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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff Launch Twitter Campaign Urging New Owner To Come Forward — Jeb Bush joked that Donald Trump was the paper's mystery buyer. — Employees at Nevada's largest media outlet launched a coordinated Twitter campaign on Monday because their paper's new financial backers are still a mystery.
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Gaby Dunn / Fusion:
Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame — It was all so painfully awkward. That night, Brittany Ashley, a lesbian stoner in red lipstick, was at Eveleigh, a popular farm-to-table spot in West Hollywood. The restaurant was hosting Buzzfeed's Golden Globes party.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Cory Haik, executive director of emerging news products at the Washington Post, joins Mic as chief strategy officer — Mic Gets a Washington Post Executive to Help It Grow, and Grow Up — Mic is one of several fast-growing Web publishers with big, millennial-focused ambitions.
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Guardian, Poynter, @lpolgreen, @karaswisher, @elanazak, @jeffjarvis, @caltchek, @joelcifer, @slade, @jayrosen_nyu, @journerdism and FishbowlNY
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Washington Post builds a free 8-bit-style mobile game, Floppy Candidate, with trivia questions and links to stories about the 2016 election — The Washington Post recreates the mobile game sensation Flappy Bird for the 2016 campaign season — Where do you get your news? How do you get your news?
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix re-encoding its entire catalog to improve quality, save users up to 20% of data — Inside Netflix's Plan to Boost Streaming Quality and Unclog the Internet (Exclusive) — The company is on a quest to re-encode its entire catalog — Over the past few months …
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Consumerist, Gizmodo and @griffin
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
RIAA wins default judgment and $17M+ in fines against unidentified Grooveshark clone; judge tells CloudFlare to disconnect any new clones if notified by labels — RIAA Defeats Grooveshark “Clone” in Court, Wins $17 Million — Last May, Grooveshark shut down after settling with the RIAA.
Aaron Sharockman / PolitiFact:
PolitiFact partnering with NBC News for 2016 election — PolitiFact and NBC News are partnering to fact-check the 2016 election. — Beginning today, PolitiFact will fact-check statements made on Meet the Press and rate them on PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter.
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
MGM Names Mark Burnett President of Television and Digital Group — The ‘Bible’ producer signed a five-year contract to head the TV and digital group. — MGM is buying the portion of United Artists Media Group held by Hearst, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, while making Burnett president …
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Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
Washington Post widens online lead over New York Times in November — The Washington Post widened its lead over The New York Times in November, raking in 71.6 million U.S. visitors compared to the Times' 68.8 million according to comScore data. — Last month, the Washington Post narrowly edged the Times …
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Washington Post and @abeaujon
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK's five-year probe of journalists resulted in 67 arrests, 9 phone-hacking convictions, 2 convictions for paying for stories — The 67 UK journalists arrested and/or charged in the course of their jobs since 2011 — Dominic Ponsford's blog - — Since the launch of Operation Weeting five years ago …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Roy Sekoff, Huffington Post's founding editor and co-creator of HuffPost Live, is leaving — Roy Sekoff to leave Huffington Post — The Huffington Post's founding editor, Roy Sekoff, is leaving the organization, president Arianna Huffington announced in an email to staff on Monday night.
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@beet_tv and @petersterne
Keith Laing / The Hill:
FAA approves CNN for day-time drone use at altitudes less than 400 feet, slower than 100 mph — Feds approve CNN for drone flights — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved an application from CNN to fly drones. — The agency issued the approval for CNN to use drones …
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