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12:40 PM ET, December 1, 2016

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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.
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 …
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  —  Advertising to start, then big-money subscriptions.  —  We still don't know a lot about Axios, the yet-to-launch media startup founded …
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 …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman apologizes for editing user comments and says the company is working to combat abuse by taking action against “toxic users”  —  Reddit will start issuing warnings, timeouts and permanent bans to its most abusive trolls, but will also limit …
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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
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.
Charly Wilder / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo launches in Germany, in response to significant German interest in the paper after the attack on its Paris headquarters nearly two years ago  —  BERLIN — The first German edition of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo arrived on newsstands Thursday …
Discussion: @charlywilder and @nytimes
Reporters Without Borders:
Bahrain sentences Faisal Hayyat, a journalist who hosts a YouTube channel, to three months in jail for a tweet deemed to insult a religious symbol and group  —  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces the conviction of Bahraini journalist and blogger Faisal Hayyat for allegedly insulting religion in a tweet.
Hugh McIntyre / Forbes:
Spotify unveils Singles, a new weekly series featuring exclusive recordings, replaces Sessions with Live  —  Throughout the year, Spotify has seemingly focused its vast resources on several areas: playlists, acquisitions, and original content.  The latter of the three has only been a topic …
 
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Colin Deppen / PennLive:
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review printed its final edition Wednesday, becoming an online-only publication after laying off 106
Discussion: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and WTAE
BuzzFeed:
Majority of BuzzFeed UK's 80-member staff sign cards seeking unionization under National Union of Journalists; CEO Peretti asks for more discussion
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Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:
CBC journalist Edward Ou was denied entry to the US and had his mobile phones briefly confiscated, as he travelled to cover the Dakota Access Pipeline protest
Selina Wang / Bloomberg:
GoPro appears to abandon its plans to become a media company by shutting down entertainment division, cutting 200+ jobs, as part of restructuring