Mediagazer: Naji Jerf, Syrian journalist, author of anti-ISIS documentaries, killed in Gaziantep, Turkey (Agence France-Presse)

7:00 PM ET, December 28, 2015

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Christopher Bodeen / Associated Press:

China says new restrictions to come on terrorism reporting — 3 photos — BEIJING (AP) — China said Monday it would impose new restrictions on media reports about domestic terrorism, as it continued to deride a French journalist being forced to leave the country for questioning Beijing's claims about the terrorist threat it faces.

Becky Davis / Agence France-Presse:
China to expel Ursula Gauthier, a French Jounalist from L'Obs magazine who questioned government's treatment of Muslim Uighur minority

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Central Connecticut … and Hartford Courant

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Sole WDBJ shooting survivor, Vicki Gardner, speaks out about the tragedy — WDBJ shooting victim on the tragedy, TV violence and looking ‘ahead’ — Four months after she was shot in the back during a live TV broadcast, Vicki Gardner is finally finished with surgeries and is almost ready to return to work.

Discussion: Cosmopolitan, WHSV-TV, BuzzFeed, WDBJ-TV, WSET-TV, New York Daily News, WTHI-TV, NEWS.com.au, KTLA and Daily Mail

Ed Christman / Billboard:

Spotify Announces Database to Properly Manage Royalties — A woman walks through a hallway at Spotify offices following a press conference in New York City.

Discussion: Spotify for Artists, The Next Web, hypebot, TweakTown News, Yahoo, Ubergizmo, PanARMENIAN.Net and Engadget

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Trademark Filings Point To More Beats Radio Stations Coming To Apple Music — Just-spotted trademark applications from Apple-owned Beats Electronics, LLC point to Apple's plans to introduce more live streaming radio stations to its Apple Music service to accompany its 24-hour station, Beats 1.

Discussion: MacRumors, Billboard, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, hypebot, AppleInsider and Engadget

Dan Gillmor / Nieman Lab:

Journalists must become activists for free expression amid increasing government surveillance and corporate control — Journalists turn activist — In 2016, journalists will recognize that they have to be activists — if they want to call themselves journalists, that is.

Discussion: @sulliview

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Bollywood studios and US giants like 21st Century Fox, Amazon, and Netflix hope to persuade people in India to pay for video — Bollywood and U.S. Media Giants Try to Induce Indians to Pay for Video — MUMBAI — As the morning rain dripped in the garden outside, the yoga teacher Aparajita Jamwal got …

Agence France-Presse:

Naji Jerf, Syrian journalist, author of anti-ISIS documentaries, killed in Gaziantep, Turkey — Syria anti-IS documentary maker ‘assassinated’ in Turkey — Beirut (AFP) - A Syrian activist who produced documentaries hostile to the Islamic State group was assassinated in Turkey Sunday …

Tim Peterson / Ad Age:

Snapchat adds a year-in-review music-themed channel that runs from Saturday till the end of the year to Discover, sponsored exclusively by Spotify — Snapchat Is Making Its Own Original Content for Discover Again — App Adds Year-in-Review Music Channel to Discover, Sponsored by Spotify

Jessica Lussenhop / BBC:

Profile of Bill Proctor, a retired WXYZ-TV reporter investigating suspected cases of wrongful conviction in Michigan, including 1996 murder of 12-year-old girl — TV reporter spends retirement investigating brutal murder — After a long career in television, Bill Proctor could have spent his retirement out of the spotlight.

Discussion: @bbcnewsus, Newser and @mkonnikova

Anjali Mullany / Nieman Lab:

An experiment on Facebook with controversial content shows how platforms decide who is heard and who is censored — Platforms decide who gets heard — As you are most certainly aware, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump recently suggested that Muslims be banned from entering the United States for a while.

Austin Ramzy / New York Times:

China sentences former 21st Century Media top executive Shen Hao to 4 years for extortion and embezzlement — Ex-News Executive in China Gets 4-Year Sentence for Extortion — HONG KONG — A court in Shanghai sentenced a prominent former news executive on Thursday to four years in prison for extortion …