Top News:
Allie Townsend / Facebook Media:
Facebook releases new tools for publishers to offer greater automation and better targeting, improves Insights, fixes referrer data bug for iOS — New Tools and Insights for Publishers — Over the past few months, we've listened to publishers around the world to better understand …
Discussion:
The Next Web, AdAge, @andrewmdooley, AllFacebook, @sriramk, Poynter, @lavrusik, @kelseyproud and @stkonrath
RELATED:
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook Gives Publishers New Tools, Hopes They'll Use Them to Give Facebook More Stuff — Facebook has been courting content companies for years, because it wants content companies to bring more of their content to Facebook. Here's a new example: A set of tools that will make it easier …
Discussion:
Digiday, Mashable, @mikeisaac, @mattbuchanan, @mims, @jaynawallace, @reynoldscj and @ahenkin
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook expanding Trending to mobile and separates news from what friends are discussing
Discussion:
Facebook, @fieldproducer, @lheron, @samir, The Whip, AllFacebook, Mashable, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and @jayrosen_nyu
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Alan Rusbridger to quit as ‘Guardian’ editor-in-chief after 20 years in role next summer — Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, is set to stand down from his current role at Guardian Media Group in the summer. — The Independent has learned that Rusbridger has discussed …
Discussion:
Guardian, New York Times, Press Gazette, Guardian, mUmBRELLA, @arusbridger, @karlremarks, @tom_watson, @davidfolkenflik, @paulxharris, @edmundlee, @themediatweets, @robinwigg, @moorehn, @jaspjackson, @jaspjackson, @helenpidd, @buzzfeedben, @stephenmossgdn, @benfenton, @marksweney, @helenpidd, @stephenmossgdn, @joepompeo, @emilybell, Financial Times, Polis, Politico, Metro.co.uk, Daily Mail, Cambridge News, The Drum, Spectator, Associated Press, BBC, WWD, Poynter, @johncassidy, @profjeffjarvis, @gerrylb, @janinegibson, @fmacqueen, @xlibris1, @davidbauer, @stephentall, @smyth_chris, @amolrajan and @adamwithnall
RELATED:
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Speculation swirls about Rusbridger's successor; Scott Trust will have final say after pitches — Alan Rusbridger's 20-year Guardian editorship nears its end — Alan Rusbridger, longtime editor in chief of The Guardian and the embodiment of its modern era, will step down from his post …
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Bloomberg Passed Over Its Top Woman Editor In Hiring A New Boss — When the memo dropped on Tuesday morning, Bloomberg's Manhattan newsroom went silent. Office banter ceased and keyboards stopped clacking, as reporters and editors read the note from Michael Bloomberg announcing …
Discussion:
@katienotopoulos, @thatcaseyquin, @sdkstl, @doreeshafrir and @emersongreg
RELATED:
John Waggoner / USA Today:
Bloomberg and Businessweek to merge websites into renamed Bloomberg Business
Discussion:
Financial Times, @joepompeo, FishbowlNY, Poynter, Talking Biz News, @joshuatopolsky and The Daily Beast
Alex Howard / E Pluribus Unum:
Deadline is Thursday for US House to pass Freedom of Information law reforms — With hours of sunshine left, passage of FOIA reform in the U.S. House hangs in the balance — Imagine if an important reform to public access to government information hung in the balance in the United States Congress …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google News to shut down in Spain Dec. 16 in response to recently passed Spanish copyright law — Strict New “Copyright Law” Forces End Of Google News In Spain — Google has decided to shut down Google News in Spain. This drastic step will occur next week and is the result …
Discussion:
Google Europe Blog, Guardian, TechCrunch, @candeira, VentureBeat, Electronista, CNET, @jeffjarvis, @gsterling, @dannysullivan, @jeffjarvis, @dangillmor, The Spain Report and @albertocairo
Press Association:
UK Home Office draft code of conduct would allow police access to journalist's phone records — Home Office draft code of conduct raises concern with media bodies — Draft publication states that communications data is not subject to professional privilege, as NUJ calls for ‘shield law’ to protect reporters from state snooping
Re/code:
Sources: Sony Pictures using AWS to execute denial-of-service attack on sites where its stolen data is available — Sony Pictures Tries to Disrupt Downloads of its Stolen Files — Sony Pictures Entertainment is fighting back. — The studio behind the “Spider-Man” franchise and …
Discussion:
New York Times, @jpnkevin_t, @csoghoian, @fmanjoo, @csoghoian, @dangillmor, @waltmossberg, @justinbrookman, @kevinmitnick, @eastdakota, Engadget and The Next Web
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nick Denton to institute new seven-person managing partnership at Gawker, names Tommy Craggs as editor — Gawker Media Shuffles Org Chart, Names Tommy Craggs Top Editor — Gawker Media has placed Tommy Craggs, who had previously run the blog network's Deadspin site …
Discussion:
The New York Observer, The Wrap, Politico, Capital New York, @jeffbercovici, @thestalwart, @wparker, @nicknotned, @dylanbyers, @mathewi, @lock, @mlcalderone, @nicknotned, @msjschweiz, @johngapper, Financial Times, Gigaom, Politico, @seanludwig, @chanders, @scottros, @weareyourfek, @jackdickey, @gaberivera, @koblin and @michaelroston
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde says he's happy to see site gone — “The site was ugly, full of bugs, old code and old design.” — One of the founders of The Pirate Bay (TPB) has bid good riddance to the site that he helped build a decade ago, which may have been definitively shuttered this week.
Discussion:
Copy me happy, VentureBeat, The Next Web, TorrentFreak, Techdirt, Washington Post, Washington Post, @brokep and ZDNet
Washington Post:
Detention taking ‘devastating toll’ on Post reporter detained in Iran — The prison cell that has been Jason Rezaian's home for most of the past 141 days has no mattress. He has slept on blankets on the hard floor and awakened each morning with back pain, for which he has received no treatment.
Discussion:
@rickgladstone, @anupkaphle, @postbaron, FishbowlDC, @swatigauri, @meridak and @anupkaphle
Accounting Specialist Editor, Remote US — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Asia Credit Reporter, Seoul — 
Senior Social Media Specialist, NC — 
Associate Editor - Aviation, TN — 
Assistant Editor - Digital, NC — 
Video Producer - YouTube, NY — 
Senior Managing Ed. - Daily Desk — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Content Managing Editor — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Associate Editor, Remote — 
Retail Reporter, MN — 
Managing Ed. - Berks County, PA — 
News Editor - UK, Remote — 
News Reporter, MA — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Service Journalism Editor, CA — 
Content Director, Remote — 
Los Angeles Issues Reporter, CA — 
Reporter - Middle East — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Lexington County Reporter, SC — 
Reporter - Offshore Wind — 
General Assignment Reporter, FL — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
