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12:00 AM ET, January 7, 2016

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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Netflix launches in 130 additional countries, now available in 190 countries worldwide, excluding China, Crimea, North Korea, and Syria, stock up 9%  —  At CES, Netflix Announces Worldwide Expansion of Streaming Service  —  Netflix went live with its streaming television service …
Biz Carson / Business Insider:
Sources: Yahoo to lay off at least 10%, or 1,000+ employees including some in media division, as early as this month  —  Yahoo is prepping to lay off 10% or more of its workforce  —  Major layoffs will be coming to Yahoo as part of its planned reorganization to get its business back on track.
Discussion: @alex and Associated Press
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
As Twitter weighs a longer character count, users reiterate preference for an edit function  —  Edit Tweets?  Users Debate a Missing Twitter Feature  —  Never mind longer tweets, many Twitter users are saying.  What about an editing function?  —  After reports on Tuesday that 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
Edward Vielmetti / Vacuum weblog:
MLive Media Group in Michigan cuts 29 content positions across state, primarily in management and newspaper production  —  Cuts coming to MLive, 2016 edition  —  ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, January 6, 2016.  Columbia Journalism Review's Anna Clark broke the news of cuts at MLive to journalist jobs there, in this post on Twitter.
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Major League Baseball to Stream Live in China Via LeTV  —  Major League Baseball games will be shown live in China beginning later this month.  —  MLB and Le Sports, a unit of fast-moving Chinese online group LeTV (aka Leshi Internet Information & Technology), struck a three-year deal covering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
US consumers bought 241.4M albums last year, down 6% from 2014, streamed 317.2B songs, nearly double that of 2014  —  Adele Album Resists the Streaming Trend in Music Sales  —  For the last few years, the prevailing theme in the recorded music business has been that CD and download sales …
Associated Press:
Egypt to try 6 reporters for allegedly defaming minister  —  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian prosecutor has referred six local journalists to trial for allegedly spreading “false news” that defamed the justice minister.  —  Prosecutor Fathy Bayoumi said Wednesday that the six were sent to court …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Las Vegas Review-Journal names Glenn Cook interim editor  —  The Las Vegas Review-Journal has named an interim newsroom leader as it searches for someone to fill the top editorial slot on a permanent basis.  —  Employees at the embattled Nevada newspaper announced on Twitter Wednesday that Glenn Cook …
Discussion: @joepompeo, bookforum.com and @iandon
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Sony to launch 4K video streaming service Ultra in US this year, will bring Sony content to Bravia TVs  —  Sony to launch 4K streaming service in US this year  —  Sony will launch a 4K video streaming service in the U.S. this year, seeking to give consumers access to more content to watch on 4K TVs.
Kirsty Styles / The Next Web:
Twitter misses deadline to pay $50K fine for hosting what Turkey's telecoms regulator defined as terrorist propaganda  —  Twitter misses deadline to pay Turkey's $50,000 terrorist propaganda fine  —  Twitter has missed the deadline for paying a $50,000 fine imposed on it by the Turkish government …
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 …
 
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Martha Stewart Employees Laid Off as Part of Editorial Transition
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Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
As problems persist with new distributor, Boston Globe rehires old distributor to handle some newspaper routes