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1:05 PM ET, December 15, 2015

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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.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Showtime partners with Bloomberg for weekly documentary series covering the presidential race, will feature Mark Halperin and John Heilemann  —  Showtime Getting In On 2016 ‘Circus’ With Weekly Documentary Series  —  The network will team up with Bloomberg on a series that will air as the campaign unfolds.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Jennifer Wong Named President of Time Inc. Digital  —  Time Inc. has named Jennifer Wong president of Time Inc. Digital, a new role at the publisher.  Wong comes to Time Inc. from PopSugar, where she served as chief business officer.  —  Wong has been with PopSugar since 2011.
Discussion: @raju and Media Wire Daily
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Maker Studios President Ynon Kreiz to Step Down  —  Maker executive Courtney Holt is being upped to executive vice president at the Disney-owned short-form video business.  —  Maker Studios president Ynon Kreiz is moving on from the digital media company nearly two years after he orchestrated its landmark sale to Disney.
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
 
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
George Ergatoudis, head of music at BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, joins Spotify UK as head of content programming
Discussion: bbc.co.uk and Business Insider
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vice Europe to double revenues to £100m as TV strategy pays off
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
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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
Gaby Dunn / Fusion:
Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame