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12:45 PM ET, December 14, 2015

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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Skift Brings on Magazine Veteran Carolyn Kremins as President  —  Digital Media Site Focused on Travel Hires Former Conde Nast Exec  —  Understand the State of Influencer Marketing  —  Skift, which markets itself as “the largest industry intelligence and marketing platform in travel,” …
Bloomberg Business:
Alibaba to Buy South China Morning Post for $266 Million  —  Founder Jack Ma to follow Bezos in buying storied masthead  —  Alibaba pledges to ensure editorial freedom, scrap pay wall  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the e-commerce giant headed by billionaire Jack Ma …
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Chialun Huang / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA:
How The Economist, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Financial Times have fared in delivering news in China
Discussion: @raju
Doug Bolton / The Independent:
Julian Assange could face questions over rape claims after legal agreement made  —  The governments of Sweden and Ecuador have reached an agreement that paves the way for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, currently living in the
Chris Phillips / Pandora Blog:
Pandora launches Thumbprint Radio, a personalized radio station based on your thumb ups  —  Thumbprint Radio: A Uniquely Personal Station Inspired By All of Your Thumbs Up  —  Today we launched Thumbprint Radio - a hyper-personalized station for each listener.
Angie Drobnic Holan / New York Times:
With the 2016 election campaign ongoing, audiences are increasingly demanding fact-checking be integrated into political news stories  —  All Politicians Lie.  Some Lie More Than Others.  —  Washington — I'm a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties.
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 …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
A ruling on copyright royalties this week, deciding the amount companies like Pandora should pay record labels, could hurt the company's revenues  —  For Pandora, Ruling on Webcasting Royalty Rates Is Crucial  —  Since it began 10 years ago, Pandora Media has become one of the most popular …
Discussion: TechCrunch and @jeffjohnroberts
Will Van Wazer / Washington Post:
Inside the move to HTTPS at The Washington Post: 10 months of work and hurdles in infrastructure, advertising, and the newsroom  —  Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS  —  In June of this year, the Post announced that we were switching our site to be HTTPS by default, starting with the homepage …
The Daily Beast:
How Egyptian activists are using Twitter to try to locate missing friends and relatives  —  Egypt's Second Twitter Revolution  —  In 2011, Egyptian activists used social media to help overthrow a government.  Now they use Twitter to find out what the new dictator has done with their missing friends.
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Police Scotland reveals 12 RIPA applications to find journalists' sources  —  Police Scotland has become the first UK force to release details of how many times it accessed phone records to find journalistic sources.  —  The force used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act …
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.
 
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Upworthy's push into original video has produced 40 videos with 3.44M views on average
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Jon Mitchell / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party are increasingly curbing press freedom in Japan, particularly coverage critical of the government
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
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Censor or die: The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels
Discussion: Guardian and @barrydstocker
Samia Errazzouki / Associated Press:
Online journalism in Morocco struggles as monarchy and government counter with websites and efforts to silence critics
 

 
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Michael Kan / PCMag:
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers

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Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Chairman Gary Gensler, over its crackdown on the crypto industry

Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure
 
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