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4:10 PM ET, January 9, 2017

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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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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 …
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 …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The term “fake news” has lost its meaning, now being used as a catch-all insult to peddle agendas, so we should retire it and call a lie a lie and a hoax a hoax  —  When Jim DeMint wanted to dis a TV interviewer's suggestion that Obamacare has merits as well as flaws …
Alex Heath / Business Insider:
Martin Shkreli suspended from Twitter for harassing freelance journalist Lauren Duca, after Duca tweeted screenshots to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey  —  Twitter suspended Martin Shkreli's account on Sunday following his trolling of freelance journalist Lauren Duca.
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Obama White House veterans, including Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor, launch Crooked Media, with a new podcast called Pod Save America, partly to counter Trump  —  With Donald Trump about to enter the White House, they just don't feel like “keepin' it 1600” anymore.
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.
Pagan Kennedy / New York Times:
About 400 out of 1,000+ organizations contacted by Sleeping Giants' social media campaign have vowed to remove Breitbart News from future digital ad buys  —  One day in late November, an earth and environmental science professor named Nathan Phillips visited Breitbart News for the first time.
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
The Washington Post is creating an eight-person rapid response investigations team to supplement its current investigations unit  —  The Washington Post is creating a rapid-response investigative team that will work closely with all departments in the newsroom, particularly the National staff over the next year or so.
Fortune:
Amazon Studios picked up its first Golden Globes movie award, for Manchester by the Sea  —  Amazon Studios, the six-year-old film-and-television production arm of retail giant Amazon Inc., took home two Golden Globes Sunday night out of 11 nominations total.
Discussion: Forbes, Variety, Mediaite and EW.com
The Guardian:
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan disputes US intelligence claims linking the state-backed news source to Russian efforts to delegitimize the US election  —  A US intelligence report claimed RT's ‘negative’ election coverage of Hillary Clinton was deliberate, which Margarita Simonyan called a ‘sad commentary’
Discussion: @samthielman
 
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Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
The Onion's studio division signs three-film development deal with Lionsgate and production company Serious Business
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Agence France-Presse:
German media, politicians warn against spike in distorted or fake news after Breitbart story alleges crowd chanting ""Allahu Akbar" set church on fire
Max Fisher / New York Times:
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

 
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