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Twitter introduces live 360-degree videos on Periscope and Twitter from select partners — Today, we're introducing a new way to see what's happening on Twitter - through live 360 video. — Starting today, you can check out live, interactive 360 videos from interesting broadcasters and explore what's happening with them.
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Periscope, SocialTimes, Multichannel News, VentureBeat, The Verge, ValueWalk, AppAdvice.com Latest, Business Insider, Agence France-Presse, AppleInsider, BetaNews, Softpedia News, BGR, Mashable, MacRumors, @joshrthompson, Recode, 9to5Mac, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Variety, Pocket-lint, Android Police and Engadget
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After years of rejecting the “media company” label, Twitter is hiring Periscope editors, broadcasting news alerts, and airing premium live video — If you're wondering whether Twitter views itself as a media company or not, take a look at its careers page.
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Editor & Publisher, @catecoleman, @peterhimler, @davewiner, @jayfranzone, @kantrowitz, @eileenmcarey, @johnpaczkowski and @fwd

Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump, from charitable giving to the Access Hollywood tape — “Arnold and Tim, if you'd come up, we're going to give you a nice, beautiful check," Donald Trump said.
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@jackshafer, The Week, @michaelkruse, @_aaronneil, @ahofschneider, @pjxturner, @bterris, @jackshafer, @ddale8, @fahrenthold, @ron_fournier, @postbaron, @evanasmith, @terri_rupar, @radiofreegeorgy, @doristruong, @markberman, @markberman, @lkherman, @stephenrodrick, @ztracer, @fahrenthold, NPR and New York Magazine


Milo Yiannopoulos signs an autobiographical book deal with Threshold Editions, a Simon & Schuster imprint; sources say the advance is $250K — “They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened," says Yiannopoulos.
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@juddlegum, @bafeldman, @ryanlcooper, @janinegibson, @cwarzel, @jamesrbuk, @sarahw and @drudge_report


A Muslim reporter recounts the emotional toll of covering the presidential campaign, during which an interviewee told her Muslims should be exterminated — “We should exterminate them.” — The words rolled off the voter's tongue as though he was merely discussing a pest invasion in his home.


Amos Yee, the Singapore teen convicted of “wounding religious feelings” with YouTube videos, flees to US and seeks asylum — Americans who identify with President-elect Donald J. Trump's message of anti-political correctness may have a new, unlikely ally: a Singaporean teenager …
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@nytimesworld, @dangillmor, @mrbaopanrui and @theasianist


CEO of Dentsu, Japan's largest ad agency, says he will resign after government investigation into its culture of overwork — Dentsu chief executive officer Tadashi Ishii announced today that he will resign next month after leading the network for more than five years.
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Business Insider, New York Times, Japan Times, Ad Age, Wall Street Journal and Top Digital Journal News


Kremlin-backed media and US far-right sites have adopted the “fake news” term to discredit reports of Aleppo bombings — It's been less than a week since Syrian Prime Minister Bashar al-Assad thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for helping “liberate Aleppo.”


After doing an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca was harassed on Twitter and received a rape threat on Christmas day — NEW YORK (AP) — A woman involved in a heated debate with Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson over Ivanka Trump said Tuesday she's received thousands …
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Washington Post and @nanettehb


Despite efforts, the diversity of Wikipedia's overwhelmingly white and male editorial pool has been slow to improve — Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi is a 53-year-old British-Nigerian human-rights activist and, it's fair to say, a person of some note. She's co-founder of the African Women's Development Fund …
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BuzzFeed


IAB report: digital ad revenue climbed 20% year over year to $17.6B in Q3 — Digital advertising is on a relentless path toward gobbling up more ad dollars, with marketers spending a record-breaking $17.6 billion on digital in the third quarter of 2016. That represents a 20% year-over-year increase …
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Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable, @aexm, @sarahcuda, @vettiguy, Business Wire, MediaPost and Adweek


Publishers grapple with notifications, which have traffic-driving potential but lack some usage data, as news alerts become more complex — Imagine, for just a moment, that you do not compulsively visit nytimes.com every morning on your desktop to read the Morning Briefing.
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The New York Observer, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, @borthwick and @s_m_i