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5:50 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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vivendi chief executive Arnaud de Puyfontaine named chairman of UK media buyout firm Gloo  —  Vivendi chief executive to chair media buyout firm Gloo Networks  —  Arnaud de Puyfontaine to take up non-executive role at London-listed technology company immediately
Discussion: Sky News and Reuters
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.
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?
Discussion: Mashable
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.
Discussion: Gizmodo, @flohmann and The Verge
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 …
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 …
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.
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: @petersterne and @beet_tv
 
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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
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
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
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