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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?
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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.
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
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 …
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