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11:45 AM ET, December 16, 2015

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Atavist cuts half its staff and searches for a sustainable path as funding dries up  —  The past couple of years have not been kind to publishing-related startups.  Byliner publicly fell apart before being acquired.  Social reading platform Readmill was acquired by Dropbox and shut down.
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 …
Husain Sumra / MacRumors:
Rdio to Officially Shut Down on December 22, Will Allow Users to Download Collection Archive  —  Last month Pandora announced that it acquired “key assets” and employees from Rdio for $75 million.  Tonight, Rdio began emailing its users to let them know that it would officially shut down on December 22, 2015 at 5 p.m. PST.
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 …
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.
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 …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Part two of the Leveson Inquiry has been ‘quietly shelved’ by Government  —  The conclusion of Operation Weeting (announced on Friday) left the way open for part two of the Leveson Inquiry to finally commence.  —  But The Times and Mail report government sources saying that it has been quietly shelved.
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.
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: Prolific North and Press Gazette
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Play Books adds a nighttime reading mode that's easier on your eyes  —  Google is following Amazon's lead with a new mode for its ebooks app that makes reading at night more pleasant and comfortable for your eyes.  Similar to the updated Kindle tablet software we saw last week …
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
 
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