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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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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
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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Mashable
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Cision nears deal to acquire PR Newswire: sources — Cision, a provider of public relations software, is close to an agreement to acquire press release distributor PR Newswire Association LLC from British communications and events company UBM Plc, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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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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@markstencel, @deggans, @jayrosen_nyu, Poynter, USA Today and New York Times
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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Variety, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times and Deadline
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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@jpublik
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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