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11:00 AM ET, January 5, 2016

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Las Vegas Review-Journal staff told to ease up on coverage of new owner — Now that Sheldon Adelson's family owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal, how should the newspaper handle stories that involve Adelson? — Or to ask the question another way: How can and should the paper cover itself?

Joe Pompeo / Politico:

Las Vegas Review-Journal taps Providence Journal executive editor Dave Butler to help establish guidelines on covering newspaper's owner — Review-Journal brass brings in Dave Butler to guide newsroom — New Media Investment Group, the company that continues to manage the Las Vegas Review-Journal …

Discussion: Politico, Poynter, The Newspaper Guild, @jayrosen_nyu, @petersterne, @bradagreenberg, @stephgrimes, @jeffjarvis, @stephgrimes, @joepompeo, @stephgrimes and @joepompeo

Jennifer Robison / Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Michael Schroeder, manager of News + Media Capital Group LLC, which bought the Las Vegas Review Journal, has been removed from position — Controversial ‘manager’ of Review-Journal parent company removed from job — The Connecticut newspaper publisher at the center of a national media-ethics firestorm …

Discussion: New York Times, @iandon, @rickhasen, @reviewjournal, @jayrosen_nyu and Poynter

Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

Source: China's Dalian Wanda agrees to buy majority stake in Legendary Entertainment, valuing the movie studio between $3-$4B — Exclusive: Dalian Wanda clinches deal for Legendary Entertainment - source — Chinese property and investment firm Dalian Wanda Group has agreed to acquire …

Discussion: The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Asia Stocks to Watch, South China Morning Post, Variety and Deadline

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Yahoo shuts down Yahoo Screen, moves video content to its digital magazines like Yahoo Music — Yahoo Shutters Video Service Yahoo Screen (Exclusive) — Yahoo has shut down Yahoo Screen, the video hub the beleaguered company launched over two years ago to unite its many original and syndicated programming under one roof.

Open State Foundation:

Politwoops back online after Twitter reversed its ban, tracks deleted tweets of politicians in 25 countries — Politwoops up and running in 25 countries, more to come — Today, Open State Foundation has set Politwoops back online. After an agreement reached with Twitter …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Naked Security and Boing Boing

Kim Christensen / Los Angeles Times:

Former L.A. Times columnist T.J. Simers' jury award is cut by $2.1 million — A judge has cut $2.1 million from a $7.1-million award to former Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers, ruling Monday that there was little or no evidence to support a jury's conclusion that he had been forced out of his $234,000-a-year job.

Discussion: LA Observed

Natalie Sherman / Baltimore Sun:

Baltimore Sun interim CEO and publisher Rick Daniels made permanent — Rick Daniels named publisher of The Baltimore Sun … The owner of the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday named a new leader of Maryland's 179-year-old news organization, after transferring the previous publisher to California to head the L.A. Times.

Will Oremus / Slate:

Facebook's News Feed team on algorithms, relevancy scores, and the importance of giving users more control over their feeds — Who Controls Your Facebook Feed — A small team of engineers in Menlo Park. A panel of anonymous power users around the world. And, increasingly, you.

Discussion: @ethanz, @mathewi, @benmullin and Business Insider

Guardian:

‘Smear campaign’ against Chinese president linked to disappearance of Hong Kong booksellers — Five men who traded in salacious books about Communist party elite feared abducted, but wife of missing Lee Bo has attempted to withdraw police report — The suspected abductions …

Discussion: Hong Kong Free Press, Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, @pekingmike, @mrrfh, @tomphillipsin, Featured Articles, New York Times and Melville House Books

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Activision acquires assets of Major League Gaming for $46M; CEO Robert Kotick says he wants to build “the ESPN of video games” — Activision Buys Major League Gaming to Broaden Role in E-Sports — Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Call of Duty and other hit video game franchises …

Tom Wyke / Daily Mail:

ISIS kills female journalist Ruqia Hassan in Syria, after accusing her of being a spy; believed to be first female journalist to be killed by ISIS — 'Go ahead and cut off the internet, our messenger pigeons won't complain': Last post of female journalist executed by ISIS ‘for being a spy’

Discussion: Press Gazette and SYRIA:direct

Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:

Charlie Hebdo Runs Religious Extremism Cartoon Cover on Anniversary of Terror Attack — Charlie Hebdo Runs Religious Extremism Cartoon Cover on Anniversary of Terror Attack — Thursday will mark the anniversary of the deadly attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo …

Discussion: Guardian, Agence France-Presse, mUmBRELLA, Guardian, Quartz, Mediaite, Washington Post, Canada - The Huffington Post, EW.com, DW.COM and Mashable

John Hopewell / Variety:
Netflix to stream Je Suis Charlie documentary on January 7, the first anniversary of terrorist attack which claimed lives of Charlie Hebdo staff

Discussion: LostRemote, Realscreen, The Malaysian Insider and Tubefilter

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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

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