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12:25 PM ET, December 4, 2015

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New York Times:
Reporters and editors discuss their strategies for covering mass shootings amid familiar storylines  —  The News Media's Grim Playbook on Mass Shootings  —  On Wednesday at 2:28 p.m., the CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin was in a split-screen conversation with a network legal correspondent …
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable:
Snapchat positions itself as breaking news platform with San Bernardino coverage
Damaris Colhoun / Columbia Journalism Review:
Social media censorship in Bangladesh hints at long-term problems for publishers  —  Two weeks have passed since the government in Bangladesh blocked access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, and other social media sites.  In Dhaka, some people have crowded into hotel lobbies to access private networks …
Pew Research Center:
Washington Press Corps now has more reporters from digital and specialized outlets and fewer from local, daily newspapers  —  Today's Washington Press Corps More Digital, Specialized  —  D.C.-based newspaper staff focus on Congress, but wire services account for most of what readers see
Eric Barnett / The Official Twitch Blog:
Twitch app now available for Android TV, offers viewing of live and recorded video, ability to follow channels and games  —  Couch Potatoes Rejoice!  Twitch Comes To Android TV.  —  Android fans get ready, we've got something awesome coming your way.  Starting today, you'll be able …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook expanding Live Video to all users starting with small selection of US iOS users  —  Facebook begins testing live video streaming for all users  —  Four months after introducing live video streaming for celebrities and other high-profile users, Facebook is now rolling the feature out to everyone inside its flagship app.
Reuters:
Thai printer refuses to print International New York Times story for the second time this week  —  New York Times censored again as Thailand marks birthday of fragile king  —  Thailand's edition of the International New York Times appeared on Friday with a blank space instead of a story …
Associated Press:
China issues rules banning dishonesty in science publishing  —  BEIJING (AP) — After a series of scandals, Chinese regulators overseeing the field of academic publishing for scientific articles have issued rules explicitly banning dishonest practices.  —  The directive, dated Nov. 23 …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Rdio to lay off 123 by December 31, over 50% of its employees, following Pandora acquisition; Pandora says it has given job offers to around 100 Rdio employees  —  Rdio is laying off more than half of its employees following Pandora acquisition  —  Online radio company Pandora's $75 million acquisition …
Discussion: Engadget and Forbes
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Washington Post editor Marty Baron on the inundation of metrics, what it means by “new publication of record”, and investigative reporting  —  Newsonomics: Marty Baron shines a new Spotlight on journalism  —  Is Marty Baron Oscar-worthy?
Discussion: @jpmarthoz, Digiday and Politico
James Crabtree / Financial Times:
India's rules limiting cross-media ownership prevent foreign diversified media firms from making more broadcast investments  —  Foreign media groups stymied by Indian regulations  —  Attempts by Rupert Murdoch's Star India and other global media groups to capitalise on recent moves opening …
Garett Sloane / Digiday:
Survey: 31% of top media buyers plan Snapchat Super Bowl campaigns for 6% of average budget  —  Get ready to see Snapchat in Super Bowl campaigns  —  This week, media planners, top agencies and brands were asked how they would spread their spending on campaigns around the Super Bowl.
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 …
 
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What publishers around the world learned by sharing their climate change coverage with each other
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Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest

Counterpoint Research:
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