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12:55 AM ET, January 7, 2016

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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Netflix launches in 130 additional countries, now available in 190 countries worldwide, excluding China, Crimea, North Korea, and Syria, stock up 9%  —  At CES, Netflix Announces Worldwide Expansion of Streaming Service  —  Netflix went live with its streaming television service …
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
As Twitter weighs a longer character count, users reiterate preference for an edit function  —  Edit Tweets?  Users Debate a Missing Twitter Feature  —  Never mind longer tweets, many Twitter users are saying.  What about an editing function?  —  After reports on Tuesday that Twitter …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Twitter's “Beyond 140” feature is a plan to host content inside its walled garden, instead of linking to blogs and other websites  —  Twitter Isn't Raising the Character Limit.  It's Becoming a Walled Garden.  —  Tweeters are freaking out—again—about another report that Twitter …
Biz Carson / Business Insider:
Sources: Yahoo to lay off at least 10%, or 1,000+ employees including some in media division, as early as this month  —  Yahoo is prepping to lay off 10% or more of its workforce  —  Major layoffs will be coming to Yahoo as part of its planned reorganization to get its business back on track.
Discussion: @alex and Associated Press
Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
As problems persist with new distributor, Boston Globe rehires old distributor to handle some newspaper routes  —  Globe splits deliveries between two companies  —  After more than a week of confounding problems getting newspapers to subscribers, The Boston Globe has turned …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
US consumers bought 241.4M albums last year, down 6% from 2014, streamed 317.2B songs, nearly double that of 2014  —  Adele Album Resists the Streaming Trend in Music Sales  —  For the last few years, the prevailing theme in the recorded music business has been that CD and download sales …
Edward Vielmetti / Vacuum weblog:
MLive Media Group in Michigan cuts 29 content positions across state, primarily in management and newspaper production  —  Cuts coming to MLive, 2016 edition  —  ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, January 6, 2016.  Columbia Journalism Review's Anna Clark broke the news of cuts at MLive to journalist jobs there, in this post on Twitter.
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Major League Baseball to Stream Live in China Via LeTV  —  Major League Baseball games will be shown live in China beginning later this month.  —  MLB and Le Sports, a unit of fast-moving Chinese online group LeTV (aka Leshi Internet Information & Technology), struck a three-year deal covering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.
Associated Press:
Egypt to try 6 reporters for allegedly defaming minister  —  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian prosecutor has referred six local journalists to trial for allegedly spreading “false news” that defamed the justice minister.  —  Prosecutor Fathy Bayoumi said Wednesday that the six were sent to court …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Las Vegas Review-Journal names Glenn Cook interim editor  —  The Las Vegas Review-Journal has named an interim newsroom leader as it searches for someone to fill the top editorial slot on a permanent basis.  —  Employees at the embattled Nevada newspaper announced on Twitter Wednesday that Glenn Cook …
Discussion: @joepompeo, bookforum.com and @iandon
Amy X. Wang / Quartz:
Report: total global media spending to rise 5% each year for the next five years, print newspapers and magazines to decline as digital takes over  —  Books and newspapers will do just fine in 2016.  Magazines?  Not so much  —  The reign of the consumer magazine—glossy, beautiful …
 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

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

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns
 
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