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8:40 PM ET, January 6, 2016

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Natt Garun / The Next Web:
Netflix expands to 130 new countries including India, Vietnam, Turkey, South Korea, Poland, and Russia, but not China; stock up over 5%  —  Netflix officially arrives in India, Russia, Vietnam and more - totaling 130 new countries  —  At the opening keynote at CES, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings …
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  —  Twitter Isn't Raising the Character Limit.  It's Becoming a Walled Garden.  —  Tweeters are freaking out—again—about another report that Twitter …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Interview with Steve Patrizi, Imgur's vice president of marketing and revenue, on how the image-sharing site plans to make money with Promoted Posts  —  How Imgur is taking on Facebook and Twitter as ‘geek culture’ goes mainstream  —  Imgur, which began in 2009 as a university side project …
 
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