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8:15 PM ET, December 10, 2014

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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 …
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook expanding Trending to mobile and separates news from what friends are discussing  —  Facebook Is Pushing Harder Into Breaking News  —  Facebook is making a play for news junkies.  —  The social network expanded its trending tool Wednesday, the feature that tells users what topics …
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 …
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 …
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Guardian:
Alan Rusbridger appointed chair of The Scott Trust  —  Award-winning editor-in-chief to stand down after 20 years  —  The Scott Trust, which safeguards the editorial future and independence of the Guardian, has appointed Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, to succeed Dame Liz Forgan as its chair.
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 …
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
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How the mid-2000s dream of the “citizen journalist” mutated into a dangerous trend of digital citizen policing.  —  Citizen journalism was one of the great dreams of the mid-2000s internet.  Just as blogs had given anyone with an internet connection and a keyboard a platform …
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.
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Michelle Starr / CNET:
Pirate Bay knocked offline worldwide following police raid
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.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge gives US Justice Department a deadline of Dec. 16 to decide whether it will subpoena NYT reporter James Risen  —  Judge sets deadline for James Risen subpoena  —  A federal judge is giving Attorney General Eric Holder one week to decide whether to press forward with the Justice …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New York Times Considering New Print Sections, Wants More Native Ads on Mobile  —  Paper Previously Trimmed Sections to Reduce Costs  —  TV and Technology  —  The New York Times is looking at native advertising, sponsorships and video to wring more money from readers coming to the Times …
Leela de Kretser / Capital New York:
Once a bright spot, NBCNews Digital looks headed for a too-common fate  —  News executives on the rise at any TV network love to use the word “integration.”  After decades of being laughed at for their crappy news websites and Byzantine structures for gathering and disseminating the news …
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Youku Tudou, One Of China's Leading Streaming Video Sites, Launches Its First Hardware Line  —  Youku Tudou, already one of China's largest streaming video sites, is moving into hardware as well.  The company said that its first three devices—a WiFi router, smart TV box, and 15.6-inch Android tablet—will be available next January.
 
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
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