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8:25 PM ET, December 1, 2015

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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Huffington Post employees ask the company to voluntarily recognize their union, Writers Guild of America-East  —  Employees ask Huffington Post to recognize union  —  Huffington Post employees have asked the company to voluntarily recognize their union with the Writers Guild of America-East.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Chartbeat headline study shows formulaic rules don't necessarily improve click-through rates, but testing many alternative headlines significantly helps CTR  —  Most of your headline writing tricks don't work, apart from these two  —  Analytics firm Chartbeat has published a new study …
Discussion: Chartbeat Blog and @whatthebit
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Columbia University journalism dean Steve Coll disputes Exxon Mobil's criticism of journalists who produced climate report  —  Columbia Disputes Exxon Mobil on Climate Risk Articles  —  The dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on Tuesday rebutted accusations by Exxon Mobil …
Maria Sheahan / Reuters:
German magazine Der Spiegel is cutting one-fifth of its staff and adding a paywall, is considering launching a digital news service, other initiatives  —  Germany's Spiegel magazine to cut jobs, launch paywall  —  Dec 1 Germany's influential newsweekly Der Spiegel said on Tuesday …
Discussion: Phys.org
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
News Corp names Daily Telegraph Editor Paul Whittaker editor-in-chief of The Australian, replacing retiring Chris Mitchell; Chris Dore will replace Whittaker  —  Daily Telegraph's Paul Whittaker named editor-in-chief of the Australian  —  Whittaker takes over from long-standing chief …
Discussion: TheAustralian and mUmBRELLA
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How The Washington Post leapfrogged The New York Times in Web traffic  —  The Washington Post proclaimed itself “America's new publication of record” after it broke another online traffic record in October, surpassing The New York Times for the first time.  —  There are a lot of factors …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paid members  —  In the two years since it began publishing in the fall of 2013, the Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paying members, the site said Tuesday.  —  De Correspondent launched out of a crowdfunding effort in 2013 …
Discussion: Medium and @niemanlab
Agence France-Presse:
Local Thai printer removes article from front page of The International New York Times about Thailand's flagging economy  —  Blank spaces replace NYT article on flagging Thai economy  —  Bangkok (AFP) - The International New York Times said its printer in Thailand removed an article …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK regional newspaper publisher appoints first editor-in-chief, Jeremy Clifford, restructures and terminates regional managing director roles  —  Johnston Press appoints first group editor-in-chief as directors' roles go  —  Yorkshire Evening Post editor Jeremy Clifford takes up position …
Discussion: HoldTheFrontPage and Press Gazette
Keith Stuart / Guardian:
Why it's difficult to write comprehensive reviews about modern video games at launch  —  Has video game reviewing become an impossible task? … This month we have managed to shock a few readers by giving four of the year's biggest releases - Fallout 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Star Wars …
Garett Sloane / Digiday:
Snapchat finally enables publishers to ‘deep link’ to their Discover content  —  Snapchat's enabling its publishing partners to promote their channels on Facebook and Twitter with links directly to their content, the company said today.  —  The media partners, which include Hearst, IGN …
 
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Iterating Grace, a handwritten book mailed to Silicon Valley journalists and VCs in June, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; authors still anonymous
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
After acquisition by Verizon, AOL President Bob Lord, groomed as a successor to CEO Tim Armstrong, to leave company
Discussion: The Drum and AdExchanger