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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Source: Google acquired Oyster's tech, discovery tools, and editorial content, including literary magazine The Oyster Review, but not its publisher contracts — Google's grab of Oyster suggests ebooks, like news, are becoming “content” read on big platforms
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Mashable, @janefriedman, @laurahazardowen, @losowsky, @willyblackmore, Fortune and Oyster HQ Blog
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Netflix-like e-book subscription service Oyster to shut down; part of team moving to Google Play Books, including CEO and co-founders according to sources
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook ramps up its Instant Articles as Washington Post says it will publish all of its articles on Facebook and over a dozen new publishers join — Facebook Ramps Up Its Instant Articles, and the Washington Post Is All In — Last spring Facebook started hosting stories from the New York Times …
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Washington Post, TechCrunch, Facebook Developers, Poynter, The Verge, The Next Web, Mashable, @mashablehq, @fmanjoo, @pkafka, @jyarow, @caseynewton and @sfiegerman
Jason McIntyre / The Big Lead:
Sources: 200-300 layoffs coming to ESPN within the next few months, as Disney has notified ESPN to trim $100M from the 2016 budget — Layoffs are coming to ESPN. — Multiple sources inside and outside of ESPN tell The Big Lead that the network will be laying off “200 to 300” employees in the coming months.
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Deadline, The Wrap, Variety, @jeffschultzajc, FishbowlNY, @realobf and Media Wire Daily
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
Ta-Nehisi Coates to Write Black Panther Comic for Marvel — Ta-Nehisi Coates can be identified in many ways: as a national correspondent for The Atlantic, as an author and, as of this month, as a nominee for the National Book Award's nonfiction prize. But Mr. Coates also has a not-so-secret identity …
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Forbes, Mediaite, Variety, Paper, Talking Points Memo, Polygon, Tor.com, The Verge, @justinnxt, @leonardpittsjr1, Shadow and Act, Boing Boing, @mattegagnon, @skylightbooks and Comicbook.com
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing pleads its case with investors; share price falls further — Tribune Publishing hosted a brief “investor update” call Tuesday, making more explicit its earlier statements that the Los Angeles Times was under-performing financially and dragging down company-wide results.
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CNN, Politico, @rickedmonds, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Poynter
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Complex, a network of pop culture magazines, raises $21M from Hearst — Another Old Media-New Media Bet: Hearst Invests $21 Million in Dude-Centric Complex — Big media companies have lots of cash. But they're worried that won't help them if they can't find new audiences.
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CNNMoney, Variety, Media Wire Daily, Folio, FishbowlNY, Crain's New York, Ad Age and WWD
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: Axel Springer within weeks of closing deal for full control of Business Insider, valuing it about $560M — Axel Springer Wants to Buy Business Insider for Around $560 Million — German publishing giant Axel Springer is closing in on buying Business Insider …
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USA Today, Quartz, Politico, Financial Times, @danroth, @ckrewson, Fortune, @mathewi, @brianstelter, InvestorPlace, @ritholtz, @mims, MediaPost, @jimwaterson, @colinmorrisonuk, @ejpfauth, The Wrap, PE Hub Blog, @pjozefak, @edmundlee, @jmcduling, @vb2b, @sub8u, @rafat, @profjeffjarvis, @howardlindzon and @mikeisaac
Sophia Yan / CNNMoney:
New York Times not available in Thailand on Tuesday after local printer declines to print it because of sensitive story about country's monarchy — Why you can't find today's New York Times in Thailand — The international edition of The New York Times wasn't printed Tuesday in Thailand.
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New York Times and NPR
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait announces global technology coverage reorganization under Brad Stone — Brad Stone, author of ‘The Everything Store,’ to lead Bloomberg's tech coverage — Brad Stone, the Bloomberg Businessweek senior writer and author of “The Everything Store …
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@satariano, @gerryfsmith, @benmullin and @justin_b_smith
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
VICE has invested heavily in coverage of the prison system, with a HBO documentary and more than 50 pieces to be published in coming weeks — Vice Went To Prison With Obama. Now It's Going Deep Into Inmate Issues. — “It was too good an opportunity not to throw the kitchen sink at it.”
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Google's appeal against global enforcement of right to be forgotten removals rejected by French data protection authority CNIL — French data regulator rejects Google's right-to-be-forgotten appeal — Search engine's attempt to block French order to apply delistings to its google.com domain …
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RSS CNIL, Business Insider, Gizmodo UK, Gizmodo and BetaNews
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Investigative reporting podcast Reveal works to expand its network beyond current five news partners as it prepares for weekly shows in January — A cross-country network helps Reveal boost its investigative reporting power — One of the great benefits of working in audio …
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@sacpressclub and @corriemac
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