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6:15 AM ET, December 30, 2014

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David Carr / New York Times:
NYT CEO Mark Thompson, Phil Griffin, and other media execs face myriad challenges in 2015  —  Media Companies (and Executives) on the Hot Seat in 2015  —  While it's great news that the economy is (slowly) coming back, it's important to remember that a rising tide does not necessarily lift all boats.
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
How Emerson Spartz builds viral sites that grab Facebook traffic using headline testing and other people's memes  —  The Virologist  —  How a young entrepreneur built an empire by repackaging memes.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple introduces 14-day no questions asked refunds for App Store & iTunes in EU countries  —  Apple has recently introduced a new 14-day no questions asked return policy for iTunes, App Store and iBooks purchases in Europe including the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and many other EU countries.
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Washington Post hopes to generate more revenue by licensing its content management system to other news organizations  —  Here's A New, Inventive Way Jeff Bezos Plans To Make Money From The Washington Post  —  When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 …
Aida Cerkez / Associated Press:
On court order, police raid Bosnian news portal  —  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Police raided the offices of a news portal Monday searching for clues about how journalists had obtained a recording of a phone conversation that said the governing Bosnian Serb party allegedly bribed …
Discussion: OSCE, InSerbia News and @marcelvdsteen
Karl Bode / Techdirt:
Dish, Fox News Feud Again Illustrates How The Cable TV Industry Is Digging Its Own Grave  —  If you have cable you've probably been exposed to one of the increasingly ugly retransmission fee disputes occurring between cable operators and broadcasters.  They usually go something like this …
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Kent Babb / Washington Post:
Donte Stallworth, former NFL wide receiver, working as a Huffington Post fellow  —  Donte Stallworth was on his morning commute last month, a five-block morning ritual in this attempt at a new life, when he walked past the White House's north lawn.  He smiled as he recalled an old memory.
Anjali Shastry / American Journalism Review:
How news organizations like Washington Post, Newsweek, NPR, and BBC use Tumblr to connect with audiences and document experiments in journalism  —  The Growing Power of Tumblr — For News  —  On a recent day, The Washington Post Twitter account is a drumbeat of news about a Supreme Court …
National Journal:
Analysis of Drudge Report in 2014 shows top headline terms and top linked sites: Yahoo News, Breitbart, AP, NYT, Washington Post, Daily Mail  —  2014, According to the Drudge Report  —  We mined the Drudge Report archives for the top headline terms of the year.  —  Don't doubt the influence of Matt Drudge.
Discussion: @b_resnick, @ajjaffe and @mlcalderone
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast Tries to Emulate YouTube With Web Series “73 Questions”  —  2014 has been the year of many things, including the Year That Traditional Media and Advertising Found Out There Are YouTube Stars.  —  Meanwhile, it's also been the year that everybody in traditional media …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
U.S. court approves Condé Nast $5.85 mln intern pay settlement  —  Condé Nast on Monday won a federal judge's preliminary approval to pay $5.85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by thousands of former interns who claimed the magazine publisher underpaid them.
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
Homicide Watch D.C. will shut down Wednesday after failing to find a local partner or owner  —  The death of Homicide Watch D.C.: Bloggers take their last case  —  Homicide Watch D.C., a much-praised combination of true crime blog, case log, document dump and victim memorial …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Starts Streaming “The Interview”, Too  —  It took Apple a few days, but it's joining the club: Starting today, iTunes users in the U.S. and Canada and rent and purchase “The Interview”, Sony's controversial comedy.  —  The movie became available at Apple's store at 1pm eastern today.
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Sony says ‘The Interview’ was rented or purchased more than 2M times, generated over $15M in online sales
 
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Comcast-TWC merger looks less likely amid growing opposition, concern over state of US broadband
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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Buzzfeed gets $4 M. tax credit to expand (and stay) in New York
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Michelle Moghtader / Reuters:
Iran to expand Internet “smart filtering” to censor content without banning entire websites
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals

 
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