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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Committee to Protect Journalists sees modest spike in donations after Streep speech, receiving about 500 donations Sunday night, well above the average handful — Courtney Radsch was just sitting down to watch the Golden Globes when Meryl Streep came on. — Radsch, a fan of Streep's …
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Dana Eisenberg / Mediaite:
Meryl Streep at Golden Globes blasts Trump for mocking disabled reporter and calls for support of The Committee to Protect Journalists — Meryl Streep was honored with a lifetime achievement award at tonight's Golden Globes, and she used her speech to call out Donald Trump and defend Hollywood, foreigners, and the press.
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Breitbart News hires WSJ's John Carney to lead finance and economics section that is set to launch soon after the 20th January presidential inauguration — In a bid to expand its influence in the era of Donald Trump, Breitbart News, the crusading populist-right website that was an early champion …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Jared Kushner to sell The New York Observer to family trust, his lawyers say; Joseph Meyer, chairman and CEO, to take over as publisher — Editor says election coverage was a ‘disgrace’ — Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner said Monday that he will resign from all of his professional roles …
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Trump Officially Names Son-In-Law Jared Kushner As Senior White House Adviser — However, the appointment could come up against anti-nepotism laws and renew focus on potential conflicts of interest. — President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will serve as a senior adviser …
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Alexei Oreskovic / Business Insider:
SEC filing: Marissa Mayer, Yahoo co-founder David Filo, and four others to leave Yahoo board after Verizon sale; remaining business to be renamed Altaba Inc. — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will resign from the company's board of directors after its planned $4.8 billion merger with Verizon is completed …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Facebook to start testing mid-roll video ad format, share 55% of the revenue with video publishers, same as YouTube — Mark Zuckerberg has been building a video empire. Time to turn it into a business. — Facebook wants to show more ads to people who watch its videos …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Axios' Mike Allen denies endorsing Breitbart after social media backlash, says his optimistic words about the current moment in journalism were twisted — There's nothing that delights the folks at Breitbart News more than headlines glorifying Breitbart News.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Jim VandeHei, CEO of soon-to-launch Axios, on crafting news for other platforms, developing a subscription business, hiring non-journalists, more — “I look at Axios as a rolling R&D lab,” Jim VandeHei, chairman and CEO of the new venture, said in a Q&A.
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
BBC Trust confirms closure of website and app for Radio One news bulletin Newsbeat — The BBC Trust today amended its Radio One service licence allowing it to close news bulletin service Newsbeat's associated website and app. — The closure was first announced in May last year …
ESPN:
NFL TV viewership dropped an average of 8 percent this season — Broadcasters of NFL games saw television viewership drop by an average of 8 percent for the 2016 regular season, as a typical game was watched by 1.4 million fewer people than last season (16.5 million versus 17.9 million), according to league data obtained by ESPN.
Heidi Groover / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper:
23 people will leave Seattle Times in combination of buyouts, layoffs, voluntary departures, as the paper faces falling ad revenue and restructures its newsroom — Some senior staffers have taken buyouts while young employees are likely to face layoffs in coming weeks.
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