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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
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@tomgrundy, @jgriffiths, @jayrosen_nyu, @michaelschuman, @jayrosen_nyu, Asia Times, @janiceleung and @chubailiang
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 …
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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.
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Digiday, @hellothefuture, @choire and @hellothefuture
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 …
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 …
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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
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WorldScreen.com, broadcastnow.co.uk, Digital TV Europe, Prolific North, Broadband TV News, Rapid TV News, Mirror.co.uk, Scotsman, TrustedReviews, BBC, Telecompaper, uSwitch.com Broadband, Guardian, Advanced Television, The Drum, allmediascotland, Ars Technica UK, Telegraph and Ofcom for Consumers
John Wihbey / Nieman Lab:
10 of the most interesting academic studies about social and digital media published in 2015 — Investigating the network: The top 10 articles from the year in digital news and social media research — A nice piece of targeted empirical research with implications for news website UI and UX design …
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@hermida, @rickabbo, @pewresearch, @wihbey and @chanders
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 …
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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
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Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg Business, Daily Mail, Guardian, BBC, Wall Street Journal, UK Blog on The Huffington Post, Telegraph Times, Guardian, http://www.tribuneindia …, GlobalPost, @videocelts, Globe and Mail, news.co.uk, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, South China Morning Post, London Evening Standard, The Independent, The Drum, New York Times, @richstanton, Guardian, Press Gazette, ITV, The Times, @marksweney, @marksweney, RTÉ, @marksweney, Reuters, Independent.ie, Mirror.co.uk, BBC, The Drum, Telegraph, Bloomberg Business, The Independent, International Business Times, Life Style Extra, Variety and Mashable
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?
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TVNewser, TVSpy, Mediaite, Radio & Television …, Talking Points Memo, New York Times and @gdebenedetti
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.
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Multichannel News, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Reuters, bizjournals, Bloomberg Business and The Wrap
Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
As announced in July, National Journal ends print publication after 46 years, will continue as daily newsletter and website — Facts, R.I.P. — The physically and intellectu ally towering Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who held senior positions …
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@taylor_west, @mattvas, @mattizcoop and @nationaljournal
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 …
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Broadcasting & Cable
Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
Hezbollah TV vows to air after satellite transmission stops — 6 photos — BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV station vowed on Thursday to continue broadcasting after it was abruptly dropped by one of the Middle East's main satellite operators. — The move by Saudi Arabia-hosted ArabSat earlier …
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almanar.com.lb, presstv.ir and Reuters
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York:
Daily News finds its voice attacking Trump (and the NRA) — The New York tabloid has been on a roll with its page one headlines, blasting ‘gun nuts,’ NRA chief ‘Jihadi Wayne’ LaPierre—and Donald Trump, shown beheading Lady Liberty — Hell hath no fury like a tabloid on a mission.
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NPR.org, @glenefriedman, Washington Post, Vox, Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo, Thanks:@petergreennews
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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@muckrakery, @muckrakery, @snowden, @johncusack, @freedomofpress, Freedom of the Press … and Robert Feder
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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