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12:15 PM ET, January 22, 2019

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Variety:
Netflix receives its first Oscar best-picture nomination for Alfonso Cuaron's “Roma”  —  Oscar nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif.  —  Academy president John Bailey will be joined by …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Guardian newspaper receives its first ever Oscar nomination, for a 25-minute documentary about a young man navigating race and family identity  —  A Guardian-commissioned documentary about a young man dealing with questions of race and family identity is up for an Oscar in a first for the newsbrand.
Discussion: Variety and The Guardian
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter suspends account that helped spread video of confrontation between a Native American and teens wearing MAGA hats, after CNN expresses doubt about owner  —  New York (CNN Business)Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that helped spread a controversial encounter between …
New York Post:
Sources: Hearst eyes some of Tribune Publishing's smaller papers as the Donerail Group tries to engineer a Tribune acquisition to sell off individual papers  —  Magazine empire Hearst is angling to buy a chunk of Tribune Publishing, the newspaper giant that owns the Chicago Tribune …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Vox Media is acquiring The Coral Project, an open-source publishing platform housed within the Mozilla Foundation  —  Vox Media is acquiring The Coral Project, an open-source publishing platform that is housed within the Mozilla Foundation.  Deal terms have not been disclosed.
Discussion: Vox Media, @rkellett and @anotherhelen
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Maer Roshan, who worked as deputy editor of New York Magazine in the 1990s, has been named editor-in-chief of Los Angeles magazine  —  The veteran editor and Radar founder is taking over Los Angeles magazine, one of the remaining regional titles with any juice left.
Discussion: @dylanbyers
Steven Overly / Politico:
Sources: Netflix is in advanced talks to join the Motion Picture Association of America and would be the first internet-based service to do so if it does  —  Netflix is in advanced talks to join the Motion Picture Association of America as the streaming video giant rapidly expands the number …
Eric Bellman / Wall Street Journal:
The rise of mobile video in India is requiring YouTube and others to innovate to better serve Indian users, who average 40+ hours/month of video from data plans  —  Explosion of video is transforming India's media landscape, and companies are scrambling to feed demand
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News host Bret Baier and his family are recovering after a “major car crash” where their car flipped over on icy roads in Montana  —  The accident occurred while Baier and his family were returning from a ski trip in Montana.  —  Fox News anchor Bret Baier is recovering …
Associated Press:
Associated Press pays tribute to freelance photojournalist Mohamed Ben Khalifa who was killed in Libya on Saturday, survived by wife and 7-month old daughter  —  CAIRO (AP) — Mohamed Ben Khalifa's work as a photographer and video journalist captured the tragedy of refugee corpses washing ashore on Libya's coastline.
 
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Speaking in Munich, Facebook's CEO Sheryl Sandberg outlined five ways the company is tackling fake news and says it is blocking 1M+ accounts every day
Discussion: Fast Company and @raju
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Reuters:
WhatsApp is now globally limiting the forwarding of messages to five recipients, in a bid to fight “misinformation and rumors”
 

 
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K and bans BloomTech from lending for 10 years over deceiving students on loans

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Europol, law enforcement in 19 countries, Microsoft, and others disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation and make 37 arrests

 
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