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10:55 AM ET, November 21, 2012

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Associated Press:
Egypt protesters firebomb Al-Jazeera Cairo office  —  300 protesters storm building of satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera, hit studio with firebombs; ‘They accuse our network of being biased,’ reporter says  —  Egyptian protesters firebombed one of the offices of satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera …
Discussion: Daily News Egypt
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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.
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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.
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.
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
The Oatmeal sued over trademark by “Oatmeal Studios”  —  It's only been a few months since webcomic Matthew Inman, operating under the name The Oatmeal, was able to put his bizarre legal clash with competing humor website FunnyJunk to rest.  Now Inman is about to be back in court.
Guardian:
News Corp exposed to growing legal threat following charges for tabloid duo  —  Charges for Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson raise prospect that News Corp could be prosecuted under US anti-bribery laws  —  The new round of criminal charges brought in the UK against former senior News International editors …
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Harro ten Wolde / Reuters:
Germany clears way for Murdoch to raise SkyD stake
Discussion: Bloomberg and Hollywood Reporter
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 start-up that specializes in creating and distributing clips for the video giant.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Former Apple exec leads $512k funding round in content monetization startup Cleeng  —  Cleeng, the Dutch startup focused on allowing publishers to charge for parts of their content as an alternative to a complete paywall, has announced a €400,000 ($511,600) funding round led by former Apple VP …
Discussion: paidContent
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 …
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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 …
Ami Sedghi / Guardian:
Newsnight: how have viewing figures been affected by the BBC child abuse scandal?  —  Newsnight hasn't been short of publicity over the last seven weeks.  Most of it negative.  As we all now know, the show aired on the 2nd November which wrongly linked the former Conservative party treasurer …
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?
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: Poynter, The Next Web and Groundswell
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:   Storify Aims to Become Portal for Content Discovery
 
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Andrii Degeler / The Next Web:
The BBC teams up with University College London to research the future of digital media
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Half of Internet users unsure of content legality
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John Hopewell / Variety:
Disney Movies on Demand launches in Spain
Jim Romenesko:
Newspaper owner tells critic: No reviews of films featuring strong women
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
@NYTOnIt author Benjamin Kabak ‘zero percent interested in picking a fight’ with NYT