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12:30 AM ET, January 28, 2016

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Michael Calderone / Huffington Post:
Bloomberg Editor Quits Over Fear The Company Can't Cover Michael Bloomberg Aggressively  —  “The bottom line is, you can't cover the circus unless you can write about one of the biggest elephants in the room,” said Kathy Kiely.  —  Can Bloomberg aggressively cover Bloomberg?
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to propose new rules to give cable and satellite customers more choice over set top boxes, as 40 telco and media groups are expected to oppose the plan  —  FCC to Propose Overhauling Rules on Set-Top Boxes  —  Measure, aimed at cutting cable bills, likely would let consumers choose among competing devices
Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
20th Century Fox Signs Chinese Streaming Deal with Baidu's iQIYI  —  20th Century Fox will begin streaming movies like “The Martian” in China through a deal with search giant Baidu's subscription Internet video portal iQIYI, the companies said Wednesday.  —  Financial terms weren't disclosed.
Thomas Oide / The Maneater:
University of Missouri suspends professor Melissa Click, who called for “muscle” against student reporter  —  Melissa Click suspended by UM System Board of Curators pending further investigation  —  Suspension comes after being charged for third-degree assault on Monday.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Periscope integrates with GoPro to bring live streaming to action cameras  —  Periscope just took its first steps away from the smartphone.  The Twitter-owned live-streaming app announced an integration with GoPro that will let users broadcast to their followers from an action camera for the first time.
Conor Dougherty / New York Times:
What it's like to cover Google when you can't get an interview with Larry Page  —  Try to Interview Google's Chief Executive.  It's Emasculating.  —  I started as The New York Times's Google beat reporter in August 2014.  Shortly thereafter, I told the company's public relations people …
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
A working theory: Adelson overpaid for the Las Vegas Review-Journal because the deal included obscuring his connection to critical coverage of Nevada judges  —  Journalists as ‘hit squad:’ Connecting the dots on Sheldon Adelson, the Review-Journal of Las Vegas and Edward Clarkin in Connecticut
Mike McPhate / New York Times:
With Corbis Sale, Tiananmen Protest Images Go to Chinese Media Company  —  Corbis, the photography archive owned by Bill Gates that includes some of the most famous pictures ever made, has sold its image and licensing division to a Chinese company.  —  The sale gives the new owner …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump will skip Fox News debate on Thursday  —  Rewriting the book of campaign rules once more, Donald Trump is skipping Thursday's GOP debate and attacking the Fox News Channel.  Instead of attending the debate, “We'll have an event here in Iowa, with potentially another network …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
IndiePix Films Launches Subscription-Streaming Service with 400-Plus International Movies  —  Another niche-oriented video subscription service is bellying up to the digital entertainment bar: IndiePix Films, a small New York distributor of independent international movies …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

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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