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9:00 PM ET, November 14, 2012

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Is it time for the New York Times to embrace sponsored stories?  —  As news publishers confront a troubled online ad market, many of them are turning to “native advertising” which lets marketers create content that resembles a website's natural content.  The New York Times is resisting …
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Jack Marshall / Digiday:
The Mobile Banner: A Dog That Won't Hunt
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Nxtblog
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
News companies see a financial future in brand-sponsored digital content
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:   Ads That Get More Love Than the Stories Around Them? Pulse Has Them
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:   New York Times Staffers Vote To Ratify New Deal
Media Decoder:
Spotify Attracts Investments From Coca-Cola and Fidelity  —  Coca-Cola is becoming a minority investor in Spotify, as part of a new round of financing that will bring in $100 million and value the streaming music service at about $3 billion.  —  Spotify has completed the financing round …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Spotify Closes $3 Billion Funding Round  —  Spotify has closed its latest funding round, which values the company at around $3 billion, according to a person familiar with the transaction.  The Wall Street Journal had previously reported that Goldman Sachs would lead a group …
Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
How To Wage War On The Internet  —  The Israel Defense Forces just launched a bloody assault on the Palestinian militant group Hamas.  And it launched the assault on Twitter.  The advent of CNN and its live coverage of first Persian Gulf War may have been the first real taste …
Discussion: AllThingsD, Guardian and GigaOM
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Jon Mitchell / ReadWrite:
Heads Up: The IDF Is Live-Blogging Its Attack On Hamas [Video]  —  We've never seen anything quite like this.  The verified social media accounts of the Israeli Defense Forces are providing live updates on a concerted military effort against Hamas.  Using the hashtag #PillarOfDefense …
David Simon:
Stray penises and politicos  —  I can remember the specific moment when I swore off the sex lives of the famous as journalistic currency.  It was the case of a national sportscaster — I won't name him, but, alas, most of those old enough will remember the name, which is regrettable — whose sex life had suddenly become the media chow.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Warren Buffett closes former Media General paper in Virginia  —  The Manassas (Va.) News & Messenger will stop printing at the end of 2012, Steve Jordan reports.  Berkshire Hathaway bought the paper from Media General when it purchased most of the chain's other newspapers in May.
Discussion: Reuters
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Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:
Buffett company to close Va. newspaper, cut 105 jobs
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kickstarter-backed journalism startup Matter publishes its first story  —  Matter, the science and technology journalism startup that raised over $140,000 from 2,566 backers on Kickstarter, is launching with its first article Wednesday.  GigaOM readers are already quite familiar …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and kottke.org
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:   New longform science journalism site ‘Matter’ launches today
Daniel Miller / Hollywood Reporter:
Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and 'Moneyball'-ing Box Office  —  The FiveThirtyEight blogger tells THR he's been approached by agents and producers, already has done work for a studio and isn't sure he wants to write a book about the election: “I prefer to go broader.”
Discussion: The Corsair and Los Angeles Times
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Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:
Nate Silver Thinks Voting Is for Pundits
Discussion: Deadspin and Betabeat
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
A Mormon Reporter On The Romney Bus  —  On the night of the South Carolina Republican primary in January, I sat near the front of a dark campaign press bus, and listened to reporters talk about Mitt Romney's underwear.  —  Earlier in the day, one of them had happened upon the candidate …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Don Nash Becomes Executive Producer Of ‘Today’  —  A longtime “Today” veteran has become the newest executive producer of the show, NBC News announced Wednesday.  Don Nash, currently a senior broadcast producer on the troubled morning show, will take the day-to-day reins from Jim Bell on December 1st.
Discussion: Reuters and TVNewser
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:   Producer Leaves ‘Today’ Show to Direct Olympics for NBC Universal
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google TV update adds voice control, taps into Knowledge Graph  —  Google announced the next big update for Google TV Wednesday, bringing advanced voice control, a new programming guide app and all kinds of smarts derived from Google's Knowledge Graph to the platform.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
After Flipboard and Tumblr, Chernin bets on YouTube video boom
Discussion: Business Wire and Media Week
NBCUniversal:
The NBCUniversal News Group Adds iVillage To Its Portfolio  —  iVillage Joins NBC News Digital, Creating New Opportunities For Both Consumers And Advertisers In the Women's Marketplace  —  NBCUniversal News Group announced today that iVillage, one of the largest online communities for women …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Marty Baron stories dwell on cuts at The Washington Post  —  Boston Globe Editor Marty Baron is The Washington Post's incoming executive editor.  Profiles and accounts of his ascendance all praise his journalism career, then rue the cuts that presumably face him.
Discussion: Washington Post and Erik Wemple
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Bloomberg:
Pearson CFO Freestone Doesn't Rule Out Sale of Financial Times  —  Pearson Plc (PSON) said today it wouldn't rule out a sale of the Financial Times as Chief Financial Officer Robin Freestone told investors that the company may eventually re-examine its ownership of the newspaper.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Media Decoder:
News Corporation Said to Be Close to Acquiring Stake in YES Network  —  News Corporation is close to acquiring a stake in the YES Network, a New York-based cable channel that broadcasts Yankees baseball and Nets basketball games, among other regional sports, a person briefed on the discussions said Wednesday.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Delve Launches Enterprise Newsreader For Focused, Relevant And Collaborative Reading  —  RSS readers, Instapaper, Pocket, Flipboard, etc., all provide ways for consumers to gather, collect, and share news.  But each is aimed at the general user, and while definitely usable in a business setting …
 
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Felix Salmon:
The FT backs down on paywalled blogs
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Apples and oranges on Google and publishers
Discussion: The Wall Blog
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
NBC's Vivian Schiller: social media has made live TV essential again
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The Extremely Accurate History of the Internet: The Onion's new satirical documentary lands on Yahoo
Discussion: WebProNews
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Andrew Rice named contributing editor at ‘New York’ magazine
 Earlier Picks: 
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Why did Pete Wells review Guy Fieri's restaurant as a series of questions?
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time to go for Huey  —  Editor-in-chief likely to step down for Nelson
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Capital New York
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Corbis Acquires Crowd-Sourced Photo Agency Demotix, After Its Move Into Apps
Discussion: Demotix, GeekWire and PetaPixel
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Following on Microsoft's $300 million investment, Barnes & Noble releases Windows 8 NOOK app
Discussion: PC Magazine, ReadWrite and GeekWire
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Universal Music Group nearing its digital tipping point
Steven Rosenbaum / Forbes:
The Cost of Cutting Cable
 

 
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