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4:25 PM ET, December 24, 2014

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Netflix in Talks to Stream ‘The Interview’ (EXCLUSIVE)  —  YouTube, Google Play and Xbox will also offer the Sony comedy  —  Netflix is in talks with Sony Pictures to stream “The Interview” to its subscribers.  If a deal comes together, the movie would not be available day and date …
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Krishnadev Calamur / NPR:
The Interview now available to rent for $5.99 or purchase for $14.99 through YouTube, Google Play, Xbox Video, and SeeTheInterview.com  —  Sony To Stream ‘The Interview’ On YouTube, Other Sites Starting Tonight  —  Sony Pictures' The Interview, the comedy that centers on a plot to assassinate …
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Sony announces The Interview will play in select theaters Christmas day
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Ex-News of the World journalists given go ahead to sue for unfair dismissal  —  Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup get green light from employment tribunals to take action against News Group Newspapers  —  Two former News of the World journalists who were jailed for hacking the phones …
Yoani Sánchez / Nieman Reports:
How Cuba's network of independent and citizen journalists keeps the country informed  —  How Cuba's network of independent and citizen journalists keeps the country informed  —  Yoani Sanchez, center, labeled on a banner as an anti-Cuba mercenary, speaks in Brazil in 2013
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
2015 predictions: Comcast offloads NBCU, Facebook airs TV shows, Rupert Murdoch “retires”  —  8 Hollywood Predictions for 2015  —  The beautiful thing about predictions for the new year is that nobody predicts a continuing muddle.  And yet confusion and untidiness …
Lisa Campbell / Bookseller News:
Simon & Schuster allows libraries in UK, Australia, and New Zealand to lend full 14K ebook catalog  —  S&S UK permits library e-lending for all titles  —  Simon & Schuster UK is to allow libraries to lend its full catalogue of nearly 14,000 e-book titles, effective immediately.
Discussion: @thebookseller and LJ INFOdocket
Todd Spangler / Variety:
DirecTV, Disney Ink Multiyear Pact That Includes Internet-Video Rights  —  The Walt Disney Co. and DirecTV have reached a multiyear distribution deal, which gives the No. 1 satellite TV broadcaster rights to ESPN, ABC and Disney Channel online-video services.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
AP denies Pyongyang bureau under North Korean control  —  The Associated Press is pushing back on a report its bureau in North Korea is nearly completely controlled by the North Korean government.  —  In a lengthy article for NKNews.org, Nate Thayer, a former AP stringer …
Discussion: NK News, Foreign Policy and Mediaite
Bloomberg:
Sony explored selling its music publishing division that includes Sony/ATV and EMI, represents works by the Beatles, Michael Jackson, others  —  Sony Planned to Sell Music-Publishing Unit Owning Beatles  —  Sony Corp. was considering the sale of its music-publishing business …
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Meet Val Broeksmit, the rock singer Sony is threatening to sue over his hacking tweets  —  Just when you think nothing else about the Sony hacking episode can surprise you, along comes another bizarre twist.  —  The latest involves Sony making legal threats against indie singer …
Diana Mehta / Canadian Press:
Imprisoned Al Jazeera journalist warned network of potential trouble with Egyptian government  —  Fahmy warned Al Jazeera that tactics could come back to ‘bite’ them  —  An Egyptian-Canadian journalist who has spent the last year in a Cairo prison sounded the alarm about his network's approach …
Discussion: TVNewser and CP24
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Nancy Scola / Washington Post:
FCC accidentally omitted 680,000 Open Internet comments from public record due to technical error, will post new, complete file in new year
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
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