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10:10 AM ET, January 6, 2016

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Sources: Twitter targets Q1 launch and 10K-character limit for “Beyond 140” feature, testing timeline that shows 140 characters with option to expand for more  —  Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets  —  Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter.
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Twitter's “Beyond 140” feature is a plan to host content inside its walled garden, instead of linking to blogs and other websites  —  Twitter Isn't Raising the Character Limit.  It's Becoming a Walled Garden.  —  Tweeters are freaking out—again—about another report that Twitter …
Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
As problems persist with new distributor, Boston Globe rehires old distributor to handle some newspaper routes  —  Globe splits deliveries between two companies  —  After more than a week of confounding problems getting newspapers to subscribers, The Boston Globe has turned …
Amy X. Wang / Quartz:
Report: total global media spending to rise 5% each year for the next five years, print newspapers and magazines to decline as digital takes over  —  Books and newspapers will do just fine in 2016.  Magazines?  Not so much  —  The reign of the consumer magazine—glossy, beautiful …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Dish's Sling TV gets updated UI, pause and rewind for some shows, upgraded sports section with ESPN 3  —  Sling TV, Dish's Internet TV Service For Cord Cutters, Unveils A More Personalized Interface  —  Sling TV, Dish Network's streaming TV service aimed at cord cutters …
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Anjan Sundaram / Observer:
How President Paul Kagame crushed Rwanda's free press  —  In this extract, Sundaram describes the presidential election in 2010, a critical moment in the destruction of a free press  —  he election was a masterpiece of authority.  The vote passed in an ambience of total serenity.
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Martha Stewart Employees Laid Off as Part of Editorial Transition  —  A “small fraction of employees” from Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings were laid off on Tuesday, stemming from the recently signed licensing agreement between Sequential Brands Group and Meredith, a Sequential spokesperson confirmed to Ad Age.
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Kim Christensen / Los Angeles Times:
Judge voids ex-columnist's $7.1-million jury award against L.A. Times  —  Former Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers and his wife, Ginny, leave the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles after winning a $7.1-million judgment in an age bias lawsuit against his former employer, the Los Ageles Times, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015.
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
Fullscreen, GroupM Ink Deal to Form Influencer Marketing Program  —  For more brands to put money toward video deals with digital celebrities, or influencers, it needs to become easier for the brands to pick out which influencers to work with.  “It's much harder for brand owners to keep …
Klaus Lauer / Reuters:
German publishers have filed complaint against Google: VG Media  —  German publishers have filed a complaint against Google in a row over whether or not the search engine should pay the publishers to show their articles online, a spokesman for VG Media - a consortium of around 200 publishers - told Reuters.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Metro Corp., publisher of Philadelphia Magazine and Boston Magazine, cuts seven full-time positions in restructuring  —  Metro Corp., publisher of Boston and Philadelphia magazines, announces cuts  —  Philly Mag  —  Metro Corp., which publishes Philadelphia Magazine and Boston Magazine …
 
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
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VICE News:
VICE journalist Mohammed Rasool released on bail from Turkish prison after four months, must report twice a week to police station near where he lives
Will Oremus / Slate:
Facebook's News Feed team on algorithms, relevancy scores, and the importance of giving users more control over their feeds
 

 
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts got 17.1B views since July 2024

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals
 
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