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12:05 PM ET, December 18, 2016

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Politico:
Jared Kushner says Trump campaign struck deal with Sinclair to give TV chain more access in exchange for interviews airing at all affiliates without commentary  —  Donald Trump's campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group during the campaign to try and secure better media coverage …
David Skok / Nieman Lab:
Publishers could use machine learning, predictive and anticipatory analytics to give readers real-time, user-specific options instead of outdated paywalls  —  For over a decade, digital publishers have been wrestling with an existential strategic question: Should we pursue consumer or advertising revenue as our primary revenue stream?
Discussion: @dskok
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Molly de Aguiar / Nieman Lab:
Philanthropists for news should provide operating support with no strings attached and encourage newsrooms to take creative risks, collaborate with partners  —  2017 is the year that philanthropy stops asking, “Why should we fund news and information?” and starts asking, “How do we get started?”
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Netflix signs content deal with the production house of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan  —  Global streaming giant, Netflix has struck a long-term relationship with Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan's production house Red Chillies Entertainment.  —  Netflix subscribers will have access …
Madeline Conway / Politico:
President Obama scolds media for its focus on hacked emails from Democratic Party officials during the campaign, obscuring other issues  —  President Barack Obama on Friday chided the news media for its focus on hacked emails from Democratic Party officials during the presidential campaign, calling the coverage “an obsession.”
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Washington Post offers Chrome extension that fact-checks Trump's tweets  —  On Friday morning, President-elect Donald Trump took a new tack in his war on the Russia hacking issue. … As our Dave Weigel noted, this isn't really accurate.  There was nothing illegal at play …
Nielsen:
Nielsen Scarborough: more than 169M US adults read a newspaper a month, via print, web, or mobile; 81% engage with print product, and 51% read print exclusively  —  Ever hear the phrase “print is dead”?  Well if you check with almost 170 million Americans, they'd tell you that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Leah Finnegan / The Outline:
Vice reporter James Burns' livestream of his voluntary 30-day stint in solitary confinement is not reporting, it's stunt journalism  —  The truth cannot be created.  —  When I was a pretentious college student many years ago I really wanted to be an anthropologist.
Discussion: @outline
Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with historians from NPR and University of Louisville, plus the director of Radio Preservation Task Force on mapping the history of US public broadcasts  —  How many historical radio broadcasts have been lost to history?  —  Josh Shepperd, an assistant professor of media studies …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
RNC chief strategist Sean Spicer says Trump won't ban news outlets from White House briefing room but will consider altering format of the daily press briefing  —  A likely candidate to land a top communications job in President-elect Donald Trump's White House said Thursday …
Discussion: @joshuagreen and @jayrosen_nyu
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Memo: New York Times will vacate at least 8 floors of its building and seek rental income, temporarily moving some staffers including print services amid re-org  —  The New York Times will vacate eight floors of its midtown headquarters in a bid to make some money and improve its efficiency.
 
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Telegraph begins streaming TV shows with Telegraph Now Showing, a joint venture with Endemol Shine Group, starting with eight shows from Endemol's archives
Patrick Coffee / Adweek:
Publicis and Omnicom get US Justice Department subpoenas in probe of potential bid rigging in video ad production; Interpublic Group unit was subpoenaed earlier
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Vanity Fair added 13K subscriptions in 24 hours after Trump's Thursday tweet, the highest number of subscriptions ever sold in a single day at Condé Nast
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Sumner Redstone to leave Viacom board in February, but he will attend meetings in nonvoting role, keep control of his media empire through National Amusements
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Ken Doctor / Politico:
Parsely report: about 66% of weekend news reading is now done on smartphones and tablets, while only 55% of overall usage is on mobile
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
In a Q&A, MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski defend themselves against accusations that they have become too cozy with Donald Trump
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Facebook underreported iPhone traffic to Instant Articles tracked by comScore from Sept. 30 to Nov. 30; report says some publishers' numbers affected by 10-20%
David Giambusso / Politico:
NJ publishers say Christie's bill to end print legal ads could cause revenue at newspapers across the state to fall by 15%, resulting in the loss of 300 jobs
Discussion: @rizzotk