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12:30 PM ET, January 27, 2016

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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 …
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.
Business Wire:
Nexstar Broadcasting Group Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Media General for $4.6 Billion in Accretive Cash and Stock Transaction  —  Nexstar Broadcasting Group Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Media General for $4.6 Billion in Accretive Cash and Stock Transaction
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 …
Sridhar Pappu / New York Magazine:
How New York Daily News editor-in-chief James Rich uses newspaper covers on Twitter to attract digital readers  —  How the New York Daily News Became Twitter's Tabloid  —  The paper is reinventing the attention-grabbing, old-school front page as an agenda-setter on social media.
Associated Press:
Al-Jazeera sues Egypt over arrests, raids and seizures  —  CAIRO (AP) — Al-Jazeera is suing Egypt over its crackdown on the Qatar-owned broadcaster's activists and journalists following the 2013 overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, the network said Wednesday.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
YouTube now lets video creators use Donation Cards, which overlay the page, to help raise money for charities directly  —  YouTube's New Donation Cards Help Video Creators Raise Money For Charities  —  YouTube just made it a lot easier for its users in the U.S. to use their videos to drive donations to nonprofit organizations.
Reuters:
Sources: Apple building paywall system to let publishers offer subscription content through the News app  —  Apple plans to offer subscription content through News app  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is working to make subscription content available through its News app, giving publishers with paywalls …
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Publishers like Mic reinvent the homepage, using it for experimentation and brand-building  —  The publisher homepage is making a comeback  —  With the rise of social and search, the publisher homepage was left for dead.  —  Slowly but surely, the homepage is making something of a comeback, albeit in a new form.
Agence France-Presse:
Turkey prosecutors seek life terms for two anti-Erdogan journalists  —  Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish prosecutors demanded life sentences for two top journalists from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper on charges of revealing state secrets with a report that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government tried …
Financial Times:
Ministers retreat from move to weaken freedom of information law  —  Ministers are retreating from efforts to weaken freedom of information legislation after strong opposition made it likely they would lose a legislative battle to enact the changes.  —  The FOI rules, which enshrine public access …
Medium Legal:
Medium blocked by at least some Malaysian ISPs, including Telekom Malaysia, after declining to take down post by Sarawak Report  —  The Post Stays Up  —  As some of you have noted, Medium's now blocked in Malaysia.  —  Here's what happened.  —  The Sarawak Report's website has been blocked in Malaysia since summer 2015.
 
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