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Alessandro Sabatelli / The Twitter Blog:
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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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
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
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
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
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
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
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Guardian:
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.
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
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
Patrick Coffee / Adweek:
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
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
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.”
David Bauder / Associated Press:
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
Bloomberg:
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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George Slefo / Ad Age:
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
Nausicaa Renner / Columbia Journalism Review:
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