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5:50 AM ET, December 14, 2016

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New York Times:
Amplified by the US media, Russia executed an effective cyber offensive against the DNC, aided by a sluggish FBI response  —  WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along …
Emily Steel / New York Times:
21st Century Fox faces new lawsuit that claims Roger Ailes sexually harassed reporter Lidia Curanaj in 2011  —  Nearly five months after Roger Ailes was ousted from his position as chairman of Fox News Channel, the sexual harassment accusations against him continue.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Memo from publisher Fred Ryan: Washington Post is profitable, and traffic increased nearly 50% with digital subscription revenue more than doubling in past year  —  The Washington Post is a profitable and growing enterprise, the newspaper's publisher announced in a memo to staffers Tuesday evening.
Discussion: @loriamontgomery and @fahrenthold
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / WWD:
Amid increased concerns about fake news, The New Yorker adds a “not the news” tagline and banner to The Borowitz Report  —  The New Yorker has taken steps to clarify that The Borowitz Report is not actually true.  —  What it looks like when The Borowitz Report is shared on social media.
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood studios win preliminary injunction against VidAngel, the streaming service that lets users filter language, sex, and nudity from movies  —  A screenshot from the website for Vid  A U.S. district judge has sided with Hollywood studios in their legal battle to block VidAngel …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Elizabeth Ailes, wife of Fox News' Roger Ailes, sells her two newspapers, excluding buildings, in upstate New York to Editor-in-Chief Douglas Cunningham  —  Elizabeth Ailes, wife of former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, announced on Tuesday that she's selling two newspapers in Putnam County, New York.
Felix Salmon / Nieman Lab:
In 2017, headlines will matter more than ever and journalists will need to wrest control of headline writing from social-optimization teams  —  2017 will be the year that news organizations start approaching headlines with the importance they deserve.  —  A few years ago …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Amazon expands Prime Video to 200+ countries excluding China, no additional cost for Prime members, $5.99/month in countries with no Prime subscription option  —  A month after it dropped major hints, Amazon has made its Prime Video service available in more than more than 200 countries worldwide bringing …
Eve Peyser / Gizmodo:
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 …
Dan Frommer / Recode:
RBC survey: 18% of Instagram users say they watch Stories daily; 53% say they watch them at least monthly  —  Almost 20 percent of Instagram users say they watch ‘Stories’ every day.  —  How is Instagram's Snapchat Stories clone doing?  —  Some 18 percent of U.S. Instagram users surveyed …
Taylor Owen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Pondering the possibilities and the challenges for journalism in virtual worlds as VR becomes mainstream  —  In June 2003, the San Francisco company Linden Labs launched a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game called Second Life.  It quickly grew to over a million users …
Discussion: Oculus, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, @tim and Fortune
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Virtual reality game-maker Survios raises Series C round led by film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Discussion: The Wrap and VentureBeat
 
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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
Scott Dadich / Wired:
Wired will publish its first ever fiction-only issue in January, featuring sci-fi stories by different authors
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
How the Obama administration laid the groundwork for Trump's coming crackdown on the press, starting with killing the ‘media shield’ bill
Discussion: @johncusack
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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
Discussion: @poynter
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
Discussion: TheBlaze