Mediagazer: 6-year-old reportedly killed in Israeli airstrike strike on building housing AFP #Gaza offices. Latest: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthori ty/ 9692735/Gaza-Israel-conflict-live.html? asdf ... #gaza #telaviv (Joel Gunter/@joelmgunter)

8:45 AM ET, November 21, 2012

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Joel Gunter / @joelmgunter:

6-year-old reportedly killed in Israeli airstrike strike on building housing AFP #Gaza offices. Latest: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthori ty/ 9692735/Gaza-Israel-conflict-live.html? asdf ... #gaza #telaviv

Telegraph:

Chilling live tweets as windows shatter around journalists in Gaza City — Twitter made for terrifying reading on Tuesday night as international journalists covering the Gaza conflict live tweeted while air strikes rocked the very buildings they were sheltering in.

Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Three journalists killed in Gaza

Allison Hoffman / Tablet Mag: The ‘Kids’ Behind IDF's Media

Wall Street Journal:

News Corp. Eyes Book Publisher — News Corp ., owner of HarperCollins Publishers, has expressed interest to CBS Corp. about acquiring its Simon & Schuster book business, according to people familiar with the talks. — The people described the talks as preliminary and cautioned that a deal isn't imminent.

Discussion: Business Insider, The New York Observer, paidContent and The Huffington Post

Quartz:

This is what the publishing industry will look like if the Big Six become the Big Four — News Corp.'s HarperCollins and CBS's Simon & Schuster are discussing a possible merger, according to The Wall Street Journal (paywall), in another move toward consolidation in the book publishing industry.

Discussion: Melville House Books, Deadline.com and Bookseller news

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Another Big YouTube Bet: Time Warner Leads $40 Million Maker Studios Round — Here comes more money for YouTube videos. But these dollars don't come from YouTube: Time Warner is leading a big round of financing for Maker Studios, a startup that specializes in creating and distributing clips for the video giant.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Court hears plea from defendant to bar Croydon Advertiser journalist from covering case — A London magistrates court is reportedly considering submissions to ban a local journalist from covering a trial because his “heavy reporting” of the defendant's previous cases “intimidates” witness.

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

Joe Scarborough (Sort Of) Apologizes To The NY Times' Nate Silver — Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough took to Politico to offer his (semi) apology to New York Times' polling expert — and the 2012′s election other big winner — Nate Silver. Silver, Scarborough writes …

Discussion: Politico

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Joe Scarborough Faces Nate Silver On ‘Morning Joe’ After Election Bet

Discussion: Poynter

Sara Morrison / CJR:

Martin Baron's plans for WaPo — Will he bring the Globe's double-site strategy to the Post? — Boston Globe editor Martin Baron will be The Washington Post's new executive editor come January 2013, replacing Marcus Brauchli. Three days after his first visit to WaPo's newsroom to meet …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Pot calls kettle black in New York Times piece on Washington Post business troubles

Discussion: CNET

Harro ten Wolde / Reuters:

Germany clears way for Murdoch to raise SkyD stake — (Reuters) - German financial authorities cleared the way for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to own a majority in German pay-TV company Sky Deutschland. — Sky Deutschland said on Tuesday it could still carry forward its losses …

Discussion: Bloomberg and Hollywood Reporter

Bloomberg:
News Corp. to Acquire 49% of YES Network at $3 Billion Value

Discussion: Media Decoder, Deadline.com, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter

Andrii Degeler / The Next Web:

The BBC teams up with University College London to research the future of digital media — BBC Research & Development has announced a strategic partnership with University College London (UCL), aimed at bringing together researchers from both sides to work on the challenges faced by digital media.

Jill Goldsmith / Variety:

Jeff Bewkes inks 5-year pact with Time Warner — Extension keeps CEO at helm of conglom through 2017 — Time Warner said Tuesday it has reupped with chairman-CEO Jeff Bewkes, inking a five year contract extension that will keep him at the media giant through 2017.

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Media & Entertainment, Media Decoder, TVNewser, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

How The Conservative Media Lost The Election — The plan was to unmask Obama. It didn't work. — President Obama's decisive reelection has promised the conservative new media four more years of fodder, but it's also left some of its more earnest participants with a gnawing question: What went wrong?

Discussion: The American Conservative

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Social Curation Site Storify Gets A Search- And Media-Centric Redesign — Storify is launching a redesigned website that puts search front and center. — The site — which allows you to create stories out of online content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram …

Discussion: Groundswell and The Next Web

Lauren Indvik / Mashable: Storify Aims to Become Portal for Content Discovery

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

@NYTOnIt author Benjamin Kabak ‘zero percent interested in picking a fight’ with NYT — New York lawyer Benjamin Kabak's @NYTOnIt Twitter account was reinstated Tuesday morning after a complaint from The New York Times took it offline overnight. — “I'm zero percent interested in picking …

Discussion: City Room, Guardian and New York Magazine