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3:15 AM ET, December 4, 2011

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Quietly (Finally) Launches Self-Serve Ads  —  It's still just in test mode, and only open to a handful of advertisers.  But those who can use it can now buy ads directly via Twitter, using a credit card and a Web browser, without ever having to talk to a human being.
Chris Crum / WebProNews:
Yahoo Gets Rid of 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Launches Yahoo Voices  —  Presumably a late reaction to Panda  —  Follow @WebProNews  —  Yahoo has now decided to follow Demand Media's lead by deleting 75,000 articles from Associated Content, and is even going so far …
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Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Yahoo Shuts Down 4 Entertainment Blogs (Updated)  —  Four Yahoo entertainment sites are going to the blogosphere in the sky.  —  The portal is letting The Projector and The Set flicker out and die, the movie and television blogs acknowledged on Twitter Friday.
Discussion: Gawker
Craig Silverman / CJR:
The Truth about Public Untruths  —  Are journalists and others equipped to beat back the lies?  —  What's to be done with lying liars and the lies they tell journalists and the public?  —  This is a topic of serious discussion in journalism circles, perhaps now more than ever.
Discussion: @stevebuttry and @stevebuttry
Kelly Knaub / The Daily Beast:
NYPD Gives Fox News Special Protection  —  Fox News's Midtown Manhattan studios get 24/7 protection from the NYPD, stiff security the other news networks say they've never enjoyed.  —  When Occupy Wall Street protesters marched past media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's posh 5th Avenue penthouse during the …
Discussion: Poynter
Paul Sandle / Reuters:
Old media executives too busy, private for Twitter  —  (Reuters) - Twitter gives an instant snapshot of the buzz around television shows, computer game launches and even new ads, but many media executives are simply too busy to tweet or engage with the microblogging service very much themselves.
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
The erosion in the paid media pyramid  —  Since the invention of media (the book, the record, the movie...), there's been a pyramid of value and pricing delivered by those that create it:  —  Starting from the bottom:  —  Free content is delivered to anyone who is willing to consume it …
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Shirky: Many news orgs must choose between ‘radical restructure and outright collapse’  —  In response to an essay by Dean Starkman, NYU professor Clay Shirky has reiterated his belief that newspaper organizations are being disrupted at a rate that requires radical reinvention.
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Tina Brown Enjoys Some Good News for a Change  —  “The Beast is on a roar!” tweeted Tina Brown on Thursday afternoon, reporting the best traffic month ever for her website and a welcome victory for her recently gutted editorial team.  The exclamation-laden tweet comes less than two weeks …
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
USA Today Turns to Private Ad Exchange in Attempt to Boost Digital Revenue  —  The aim of the private marketplace will be to move most unsold online ad inventory in a more controlled environment.  —  Nine months after its parent company started selling online ads for some of its newspapers …
Discussion: Reuters
DPA / Haaretz:
Report: Syria bans iPhone to cover up crackdown on anti-Assad protests  —  Statement issued by Customs Department of the Syrian Finance Ministry says, ‘The authorities warn anyone against using the iPhone in Syria’; at least six demonstrators reported killed in Syria on Friday.
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
ABC Shake-Up: Vicki Dummer's New Times Square Studios Replaces Daytime Chief Brian Frons  —  Brian Frons, longtime president of ABC Daytime, will leave the company when his contract ends in January, and his departure will usher in a shakeup in the way that ABC's daytime roster will be handled, the network announced on Friday.
 
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
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Erik Sass / MediaPost:
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Fox News cries foul after being left off Facebook's most-shared articles list
Discussion: Erik Wemple, Fox News and Mediaite
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
European E-Book Sales Hampered by Tax Structure
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
NBC faces higher fees as it kicks off football talks
Discussion: rbr.com
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Gary Knell defends public funding in first day as NPR CEO
Discussion: The Huffington Post and NPR
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Tensions Between Police And Media Increase Nationwide Amid Occupy Protests
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised

Gavin Anderegg / anderegg.ca:
Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames

Morgan Meaker / Wired:
A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist turned EU Parliament member, who says the EU's Big Tech regulation went too far, too fast
 
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