Mediagazer: Time Inc.'s president and COO of sales and marketing, Mark Ellis, is leaving the company; Chief Revenue Officer Mark Ford is stepping down from his role (Kelsey Sutton/Politico)

1:00 PM ET, December 13, 2016

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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:

Time Inc.'s president and COO of sales and marketing, Mark Ellis, is leaving the company; Chief Revenue Officer Mark Ford is stepping down from his role — Mark Ellis, Time Inc.'s president and COO of sales and marketing, is leaving the company in March, part of a handful of executive changes …

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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:

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Google refuses to change search results for ‘Did the Holocaust happen?’, despite previously manipulating results to favor its own products — If you Google “did the Holocaust happen” the first result is a link from Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi and white supremacist forum that's widely regarded …

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James Vincent / The Verge:

Judge clears Backpage.com CEO and co-founders of pimping charges, says the listing site is not liable for user-generated content — A judge ruled the operators of the classified listings site could not be held accountable for users' content — The executives of classified listings site Backpage.com …

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Jim VandeHei's new site, Axios, will have a hub in its Washington D.C. HQ called Newsdesk; the site is currently recruiting reporters in D.C. and Silicon Valley — Politico founder Jim VandeHei is hiring for his new startup, and the job descriptions give a few clues about what he and co-founder Mike Allen are up to.

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Wired will publish its first ever fiction-only issue in January, featuring sci-fi stories by different authors — Why fiction? Glad you asked. We live in uncertain times. One of this publication's most important jobs is to see the big trends, spot important business models …

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Salvador Rizzo / NorthJersey.com:

New Jersey judge orders the Trentonian newspaper to stop publishing articles about a child abuse case, a ruling experts say could violate the First Amendment — A New Jersey judge has ordered the Trentonian newspaper to stop publishing articles about a child abuse case …

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Jason Guerrasio / Business Insider:

Director Craig Atkinson claims Netflix blacklisted him from the service after he declined their offer to purchase the rights to his film — In just four years, Netflix has become by far the most watched destination for documentaries, beaming titles to 190 countries and an astounding 83 million global subscribes.

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Oriana Schwindt / Variety:

BBC, ITV partner for US streaming service BritBox which will target US fans of British shows, launching 2017; AMC Networks will take minority stake — For nearly as long as the BBC and ITV have made their programming available for Brits to stream, there have been American viewers seeking …

Discussion: The Guardian, TechCrunch and Pocket-lint

Scott Nover / MediaFile:

Inside the battle between student-run GW Hatchet, a 112-year-old GWU paper, and DC as court rejects tax break request, says it isn't an educational organization — The District of Columbia is locked in a nearly two-year court battle against the student-run GW Hatchet at The George Washington University …

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