MediaGuardian’s top stories
Sainsbury’s joins Christmas ad battle with animation and James Corden
Mark Zuckerberg vows more action to tackle fake news on Facebook
Brexit vote had negligible impact on advertising, says WPP
Andrew Marr defends Remembrance Sunday Marine Le Pen interview
Trump uses Twitter to bash New York Times coverage and letter to subscribers
Waitrose makes a John Lewis journey with moving Christmas ad
Lego ‘not planning’ any future tie-ins with Daily Mail after protests
Gary Lineker in talks with Walkers crisps over Sun advertising
New drama The Crown launches with a title sequence fit for a Queen
Soaring Disney Studios hopes for $7bn fairytale ending to its year
Best of the rest
Doctor Who due a major shake-up as bosses aim for ‘brand new show’ in 2018 (Mirror)
Bertelsmann to double investments in China, India and Brazil to €1bn (Financial Times £)
How an unknown agency came from nowhere to score America’s two biggest media accounts (AdWeek)
Great British Bake Off launches legal bid to defy BBC’s 12-month ban and get show on air sooner (Mirror)
Dan Rather on the role of journalists after ‘the election of a generation’ (Poynter)
And finally...
President-elect Donald Trump may be considered a gift to satire, but he’s also got a lot of comedians pretty worried. At least John Oliver’s long-time podcasting partner, Andy Zaltzman, has some calming words in his Media Guardian interview: “Who knows? Maybe beneath the external lunatic there’s a more moderate, even-minded lunatic that we just haven’t seen yet.”
