Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:15 PM ET, December 3, 2015

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Facebook Partners With 50 Publishers To Launch Instant Articles In Asia  —  Facebook is bringing its Instant Article media format to Asia after more than twenty media from eleven countries in the region — including China, India and Indonesia — went live on the platform.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: YouTube seeks streaming rights for TV shows and movies to support its new subscription service Red  —  YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies  —  Efforts come as YouTube looks to bolster $9.99-a-month subscription service called Red  —  YouTube is seeking streaming rights …
The Authors Guild:
Authors Guild, American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, and others file amicus brief asking Supreme Court to overturn Apple ebook price fixing decision  —  Authors Guild Files Brief Affirming Benefits of Competitive E-book Economy  —  The Authors Guild, the nation's largest …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: potential bidders for a Yahoo sale include Verizon, IAC/InterActive, with News Corp and Time Inc. likely interested in pieces of Yahoo  —  Bidders Emerge for Yahoo's Internet Business  —  Potential buyers range from media and telecom giants to private-equity firms
BBC:
India's The Hindu newspaper not printed Wednesday for the first time since 1878 due to heavy floods in Chennai, making the press inaccessible to workers  —  Chennai floods: The Hindu not published for first time since 1878  —  One of India's oldest newspapers has not been printed …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Engadget Unveils Redesign Focused on Technology's Effect on Society  —  AOL-owned gadget site broadens editorial mission to boost audience  —  Veteran tech site Engadget is getting a face-lift and a new outlook on life.  —  The 11-year-old blog is unveiling a significant redesign of its site …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Shareholder who controls about 10% of Viacom asks CEO Philippe Dauman for more disclosure about Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone's health and competency  —  Mario Gabelli Wants More Disclosures on Sumner Redstone's Health  —  Billionaire money manager's Gamco Investors owns about 10% of Viacom voting shares
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The San Francisco Chronicle, once imperiled, is profitable — and growing its digital business … When newspapers took a nosedive in the late 2000s, it appeared as if the San Francisco Chronicle might be one of the industry's biggest casualties.  The paper reportedly was bleeding …
Stan Schroeder / Mashable:
Snapchat positions itself as breaking news platform with San Bernardino coverage  —  Snapchat is not typically a place you'd go to for information about a breaking news story.  But the messaging app ran a story on the San Bernardino mass shooting Wednesday, providing its 100+ million users …
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Vimeo to roll out 4K video streaming on its website as well as Android, iOS, Amazon TV, and Roku apps  —  Vimeo announces 4K video streaming for all  —  Over the next several weeks, Vimeo will roll out 4K video streaming to all users.  —  The update will apply to Vimeo's website …
Discussion: TechSpot, Variety, The Next Web and Mashable
Wall Street Journal:
Advertising holding company Publicis Groupe overhauls company structure and top management  —  Publicis Groupe Shuffles Management  —  Advertising holding company looks to coordinate its myriad agencies and rejuvenate business  —  PARIS— Publicis Groupe SA is overhauling its structure …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 12:15 PM ET, December 3, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Alan Yentob steps down from BBC senior management role as creative director over Kids Company charity scandal
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Judge details why Cox not entitled to DMCA safe harbor protection in BMG copyright case, says it failed to terminate accounts of subscribers accused of piracy
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros. and Turner invest $15.8M in LeBron James' platform-agnostic content network for athletes, Uninterrupted
George Stahl / Wall Street Journal:
Disney Dividend to Increase 19% in 2015
 Earlier Picks: 
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Q&A with new Tidal CEO, former SoundCloud exec Jeff Toig, the startup's third CEO in under a year
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Washington Post says reporter Jason Rezaian is in immediate danger with failing health as he approaches 500 days in Iranian captivity
FBI:
FBI launches eFOIA system, putting individual FOIA requests and results online for the first time, but limits requests to one per day
 

 
From Techmeme:

Artificial Intelligence Index:
Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more

Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Adobe says it is in the early stages of developing a way to let Premiere Pro users tap AI models from OpenAI, Runway, and Pika Labs to generate video

Jennifer A. Kingson / Axios:
Meta plans to launch a new education product for Quest that will let teachers access education apps for students ages 13+ and manage multiple headsets at once
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page