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5:05 PM ET, December 1, 2016

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Peter Kafka / Recode:
The owner of the Daily Mail has written down all of its investment in Elite Daily, citing poor performance, and is taking a $31M loss  —  It's taking a $31 million loss.  —  Elite Daily used to look like a digital publishing success story: Founded by a couple of twentysomethings in 2012 …
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Condé Nast's Self magazine is going all digital; its February issue will be its last regular print production and roughly 20 to 30 jobs will be cut  —  Condé Nast is said to make bigger restructuring moves around the new year.  —  Condé Nast is closing Self magazine in print, WWD has learned.
Adrian Chen / New Yorker:
The anonymous group PropOrNot mislabeled some dissenting voices as Russian propaganda using messy methodology, with help from The Washington Post  —  In late October, I received an e-mail from “The PropOrNot Team,” which described itself as a “newly-formed independent team of computer scientists …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Reuters unveils Reuters News Tracer, its custom tool to monitor Twitter for breaking news and assign scores for veracity to tweets  —  “The world has a lot more witnesses now, and we can't be at everything.  Our tool helps shift some of the burden of witnessing and lets journalists do much more of the high value-added work."
Chris Welch / The Verge:
CBS and NFL reach multiyear deal allowing streaming of games starting Sunday on All Access  —  Only available in markets where CBS streams live TV  —  CBS and the National Football League have reached an agreement to let subscribers of the network's $6-per-month All Access service stream live NFL games.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN interview shows some Trump voters citing “the media” and Facebook for false info that 3M non-citizens voted and Obama told undocumented people to vote  —  CNN's “New Day” program this morning gathered the thoughts of a group of Donald Trump supporters on issues ranging from the election to the transition and the media.
YouTube Blog:
YouTube announces support for 4K live streams of 360-degree and standard videos; first 4K stream will be Game Awards on December 1  —  Back in 2010, we enabled 4K video support for the very first time.  Since then, millions of videos have been uploaded at that eye-popping resolution …
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Breitbart launches a boycott against Kellogg's after the cereal company pulls its ads from the site  —  Breitbart News is going to war with Kellogg's after the cereal maker decided to pull its advertisements from the far-right news site in protest of its political views.
Jane Martinson / The Guardian:
Index on Censorship verifies 406 reports of violence and threats against journalists throughout EU and neighboring countries in three months ending in September  —  Study finds growing hostility toward media around the world has lead to rise in assaults on individuals as well as press freedom
 
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Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Jim VandeHei says his yet-to-launch media startup Axios may charge $10K+ for some subscriptions eventually, but will launch ad-supported and free to readers
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Some high-ranking Reddit moderators say they're losing hope in the site's future as users from the pro-Trump subreddit harass others, inflate vote counts, more
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
Jessica Lessin's recent op-ed for the NYT, in which she defended Facebook, should have included more detail about her ties to the social network
 

 
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals
 
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