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6:10 AM ET, December 10, 2015

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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook changes advertising policies for Instant Articles to let publishers include more ads in each article, and sell Facebook-only campaigns to marketers  —  Facebook Bends to Publishers, Tweaks Instant Articles Advertising  —  Publishers said restrictions made it too hard for them to generate revenue
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Max Mason / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook and Fairfax Media team up on Instant Articles  —  Facebook is partnering with Fairfax Media as the social media giant continues the global rollout of Instant Articles.  —  The service hosts news articles on Facebook's News Feed so readers don't have to click through to another website.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Dutch pay-per-article startup Blendle plans beta launch in US in early 2016, will announce publishers later, will hire editor in chief and journalist curators  —  Blendle, the Dutch ‘iTunes for news,’ will launch in the U.S. early next year  —  Blendle, a Dutch “digital newsstand” …
Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
ISIS creates propaganda app with news reader functions to spread its message  —  Welcome to the Future of War: ISIS Has a Smartphone App  —  In YouTube videos depicting its rule, in Twitter messages spreading its ideology, and in chat rooms winning new recruits, the Islamic State …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Profile of Martha Nelson, chief of Yahoo media and ex-Time Inc. editor in chief, who faces challenges as Yahoo plans to spin off core assets  —  As Yahoo roils, Martha Nelson stays focused on media  —  When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer hired former Time Inc. bigwig Martha Nelson over the summer …
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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo scraps Alibaba spinoff plan, will spin off core assets including stake in Yahoo Japan; Max Levchin resigns from board
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Negotiations between Apple and TV programmers stalled over Apple TV because of disagreements on the mix of channels to be included in bundles  —  Why Apple Walked Away From TV (For Now)  —  Yes, Apple has walked away from the negotiating table with the TV guys, which means you won't be getting …
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Bloomberg Business:
CBS CEO Les Moonves says Apple puts live TV plans on hold; source says media firms want more money for their programming
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
YouTube's new Trending tab shows you viral videos “as they take off”, on iOS, Android, and desktop  —  YouTube's new trending tab shows you viral videos ‘as they take off’  —  YouTube has long showcased popular videos on its homepage.  Now, the company's algorithm …
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Airbnb in talks with Hearst to launch new travel magazine, after its quarterly magazine Pineapple, launched in November 2014, ended after one issue  —  Here's What Happened to Pineapple, Airbnb's One-Off Print Magazine  —  Home-rental company is now in talks with Hearst for a joint venture
Discussion: WWD and Fast Company
Richard Gingras / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project:
Google to start sending search traffic to AMP pages as early as February 2016, announces new partners including LINE, Viber, and Tango  —  Continued Momentum For The AMP Project  —  The AMP effort is building both momentum and speed.  There has been significant progress not only since …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
One month after the Wall Street Journal's launch of its WSJ City app in London, Editor Phillipa Leighton-Jones talks about lessons learned  —  ‘A delicate balancing act’: The WSJ City approach to mobile news  —  WSJ City launched at the beginning of November as a “whole new concept” …
Mike McPhate / New York Times:
GunTV, a shopping network for firearms, to launch in January on cable and satellite  —  Selling Guns on a 24-Hour TV Network  —  Two television entrepreneurs in California think they have just what America needs: a 24-hour shopping channel for guns.  —  Using the tag line “Live Shopping.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
News developers from The New York Times and NPR built Elex, an open-source program that works with AP's new elections API  —  NPR and The New York Times teamed up to make election reporting faster  —  Although its monopoly on election night race calls has weakened in recent years …
CNNMoney:
Washington Post staffers and alumni mark last day in old building before they move three blocks to new offices  —  WashPo legends and a band march out of old headquarters  —  The Washington Post reporters and editors spent their last day in the building they have called home since 1950 with a mix of nostalgia and humor.
Duncan Robinson / Financial Times:
European Commission to examine whether aggregators should have to pay for displaying snippets of news articles  —  Google faces Brussels move on ‘snippet tax’ for news  —  Google faces another regulatory confrontation with Brussels after the European Commission said it will examine whether services …
Discussion: Reuters, Boing Boing and @retiario
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
Europe to create a digital single market in which digital content can be temporarily viewed throughout the EU regardless of European country of purchase
 
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Tow report on podcasts breaks down various business models, provides context through history
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
RIAA and shuttered music streaming site Aurous settle piracy lawsuit for $3M
Discussion: Music Week, Variety and Ars Technica
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Lynda.com launches a Roku channel to bring its lessons to your television
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some media firms are pulling back from syndicating videos with AOL On network, uncertain where their videos appear
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Time Out to cut about 40 staff in UK and US
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Source: OpenAI's share of revenue after the cost of running AI models for paying users has jumped to ~70% in October, up from ~52% at the end of 2024
 
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