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7:55 PM ET, December 13, 2015

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Las Vegas Review-Journal removed questions about the newspaper's new mystery owner after article on the sale was published  —  Las Vegas Review-Journal Removed Questions About The Newspaper's New Mystery Owner In Article On Sale  —  No one knows who owns Nevada's largest media outlet.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour Live video, debuting on December 20, will be exclusive to Apple Music; Apple gets rights to Swift's name for store promotions  —  Apple Gets a Giant Taylor Swift Concert Exclusive (Because It Paid Taylor Swift)  —  Remember when Taylor Swift and Apple didn't get along …
Angie Drobnic Holan / New York Times:
Fact-checking is making gains among audience and media, despite truthiness from partisans on the left and right  —  All Politicians Lie.  Some Lie More Than Others.  —  Washington — I'm a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Profile of Mickey Kaus, a godfather of Democratic political blogging, who left the mainstream, now mostly tweets from home, and leans toward Trump  —  What The Hell Happened To Mickey Kaus?  —  How a godfather of Democratic political blogging became obsessed with immigration — and came around to Donald Trump.
Hurriyet Daily News:
Turkish opposition leader meets with Cumhuriyet newspaper's imprisoned journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, calls for release of all 32 journalists in jail  —  32 jailed journalists must be freed: CHP head  —  Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Klçdarolu …
Samia Errazzouki / Associated Press:
Online journalism in Morocco struggles as monarchy and government counter with websites and efforts to silence critics  —  Moroccan government and critics vie for online audiences  —  7 photos  —  CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — The newest entrant to Morocco's media scene has already reported …
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Censor or die: The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels  —  CONTROLLING THE STORY: This is the fifth installment in an ongoing series examining the human cost of reporting the news around the world.  —  REYNOSA, Mexico — As deadline descended on El Mañana's newsroom …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
The Tab, a hyperlocal news site written by unpaid student journalists, raises $3M from Balderton Capital to fund its expansion in the US  —  The Tab Raises $3M For Its Hyperlocal News Site Written By Unpaid Student Journalists  —  The online disruption of journalism continues apace.
Joseph Cox / Wired:
News outlets like The Daily Mail, DrudgeReport, and Forbes have been recently hit with malvertising, malicious ads meant to hack readers' computers  —  Hacker Lexicon: Malvertising, the Hack That Infects Computers Without a Click  —  Malvertising is when hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website …
Discussion: @whatthebit
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Skift gets 30 percent of its revenue from branded content  —  Media companies eyeing new revenue streams have embraced branded content as the area most ripe for growth.  It's the same story on the business-to-business side, where many publishers hope to make big bucks helping B2B brands tell their stories.
Discussion: @digiday, Thanks:@steverubel
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Profile of Ian Hislop, who has edited Britain's Private Eye, a satirical and investigative magazine for nearly 30 years  —  An Enduring and Erudite Court Jester in Britain  —  LONDON — Ian Hislop looks mild and soft, rather like a pudding, with a nascent double-chin and not much hair.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
ISIS uses LinkedIn's slideshow platform to publish its propaganda magazine Dabiq  —  Why Do People Keep Uploading This ISIS Magazine?  —  LinkedIn's slideshow platform has become the unlikely host for ISIS's propaganda publication.  —  The Islamic State would like to add you to its professional network on LinkedIn.
 
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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Advance online ticket sales give theaters data about viewing habits, audiences, and more while helping promote upcoming releases
Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:
A look at business models for two local news weekly outlets: the Hendersonville Lightning and Straus News in New York City
Discussion: @forbes and FishbowlNY
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
USC Annenberg School class teaches students how to produce stories for social media and emerging platforms like VR
The Hamilton Spectator:
Independent TV station CHCH in Hamilton, Ontario, reduces local programming hours, cuts 129 full-time staffers as parent firm files bankruptcy
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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
John Wihbey / Nieman Lab:
10 of the most interesting academic studies about social and digital media published in 2015
Mike Dang / The Billfold:
The Awl Network's personal finance site, The Billfold, moves to Medium platform, keeps its domain name
Discussion: Digiday and Wall Street Journal
 

 
From Techmeme:

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

James Hunt / The Block:
Bitcoin's fourth halving is now complete, lowering miners' block subsidy rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC; the third halving was on May 2020

 
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