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8:50 AM ET, December 16, 2015

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Mark Scott / New York Times:
EU agrees on EU-wide rules to overhaul data privacy laws, adding hefty fines, broadening right to be forgotten; EU countries will have two years to comply  —  Europe Approves Tough New Data Protection Rules  —  European officials approved long-awaited data protection regulations on Tuesday …
Oliver Ellrodt / Reuters:
German justice minister announces deal with Facebook, Twitter, and Google to remove hate speech within 24 hours of it being reported  —  Facebook, Google, Twitter agree to delete hate speech in 24 hours: Germany  —  Germany said on Tuesday that Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed …
Laurie Burkitt / Wall Street Journal:
Disney and Alibaba announce DisneyLife, an OTT service with Disney content for China, $125 for device and one year subscription available from Tmall Dec. 28  —  Alibaba, Disney Strike Deal to Sell Content System in China  —  The companies struck a multiyear licensing deal for the Mickey Mouse-shaped DisneyLife system
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Guardian experiments with live chat on WhatsApp during GOP debate with maximum of 256 users  —  The Guardian is chatting about tonight's GOP debate on WhatsApp  —  For journalists, much of the conversation around the presidential debates occurs on Twitter.
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Daily Mirror looks at launching cheaper tabloid newspaper  —  The publisher of the Daily Mirror is working on plans to launch a cheaper tabloid newspaper, people familiar with the matter said, in the latest attempt to squeeze profits from print media.  —  The new publication would seek …
Discussion: Press Gazette and Prolific North
Brady Dale / The New York Observer:
Wikipedia's AI tool, ORES, generates scores to help identify edits made in good faith or bad  —  Artificial Intelligence Toward a Kinder, Gentler Wikipedia  —  At least for contributors.  ORES wraps artificial intelligence for evaluating simple edits in an API, so other developers can use it to build new quality control tools.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Serial becomes first ever podcast to win a duPont award  —  ‘Serial’ wins duPont award  —  Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism  —  “Serial,” the breakout hit podcast from the producers of “This American Life,” is among the winners of broadcast journalism's highest honor, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New York Times video founder Ann Derry to depart  —  The journalist who created The New York Times' video department 10 years ago is exiting the publication.  —  Ann Derry, who was behind the Times' initial foray into video in 2005, will leave the company at the end of the year.
Discussion: The Nation and Ars Technica UK
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Eyewitness Media Hub study: 52% of journalists exposed to traumatic user-generated content several times a week, 12% daily  —  On ‘the digital frontline’, over half of journalists are exposed to traumatic UGC several times a week  —  A new study from the Eyewitness Media Hub highlights …
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.
R.L. Bynum / Raleigh & Company:
Interview with the publisher of the North State Journal, a statewide newspaper for North Carolina to launch in spring  —  Statewide print newspaper launches next year at time when industry is struggling  —  With newspaper staffs shrinking and the business bleeding red ink amid tough financial times …
Discussion: @rl_bynum and @joeovies
James DeHaven / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Society of Professional Journalists calls on new owners of Las Vegas Review-Journal to reveal their identity  —  Pressure to go public grows for new Review-Journal owners  —  One of the country's largest and oldest journalism organizations has joined a growing chorus of reporters …
 
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Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Twitter Moments launches in UK, launch partners include VICE and BuzzFeed UK
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Howard Stern signs 5 year deal with Sirius XM, will continue radio show, expand into video
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vice Europe to double revenues to £100m as TV strategy pays off
Discussion: The Drum and Advanced Television
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
 

 
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Angela Cullen / Bloomberg:
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France

Aisha Down / The Guardian:
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race

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