Variety exclusive: The enabled domination of Matt Lauer

Headline by Back to Facts. Variety went with a direct approach for their actual headline: Matt Lauer accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. Although they relied almost exclusively on anonymous sources, Variety reporters Ramin Setoodeh and Elizabeth Wagmeister detail a pattern of abuse of power by Matt Lauer to get women in bed (or anywhere else) in sexual trysts that span decades.

One notable charge, which is sourced anonymously, is that Lauer was able to have sexual rendezvous in his office because he had an automatic door lock under his desk.

AP's 'bang-up' exclusive: FBI did not inform hacking victims

By TATIANA PROPHET

A journalism professor of mine used the term "bang-up job" as high praise for the very best in journalism.

This article by the Associated Press is just that -- "a bang-up job." Reporters for the AP went the extra mile to uncover the names of government personnel whose personal Gmail accounts were hacked by the notorious hacking ring "Fancy Bear," so named by cyber-security company Crowdstrike because they deduced it came from Russia.