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11:35 AM ET, December 27, 2015

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Journalist who resigned from The Bristol Press over Adelson subterfuge receives first $5,000 I.F. Stone Award, named after an investigative journalist  —  Reporter Who Resigned Over Adelson Subterfuge Gets $5,000 Award  —  A Connecticut journalist who resigned last week in protest …
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Steve Collins / Facebook:
Bristol Press reporter resigns in protest following plagiarized piece connected to Sheldon Adelson  —  Why I quit my job as a reporter today  —  Twenty five years ago, as a young reporter, I sat in an Upstate New York courtroom where a judge ordered me to hand over a leaked hospital lab slip …
Columbia Journalism Review:
Investigative local reporting has a future—but it won't look like the past  —  This post was co-authored by Josh Stearns and Molly de Aguiar.  —  Over the course of the last two weeks, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has gone in search of local investigative reporting.
Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:
FiveThirtyEight Enters the Puzzle Game  —  Last week, FiveThirtyEight quietly began publishing a weekly puzzle.  Called The Riddler, it features the kind of logic-heavy questions one might find on a Mensa test—appropriate for Nate Silver's wonky, data-driven website, which is owned by ESPN.
Economist:
Disney is making a fortune and safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece  —  UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Star Wars, Disney and myth-making Fly Title:  Briefing: Disney Rubric:  Disney is making a fortune and safeguarding its future by buying childhood …
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Univision lost $17.8M on Fusion in the first 9 months of 2015, 50% higher than the 2014 first 9 month loss of $11.9M  —  Here's How Much Disney and Univision Have Lost on Fusion  —  Fusion, the millennial-focused television network and online media property jointly owned by Walt Disney Co. and Univision …
Discussion: Financial Times and @rustyk5
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Inside Google's plan to speed up the mobile Web … Earlier this year, Google announced an effort to speed up mobile news — and the entire mobile Web — with a new initiative called Accelerated Mobile Pages.  AMP, as it's called, has been described as an open-source bid to overhaul mobile performance …
Discussion: @wblau
Bryan Lufkin / Gizmodo:
Disney-funded VR service, Littlstar, announces it's bringing 360-degree videos to Apple TV  —  You Can Now Watch 360-Degree Video on Your TV  —  Earlier this year, YouTube rolled out 360-degree videos.  Like magic, they let you peer around in any direction from within the video.
Discussion: USA Today
BostonGlobe.com:
DraftKings and FanDuel sue to keep operating in Illinois  —  DraftKings Inc. vowed to keep awarding cash prizes for fantasy sports contests in Illinois despite the state attorney general's opinion that the games amount to illegal gambling.  —  The Boston-based company said it would fight …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Express Newspapers seeks almost £4m in editorial budget cuts  —  Richard Desmond's press group not thought to be looking at reducing numbers of staff, who have been refused pay rise for eighth consecutive year  —  Richard Desmond is seeking almost £4m in cuts to editorial budgets …
 
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