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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Internet pioneers and other tech luminaries including Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and Steve Wozniak ask the FCC to cancel its vote repealing Net Neutrality — A group of early internet and computing pioneers have called on the Senate's FCC oversight committee to censure next week's net neutrality vote.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon signs five-year deal with the NFL to livestream games to any mobile, web, and connected-TV device across the US — Telco gains expanded multiplatform digital rights, loses status as exclusive U.S. wireless carrier for live NFL games — Verizon will no longer be the exclusive U.S. mobile carrier …
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TechCrunch:
Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; sources say deal was for about $400M, and Snap and Spotify also expressed interest — After we broke the story last week that Apple was acquiring London-based music and image recognition service Shazam, Apple confirmed the news today.
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Jonathan Randles / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Gawker employees have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $500K to purchase the blog out of bankruptcy and relaunch it — If successful, relaunched Gawker.com would be funded by readers, operated through a nonprofit foundation — Former employees of Gawker.com's defunct publisher …
Martha Bebinger / WBUR:
The allegations made against On Point host Tom Ashbrook include claims of unwanted touching, sexual talk, and bullying younger female and male colleagues — Play — Tirades directed at young women in the studio. Name calling and belittling critiques of show ideas during meetings.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Netflix receives nine Golden Globe nominations, its most ever, for The Crown, Stranger Things, more, while Hulu and Amazon receive just three each — The Golden Globe nominations are out, and once again HBO and Netflix have come out on top as the most-nominated networks.
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The Wrap, The Wrap, Eater, Vox, Forbes, CinemaBlend, Rolling Stone and Engadget
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Bloomberg announces the name of its new 24-hour news network on Twitter, launching December 18, is TicToc by Bloomberg — Bloomberg Media announced the name of its built-for-Twitter 24-hour news network — TicToc by Bloomberg — which is set to go live next Monday, Dec. 18.
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VideoInk and Mediawire, Thanks:@amandabcowie
BuzzFeed:
YouTubers posting disturbing videos about kids earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from ads, say they chased a trend that YouTube's algorithm drove — According to estimates, accounts shut down for potential child endangerment content could've been netting over $500,000 a month.
David Westphal / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at some of the largest investigative reporting nonprofits in the US focused on local and state news: VTDigger, inewsource, and others — FOR TWO YEARS starting in 2009, Anne Galloway worked 80 to 90 hours a week reporting on the Vermont legislature, without pay …
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Profile of Sydney-based quarterly Mekong Review, which publishes essays and investigations about culture and politics of SE Asia where free speech is threatened — HONG KONG — At Monument Books, a bookstore in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the magazine racks are stacked with copies of The Economist …
Washington Post:
Inside Fusion GPS, a corporate research firm led by former journalists that produced the Trump dossier and investigates politicians, Silicon Valley, Wall Street — Fusion GPS bills itself as a corporate research firm, but in many ways it operates with the secrecy of a spy agency.
Jane Coaston / Vox:
Far-right media soothes Moore voters' cognitive dissonance by providing an alternate version of reality, delegitimizing what's outside their political bubble — “I don't think I ever intended to basically say, 'Everything that mainstream news says is not true.'"
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Haley Britzky / Axios:
How Donald Trump's rhetoric on “fake news” has been embraced by many political leaders around the world — After President Trump tweeted that CNN International “is still a major source of (Fake) news,” Libyan media published an article questioning the authenticity of a major CNN report on the Libyan slave trade.
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