealed

Leah Hope, Megan Hickey / ABC 7 Chicago

Media Business

Dec 6, 2017

New York Times sues Weinstein Company for over $200G in unpaid advertising

Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News

Online Media

Dec 7, 2017

View: The live-streamers who are challenging traditional journalism

Andrew Marantz / The New Yorker

International

Dec 6, 2017

Journalists denied entry to Honduras say US Embassy told them to ‘figure it out’

Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review

Dec 6, 2017

Neo-fascists throw flares at Italy’s Repubblica in ‘war’

Nicole Winfield / Associated Press