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5:30 PM ET, December 27, 2013

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Steve Eder / New York Times:
ESPN received $260M in tax breaks and credits over 12 years to remain in Connecticut  —  For ESPN, Millions to Remain in Connecticut  —  BRISTOL, Conn. — The governor of Connecticut arrived at ESPN's expansive campus here to celebrate the groundbreaking of the sports media giant's 19th building …
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune closes $2.7B Local TV acquisition … Tribune Co. has closed on its $2.73 billion acquisition of Local TV, making it one of the country's largest television station owners, the company announced Friday.  —  The deal, which was approved by the Federal Communications Commission last week …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and TVSpy
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Tribune Closes Acquisition of Local TV Holdings  —  Company Completes Final Steps of Transaction Announced in July Tribune Company announced today that it has completed the final steps necessary to close its acquisition of Local TV Holdings, LLC.  The transaction creates …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Game of Thrones tops 2013 BitTorrent downloads as piracy debate continues within TV networks  —  ‘Game of Thrones’ Most Pirated TV-Show of 2013  —  Game of Thrones has the honor of becoming the most downloaded TV-show for the second year in a row.  —  With 5.9 million downloads via BitTorrent …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Rdio Shuts Down Video-Streaming Site Vdio, Offers Amazon Credits As Reimbursement For Purchases  —  It's only been six months since Rdio launched its video-streaming platform Vdio to the world, but it appears that the company has already decided to give up on that experiment.
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Major Recording Labels Prepare to Sue Russia's Facebook  —  For several years, vKontakte, Russia's social networking giant, has been marked as a piracy enabler by rightsholders and even the U.S. Government.  —  In several Special 301 Reports published by the United States Trade Representative …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson aren't protected by copyright, US court rules  —  Sherlock Holmes' status as a copyrighted character is easily as complicated as any of the cases he's had to solve.  Created over 125 years ago, Holmes would remain a fixture in author Arthur Conan Doyle's work until the late 1920s.
Discussion: ArtsBeat, Open Culture and Guardian
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Bye bye, bile?  Websites try to nix nasty comments  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Mix blatant bigotry with poor spelling.  Add a dash of ALL CAPS.  Top it off with a violent threat.  And there you have it: A recipe for the worst of online comments, scourge of the Internet.  —  Blame anonymity, blame politicians, blame human nature.
Discussion: bizjournals and Mediaite
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Upcoming DJX news offering and integration with WSJ newsroom make 2014 critical for Dow Jones  —  Dow Jones' ‘make or break’ 2014  —  Dow Jones is gearing up for a potentially pivotal 2014.  —  The 131-year-old financial information and media company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal …
The Stream:
New report exposes digital front of Syria's civil war … Washington D.C.  —  Adults and children alike flock to the U.S. Botanical Garden in Washington, DC to see the model train display  —  A growing number of Americans don't identify with a religion.  Some see Christmas as a cultural, not religious, holiday.
Discussion: @headhntr and @azmatzahra
Jeremy Barr / Poynter:
As fewer people read newspapers, more share their front pages  —  Newspapers are dying.  But their front pages aren't.  —  At a time when print advertising revenue continues to decline and publications are laying off staff in droves, newspaper covers are increasingly being shared digitally …
 
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Aleksandar Vasovic / Reuters:
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Muhammad Saleem / VentureBeat:
Why ‘viral mills’ like Buzzfeed & Upworthy are content marketing at its worst
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You
Discussion: Mediashift, Slate and GalleyCat
Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
Look Who's Gawking: Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers
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Reuters:
UN urges Thailand to drop defamation and computer crimes charges against two journalists
Discussion: United Nations and AAP
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Decrypting TV's year-end executive memos
Luke O'Neil / Esquire:
The year we broke the Internet: An explanation. An apology. A plea.
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
It's official: CBS News correspondent John Miller joining NYPD
Merril Brown / Forbes:
Patch's Biggest Blunder: Ignoring Cities
Discussion: Street Fight
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

 
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