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8:50 AM ET, December 15, 2015

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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: @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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vivendi chief executive Arnaud de Puyfontaine named chairman of UK media buyout firm Gloo
Discussion: Sky News and Reuters
Robin Shannon / New Orleans CityBusiness:
Dolan Company to be purchased by GateHouse Media
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
Discussion: @jpublik
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
Discussion: Mashable
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Chris Phillips / Pandora Blog:
Pandora launches Thumbprint Radio, a personalized radio station based on your thumb ups
Doug Bolton / The Independent:
Julian Assange could face questions over rape claims after legal agreement made
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Cory Haik, executive director of emerging news products at the Washington Post, joins Mic as chief strategy officer
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kate Kelly / New York Times:
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after a 404 Media probe found the apps advertised being able to create nonconsensual nude images

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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