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5:50 AM ET, December 7, 2015

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
The New York Times is running an editorial, “The Gun Epidemic”, on its front page Saturday, the first editorial on its front since 1920  —  Gun Debate Yields Page 1 Editorial  —  The New York Times is running an editorial on its front page on Saturday, the first time the paper …
Mehreen Zahra-Malik / Reuters:
Some Pakistani officials hinder Reuters and Washington Post journalists in Punjab from reporting on California shooter Tashfeen Malik  —  Pakistani security seeks to tamp down reporting on California shooter  —  Pakistani security forces appeared to be trying to dampen down reporting …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Refinery29 has 10 staffers producing 14 pieces per day, seven days a week for Snapchat Discover  —  Inside Refinery29's Snapchat Discover Operation  —  Women-focused digital publisher churns out 14 pieces of content, 7 days a week  —  The number “33” is written on a dry erase board.
Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
Losses point to bleak future for companies whose sole business is music streaming  —  Losses point to bleak future for music streaming services  —  Smaller music companies find it hard in face of offerings from big technology groups  —  For record labels, music streaming is big business.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times prioritizes commenters by placing them at the center of its homepage  —  On Thursday night, as part of its ongoing coverage of the shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., The New York Times highlighted reader comments in one of its most prominent digital spaces: The top of its homepage.
Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
Nielsen: time spent on TV keeps falling while number of 18-34-year-olds on smartphones, tablets, and game consoles surges 26% YoY ending in May  —  Nielsen: Smartphones and the Internet are eating our TV time  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The use of Internet-ready devices like smartphones appears …
Discussion: Nielsen
Hadas Gold / Politico:
The Huffington Post's politics vertical had 6.5M unique visitors in October from its Good News section, though many stories weren't directly related to politics  —  HuffPost Politics gets ‘good news’ traffic boost  —  A recent Huffington Post article about a two-legged puppy taking his …
Discussion: @hadas_gold
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Columbia Journalism School dean Steve Coll on balance, disclosure, and ethics when advocacy groups support nonprofit news in wake of Exxon controversy  —  Exxon-Columbia spat highlights emerging gray area in nonprofit journalism  —  A month after a Columbia Journalism School team published …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Profile of Bold, a new right-leaning website aimed at women, millennials, minorities, and the LGBT community  —  A conservative website for LGBT and minorities?  —  When she gazes out at the conservative media landscape, Carrie Sheffield sees an untapped audience.
Discussion: @tomkludt and @antderosa
Shannon Bond / Financial Times:
Podcast network Gimlet Media raises $6M at $30M valuation in round led by Graham Holdings  —  Gimlet fundraising caps podcasting revival  —  Gimlet Media, the US podcast network started by former National Public Radio producer Alex Blumberg, has raised $6m in funding that values the company …
Siobhán O'Grady / Foreign Policy:
A new report by the PEN American Center details the systematic repression of journalists in Myanmar  —  For Journalists in Myanmar, an Atmosphere of Fear and Repression  —  In 2012, when Myanmar, also known as Burma, abolished pre-publication censorship laws that had long forced journalists …
Discussion: PEN American Center
 
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Guardian is focusing on sports through live blogs, soccer coverage including of women's events, social platforms, data, and VR
Chris Crum / WebProNews:
StumbleUpon shuts down its video recommendation service 5by, as it helps build new discovery platform Mix.com
Discussion: The Next Web
James David Dickson / Detroit News:
High school journalist receives $8K FOIA request bill
Discussion: @olivianuzzi
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Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Ethics went out the window when media mobbed the San Bernardino shooters' apartment
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Source: Condé Nast in talks to outsource some tasks to Hearst's shared-services division
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS makes case to FCC that it has a right to block online streams for customers of specific cable providers amid carriage fights
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