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Hollywood Reporter:
Howard Stern signs 5 year deal with Sirius XM, will continue radio show, expand into video — Stern will stay on the air through 2020, the partners will move into video programming, and Sirius will have access to the host's audio and video library for 12 years.
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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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, NetNewsCheck Latest, @abeaujon, Poynter and Re/code
Elana Beiser / Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ survey finds 199 journalists imprisoned worldwide in 2015; top three countries imprisoning journalists are China with 49, Egypt with 23, and Iran with 19 — China, Egypt imprison record numbers of journalists — Egypt is second only to China as the world's worst jailer of journalists in 2015.
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Guardian, FishbowlNY, @joelcpj, @mlcalderone, Al Jazeera English, @greatfirechina, Poynter, JOURNALISM NEWS, Newsweek and New York Times
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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Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY, @beet_tv and @petersterne
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
George Ergatoudis, head of music at BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, joins Spotify UK as head of content programming — Spotify Poaches BBC Radio Exec In Push For Localised, Curated And Undiscovered Content — Video may have killed the radio star, but streaming services are bringing it back to life.
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bbc.co.uk and Business Insider
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Thai factory worker faces 37 years in jail on sedition charges for social media posts insulting king and disparaging king's dog — Thai Man May Go to Prison for Insulting King's Dog — BANGKOK — Thailand's strict laws making it a crime to insult the monarchy entered new territory on Monday …
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Ars Technica UK, @williamsjon, Guardian, Mashable, New York Times, @thomasfullernyt and Reuters
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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Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Twitter Moments launches in UK, launch partners include VICE and BuzzFeed UK — Twitter Moments launches in the UK — Twitter has launched its Moments feature in the UK today, allowing selected members of the British media and the social network's staff to collate tweets that encapsulate …
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The Twitter Blog and TechCrunch
Rory Gallivan / Wall Street Journal:
UBM to Sell PR Newswire to Cision for $841 Million — Significant step in diversified media company's move to focus on events — LONDON— UBM PLC Tuesday announced the sale of its news release business PR Newswire to global media intelligence group Cision for $841 million …
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Reuters, Guardian, Press Gazette, Leader Standard and UBM
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vice Europe to double revenues to £100m as TV strategy pays off — UK operation will deliver first significant profits at approximately £18m as investment in news and driving TV strategy pays off — Vice's European operations will double revenues to £100m this year …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vivendi chief executive Arnaud de Puyfontaine named chairman of UK media buyout firm Gloo — Vivendi chief executive to chair media buyout firm Gloo Networks — Arnaud de Puyfontaine to take up non-executive role at London-listed technology company immediately