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7:15 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 Adds Over 130 Countries to Streaming Service  —  Netflix went live with its streaming television service …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
In rethinking the future of the Maynard Institute, there are no shortcuts and no direct answers  —  How do you reinvent an entire organization, while still hanging on to the founders' original vision?  Where do you even start, faced with that kind of question?  —  You ask more questions, Martin G. Reynolds told me.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram starts curating more Spotlight Compilations for themes and events to highlight users' videos  —  Instagram Goes Beyond The Feed With Everyday Spotlight Compilations  —  Instagram's answer to Snapchat's Live Stories isn't just for holidays and big events any more.
Discussion: The Next Web
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.
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
The Guardian considers abandoning multimillion-pound events shed amid cost cuts  —  Newspaper's plans for events space in historic King's Cross train shed in doubt as job cuts loom  —  The Guardian is considering abandoning multimillion-pound plans to open a large events space …
Discussion: Press Gazette
 
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