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5:25 PM ET, December 11, 2015

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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 Alibaba executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai South China Morning Post 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
Bloomberg Business:
Appeals court judge allows FanDuel, DraftKings to continue to operate in New York state while waiting on another ruling  —  Daily Fantasy Sites Back in Business in N.Y. After Appeal  —  DraftKings and FanDuel can continue doing business in New York for now, after an appeals court halted …
CNN:
Chinese Internet czar Lu Wei says no plans to stop blocking foreign websites, defends censorship calling it regulation  —  Bad luck Zuck: China says no plans to stop blocking foreign web sites  —  Beijing (CNN)Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been courting China assiduously …
Mike Dang / The Billfold:
The Awl Network's personal finance site, The Billfold, moves to Medium platform, keeps its domain name  —  Some News: The Billfold Is Partnering With Medium  —  Earlier this fall, Medium announced that it was partnering with several different publications, including The Awl Network.
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Ofcom research: global TV revenues hit £244bn in 2014, up 5% year over year, with UK viewers generating an average of £216 each, behind US and Germany  —  Global TV revenues hit £244bn last year  —  Subscriptions and advertising driving global growth …
Discussion: The Drum
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Study finds 81% of UK adults used online services to watch TV or films during September and October, ahead of Europe, Japan, Australia, and US
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Cost of Met's journalism investigations rises £4m in seven months to more than £40m  —  The Metropolitan Police has now spent more than £40m on investigations into journalism, figures obtained by Press Gazette show.  —  The cost of Operation Weeting into phone-hacking …
Discussion: Guardian
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK's Crown Prosecution Service won't bring charges against Mirror journalists or News UK due to insufficient evidence
David Lieberman / Deadline:
Dish Network's Charlie Ergen Hands Day To Day Oversight To Erik Carlson  —  The decision is part of Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen's sweeping change in the top ranks that the company says is designed to “align its business to more fully respond to the dynamic pay-TV environment” and become a player in wireless communications.
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 …
Politico:
Labor dispute at New Hampshire TV station WMUR pushes it out of sponsorship of December 19 Democratic debate  —  WMUR booted from next Democratic debate  —  New Hampshire's most influential television station is being pushed out of next week's Democratic debate.  —  The reason?
Kari Wethington / The E.W. Scripps Company:
NC's Capitol Broadcasting signs with E.W. Scripps' over-the-top service, Newsy, to publish daily news videos  —  Capitol Broadcasting signs with Newsy for millennial-focused video news offering  —  CINCINNATI - Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc., has entered into an agreement …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
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 …
Discussion: SFist and Fortune
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Freedom of Press launches fundraiser to help journalists in police brutality investigations  —  Fundraiser for Heroic Chicago Independent Journalists and Future Police Brutality Investigations  —  A major scandal is currently engulfing the Chicago Police Department and the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel.
 
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Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
Hezbollah TV vows to air after satellite transmission stops
Discussion: almanar.com.lb, presstv.ir and Reuters
James Rainey / Variety:
Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks To Reboot with $200 Million From Participant and Universal Deal
Discussion: CNBC
Agence France-Presse:
Turkey fines Twitter $$50,700 for allowing the publication of pro-terror content
Discussion: The Hill and Trend.Az
Sayan Chakraborty / LiveMint:
Indian e-commerce site Flipkart stops selling e-books as of December 11, will transition users to Rakuten Kobo
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
The Exodus Continues: Yahoo Loses Ad Product Chief Prashant Fuloria
Hadas Gold / Politico:
NBC, MSNBC name Robert Costa political analyst
Discussion: Poynter and @nbcnewspr
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Time Inc. Partners With Hulu, Yahoo and Zealot Networks for Video Distribution
Discussion: Media Wire Daily and Variety
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
Simon Canning / mUmBRELLA:
Australia's ad and communications firm STW halts stock trading as merger with WPP looms
 

 
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Decrypt:
Eighteen GOP state AGs sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Gary Gensler, alleging crypto regulatory overreach without Congressional authorization

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
 
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