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8:05 PM ET, December 23, 2019

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Summer Said / Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia sentences five people to death and convicts three others to 24 years in prison for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi  —  The dissident journalist was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul  —  Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death and convicted six others for the murder …
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
The New York Times says it does not think corrections to its 1619 Project are warranted, in response to a letter from five historians that requested corrections  —  Five historians recently wrote to the New York Times Magazine, asking the architects of its comprehensive 1619 Project …
New York Times:
Amid a crisis in local news, eight journalists who left newsrooms in 2019 reflect on the stories left in their notebooks  —  Amid a crisis in local news, eight journalists who left newsrooms in 2019 reflect on the stories left in their notebooks.  Photographers who also lost their jobs captured them on their former beats.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bytedance is considering setting up a global headquarters for TikTok outside of China, as part of its effort to shake off its Chinese image  —  Singapore, London and Dublin are among cities being considered; no U.S. city made shortlist  —  Bytedance Inc. is considering setting …
James Bennet / The New York Times Company:
NYT announces Quartz founding editor and co-CEO Kevin Delaney is joining NYT's Opinion for six months to help lead the department's “next big project”  —  Kevin, the founding editor and co-C.E.O. of Quartz, is joining Opinion for six months to help lead the department's next big project.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Journalism too often treats the center as inherently sensible, despite eventual solutions regularly being outside the boundaries of what either party favored  —  The media has a bigger problem than liberal bias.  —  John F. Harris is about as mainstream as the mainstream media gets.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Dish ups the price of both of Sling TV's packages, Orange and Blue, by $5 to $30 each per month, while adding Fox News, MSNBC, and HLN to Sling Blue  —  The cheap days of Sling TV are over  —  The cheap days of Sling TV are over.  Dish's internet TV service is raising the price …
Wall Street Journal:
An analysis of millions of articles from the 2010s shows how big stories evolved, via patterns of words linked with news terms like “Facebook” or “immigration”  —  A lot can happen in a decade — to people, companies and countries.  In the 2010s, reputations were burnished and destroyed.
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable:
Discussion: CNBC, Reuters, The Drum and Engadget
Pablo Boczkowski / Nieman Lab:
If Trump gets reelected, November 4, 2020 will be a day of reckoning for mainstream journalism and beliefs about the media's political power in setting agendas  —  “These notions of media theory are premised on an information-centric view of the power of communication.
 
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
NYT and WSJ alumni to launch DealPro, a Boston-based weekly magazine focused on in-depth and investigative stories about China's economic rise, in mid-February
Errin Haines Whack / Nieman Lab:
2020 prediction: with racism on the ballot in 2020, race and gender will drive political news, even if women still get covered as a special interest group
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Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

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