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David Barboza / New York Times:
Alibaba Buying South China Morning Post, Aiming to Influence Media — The Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant, is making an ambitious play to reshape media coverage of its home country, taking aim at what company executives call the “negative” portrayal of China in the Western media.
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Chow Chung-yan / South China Morning Post:
Q&A with South China Morning Post executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai on sale to Alibaba, objective coverage, and plans to remove the paper's paywall — Alibaba buys the South China Morning Post: Full Q&A with executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai — Main menu
Howard Stutz / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Review-Journal sold to News + Media Capital Group — For the second time this year, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its sister publications in Nevada are under new owners. — The publications were acquired by News + Media Capital, LLC, which is backed by an …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Trade group finds that 33% of American consumers are very or somewhat likely to try adblockers in the next three months — More Americans are going to start using adblockers in next 3 months, trade group warns — The number of Americans using adblockers will grow over the next three months …
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Sayan Chakraborty / LiveMint:
Indian e-commerce site Flipkart stops selling e-books as of December 11, will transition users to Rakuten Kobo — Flipkart stops selling e-books — Flipkart Ltd will stop selling electronic books from Friday, three years after the online retailer started selling the product, acknowledging that Indians are yet to warm up to them.
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
In a first, Kickstarter hires a tech reporter, Mark Harris, to investigate and document drone startup Zano, which collapsed after raising $3.4M — Kickstarter hires reporter to probe startup that collapsed after raising $3.4M — Crowdfunding firm: We are entitled to further info from Torquing Group.
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Financial Times:
Sources: Atlantic Media in talks to sell its business news site Quartz — Atlantic Media in talks to sell Quartz — Atlantic Media has held talks with a number of potential buyers interested in digital media about a sale of or potential investment in Quartz, the publishing group's business news site …
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Politico, International Business Times, Co.Design, @nixxin, @om, @neilcybart, CNNMoney, @tcarmody, @mattzeitlin, @thestalwart, @mattgarrahan and @stevekopack
James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly:
Netflix beats HBO in Golden Globe nominations for the first time with nine to HBO's eight; Amazon gets five, Hulu, one, and big four networks, nine total — NETFLIX TOPS HBO FOR FIRST TIME AS STREAMING DISRUPTS GOLDEN GLOBES — Netflix, Amazon and Hulu surge in Globes noms — It's not TV, it's Netflix.
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Knight Foundation:
News startup Billy Penn to create mobile journalism guide with $106,000 from Knight Foundation — Mobile-first Philadelphia site hopes to help journalists and newsrooms excel across platforms — Billy Penn, a mobile-first news site based in Philadelphia, will create an interactive …
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Nieman Lab, Poynter and @knightfdn
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Mozilla's newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking — One of the world's most popular Web browser developers wants to help you block the Web. Or the parts of it, anyway, that slow down your Internet, spy on your online activities and generally make Web-surfing a tedious experience.
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VentureBeat, Forbes, Neowin, @b_fung, @jason_kint, The Mozilla Blog, Ubergizmo, Tech2, Yibada, Mobile Computing Today, The Indian Express and The Next Web
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Only three of YouTube's top 10 videos of 2015 were made by ordinary YouTubers — The year has changed, and the exact videos have changed, but one aspect of YouTube's annual top-10 remains pretty predictable: The real powerhouses on the site that claims to have democratized Internet video …
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SFist and The Huffington Post
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Digital President of Tribune Denise Warren outlines plans to adopt a metered paywall, overhaul the CMS, centralize back-office functions, and put mobile first — How New York Times vet Denise Warren is trying to modernize Tribune Publishing — Few media companies could be in more dire need of a turnaround than Tribune Publishing.
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@charliemagne and @lmoses
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
The Exodus Continues: Yahoo Loses Ad Product Chief Prashant Fuloria — Another major Yahoo exec is departing — SVP of advertising products Prashant Fuloria is exiting his job for parts unknown, according to an internal memo. — Fuloria confirmed in an email to me that he was leaving …
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@robleathern, @ryanlawler, @delrey, @ryanlawler, @karaswisher and @cnbcnow
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK's Crown Prosecution Service won't bring charges against Mirror journalists or News UK due to insufficient evidence — No further action on UK media phone hacking, chief prosecutor says — Crown Prosecution Service says insufficient evidence to bring charges against News UK or former Mirror journalists
Hadas Gold / Politico:
NBC, MSNBC name Robert Costa political analyst — The Washington Post's Robert Costa has been named a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, host Chuck Todd announced on Thursday. — Costa, who's seen his star rise dramatically in the past two years, is exclusive to the network …
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Poynter, @nbcnewspr and @jayrosen_nyu
Dana Rubinstein / Politico:
Port Authority approves incentives for 2 World Trade Center to spur leases from 21st Century Fox and News Corp — Port OKs subsidy for Murdoch, but less than planned — Two companies effectively controlled by Rupert Murdoch will get millions of dollars in state and Port Authority subsidies …
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Time Inc. Partners With Hulu, Yahoo and Zealot Networks for Video Distribution — Time Inc. is continuing its video push, adding Hulu, Yahoo and Zealot Networks to join its video distribution network. Original video from Time Inc.'s portfolio of brands will thus be distributed across the trio of networks, the company said Thursday.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Yahoo releases Video Guide, an app that offers universal search across 30+ streaming services, for iOS and Android — Yahoo Releases Video Discovery App for iOS and Android — Yahoo want to make it easier for you to find the shows you want to watch online: The company released a new app called …
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Yahoo, Tech Times, The Verge, Android Police, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
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