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9:45 AM 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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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  —  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
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Agence France-Presse:
Turkey fines Twitter $$50,700 for allowing the publication of pro-terror content  —  Turkey fines Twitter over ‘pro-terror’ content  —  AFP/AFP/File - Turkey's Information and Communication Technologies Authority fined Twitter 150,000 lira ($50,700) for failing to withdraw content …
Discussion: Reuters and Al Bawaba
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.
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Anushka Asthana and Heather Stewart to share role of Guardian political editor  —  Sky News politics correspondent and Observer economics editor will replace Patrick Wintour, who is to become diplomatic editor, early next year  —  Sky News senior political correspondent Anushka Asthana …
Discussion: Press Gazette and Guardian
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
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 …
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.
Discussion: @charliemagne and @lmoses
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 …
Discussion: Poynter, @nbcnewspr and @jayrosen_nyu
Simon Canning / mUmBRELLA:
Australia's ad and communications firm STW halts stock trading as merger with WPP looms  —  STW Communications enters trading halt with WPP poised to finally complete takeover  —  WPP could take control of Australia's largest listed advertising and communications company, STW Group, as early as next week, Mumbrella understands.
 
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Three journalists with Turkish daily paper BirGün get suspended sentences on charges of insulting President Erdogan
Paul Chiasson / Toronto Star:
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi on hunger strike after prison transfer
Discussion: Globe and Mail, CBC News and Facebook
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Leonid Sviridov, a Russian journalist for RIA Novosti, says he will leave Poland following spy accusations and being stripped of accreditation
Discussion: TASS
Ariel / appFigures:
One month in, Apple TV App Store has 2,624 apps; largest category is games with 1,002 apps
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
ESPN and College Football Playoff Agree Not to Air Daily Fantasy Ads
Discussion: ESPN and @rollystandish
Facebook:
Facebook's most talked-about global topics in 2015 include US Presidential Election, Paris attacks, refugee crisis, Nepal earthquake, Greek debt crisis
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Online discourse turns ugly as extreme reactions on social media become part of news stories, fueling infinite loops of media coverage
Amanda Connolly / The Next Web:
Flipboard now allows sharing through Facebook Messenger
David Fellerath / Indy Week:
NC Newsroom Cooperative launches in Raleigh in the spring to foster journalism innovation, with early help from Research Triangle Foundation
Discussion: Nieman Lab and @susking
 

 
From Techmeme:

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions

 
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