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9:15 AM ET, December 13, 2016

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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Committee to Protect Journalists: At least 257 journalists jailed in 2016, the highest number since CPJ began its annual census of imprisonments in 1990  —  At least 257 journalists have been jailed around the world this year, a press advocacy group reported on Monday, the most since it began …
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.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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 …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Stephen Hayes named EIC of the conservative Weekly Standard; Bill Kristol, the magazine's co-founder and current EIC, will become editor at large  —  The Weekly Standard has named senior writer Stephen Hayes its next editor in chief.  Bill Kristol, the magazine's co-founder and current editor …
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Amazon and Netflix make up 40% of Golden Globe nominations this year, receiving as many individually as the broadcast networks combined  —  Streaming heavyweights Netflix and Amazon are spending gargantuan amounts of money on TV shows, and it's getting results.
April Glaser / Recode:
On Friday, the Senate failed to reconfirm Democratic pro-net neutrality FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, portending new Trump era leadership and agenda  —  The Senate failed to reconfirm one of net neutrality's top advocates at the FCC.  —  Setting the stage for new leadership …
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 …
Deirdre Edgar / Los Angeles Times:
LA Times EIC Maharaj says that two letters defending WWII internment of Japanese-Americans should not have been published, weren't “civil, fact-based discourse”  —  Tule Lake, which held nearly 19,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, is now maintained by the National Park Service.
 
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Kerry Flynn / Mashable:
Facebook is hiring a Head of News Partnerships, seeking a news executive with 20+ years experience, as it struggles with the fallout from the fake news scandal
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Craig Newmark Foundation, charity founded by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, donates $1M to Poynter to fund faculty chair in journalism ethics position
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Google's first search result for “Did the Holocaust happen?” is a post from neo-Nazi site Stormfront, showing how Google's algorithm is helping disseminate hate
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico's Chief Political Correspondent Glenn Thrush is joining the NYT to cover the White House; Thrush's roots are in tabloid journalism
 

 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions

 
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