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10:00 AM ET, January 4, 2019

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Three of Axios' top technical executives, including its CTO plus multiple design employees, have left in the last six months over tensions about product mission  —  - Axios has lost its top three technical executives, all in the past six months.  — They were heads of technology, product …
New York Times:
Los Angeles sues the company behind the Weather Channel app, which is owned by IBM, for slyly using location data for commercial purposes  —  The Weather Channel app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers …
Kendall Baker / Axios:
Axios has acquired Sports Internet, a newsletter run by ex-ESPN staffer and Bleacher Report writer Kendall Baker, and will relaunch it as Axios Sports on Monday  —  Dearest readers, I'm beyond excited to announce that Sports Internet has been acquired by Axios and will be relaunching as Axios Sports on Monday.
Discussion: @kenvogel and @axios
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
AT&T files trademark applications for “Verge TV”, but The Verge notes its name is trademarked and highlights its existing YouTube channel  —  Nah, we'll keep it  —  Last month, AT&T filed several trademark applications for “Verge TV,” which suggests the company may be working …
Marcus Baram / Fast Company:
In her new book, Jill Abramson says the NYT's publisher drafted a letter “all but apologizing” to the Chinese govt for a Pulitzer-winning story on corruption  —  In her new book Merchants of Truth, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson claims that the news outlet's publisher drafted …
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Former NYT Editor Jill Abramson says Fox News host Howard Kurtz took her new book “totally out of context” and attempted to “Foxify” it
Jason Guerrasio / Business Insider:
Memo: MoviePass Product Manager Eric Jeng resigns from the company, citing its response to allegations of inappropriate behavior  —  - On Wednesday, MoviePass product manager Eric Jeng resigned after one year at the company.  — In a 704-word letter sent to the entire company …
Todd VanDerWerff / Vox:
As publications cut back on culture writing or eliminate it entirely, a look at why cultural criticism helps us understand our society better  —  Cultural criticism is journalism.  And in an era when fewer outlets support it, we need more of it, not less  —  I've been thinking about The Hateful Eight a lot lately.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The UK's i newspaper signs syndication deal with The Economist and will run two articles from the magazine a week  —  The i newspaper will run selected articles from The Economist, both in print and online, as part of a new deal between the two news titles.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
How The Weekly Standard met its end, amid pressure from parent company execs and subscribers, as some editors plot an attempt to revive it  —  The Weekly Standard was killed last month, an act that had both a clear culprit and a muddy forensic trail.  For twenty-three years …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
London-based Synamedia launches Credentials Sharing Insight, which scores users of pay TV and streaming video services on likelihood they're sharing passwords  —  Still using your ex-roommates cable credentials to watch “Game of Thrones?”  That may soon be getting a lot harder …
Discussion: The A.V. Club
 
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Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post:
LinkedIn restores Chinese access to the profile of US-based activist Zhou Fengsuo after blocking it a day earlier, says the profile was blocked in error
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