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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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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.
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Variety, @tomkludt, Bloomberg Business, The Wrap, Washington Post, New York Daily News, Radio Ink Magazine, The Daily Beast, Benzinga and CNNMoney
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, Poynter, @greatfirechina, Al Jazeera English, JOURNALISM NEWS, Associated Press, Newsweek and New York Times
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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BGR, @srikardr, @griffin, Silicon Republic, Gizmodo and Consumerist
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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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 …
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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Mashable, New York Times, @thomasfullernyt, Guardian and Reuters
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
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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NetNewsCheck Latest, Washington Post and @abeaujon
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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Press Gazette, Guardian, Reuters, Leader Standard and UBM
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
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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