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7:35 PM ET, January 2, 2016

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Rob Price / Business Insider:
Twitter is reversing its ban on political watchdog Politwoops  —  Four months after being banned by Twitter, Politwoops is coming back.  —  If you're not familiar with it, Politwoops is a kind of social media watchdog.  It automatically monitors the Twitter feeds of politicians and highlights whenever they delete a tweet.
Nancy Scola / Politico:
How Medium, which opened a Washington DC office last spring, is courting politicians on the left and right  —  How Medium is breaking Washington's op-ed habit  —  The online publishing platform has assiduously courted the political class.  —  Medium, the three-year-old online publishing platform run …
Agence France-Presse:
Fifth man working for Hong Kong publishers critical of Chinese government goes missing, wife says  —  Another Hong Kong bookseller goes missing: wife  —  Hong Kong (AFP) - A Hong Kong employee of a publishing firm known for producing books critical of the Chinese government has gone missing …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post drops progressive columnist Harold Meyerson, claiming poor social media metrics and excessive discussion of two topics  —  Washington Post Claims It Dropped A Progressive Columnist Because Of Poor Readership.  Readers Aren't Happy.  —  Bernie Sanders says the columnist's “insights will be sorely missed.”
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
On the ‘digital frontline,’ social media reporters and editors exposed to vicarious trauma  —  As part of her job as a social media editor for the Associated Press, Hannah Cushman had to watch a video over and over again of a 17-year-old killed by a Chicago police officer.  How many times did she view the shooting?
Anasuya Basu / BBC:
Inside India's Balaknama, a quarterly newspaper by former street children and child laborers focused on kids still working or on the streets  —  The street children who run a newspaper in India  —  A group of street children are busy in an unusual editorial meeting in a house in the Indian capital, Delhi.
Allison Lampert / Reuters:
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's health deteriorating, wife says  —  Imprisoned Saudi blogger's health deteriorating, wife says  —  Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, recent recipient of a prestigious European human rights award, has suffered fainting spells and deteriorating health …
Discussion: The Next Web, presstv.ir and Newsweek
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
LexisNexis Sells Law School Publishing Business To Carolina Academic Press  —  As a LexixNexis author, I received the following email: Law School Publishing News from LexisNexis Matthew Bender and Carolina Academic Press (posted with permission of LexisNexis):
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Authors Guild asks US Supreme Court to consider its case against Google's book scanning without copyright fees; appeals court ruled in Google's favor in October  —  The Authors Guild files to take Google to the Supreme Court  —  The Authors Guild has officially asked the Supreme Court …
Darren Rovell / ESPN:
New York attorney general amends suit against DraftKings, FanDuel, seeking that profits made in NY be returned, users' losses be repaid, and $5K fine per case  —  New York attorney general amends lawsuit against daily fantasy sites  —  The fight to stay in business in New York got a bit uglier …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Crowdfunded ‘Star Trek’ Movie Draws Lawsuit from Paramount, CBS  —  ‘Axanar’ aims to be a professional-quality prequel and has raised more than $1 million.  —  For decades, Paramount and CBS have tolerated and even encouraged fans of the Star Trek franchise to use their imagination at will …
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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