Mediagazer: The BBC teams up with University College London to research the future of digital media (Andrii Degeler/The Next Web)

7:55 AM ET, November 21, 2012

Top News:

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 — Three Palestinian journalists were killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip yesterday. — The Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV reported that two of its cameramen, Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, died in hospital from severe burns after a missile hit …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Gaza Media Coverage Reports Strikes In Real Time, Without Restrictions — NEW YORK — NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin said it's a “completely different dynamic” reporting from Gaza now than it was four years ago, given both the unrestricted access for journalists and widespread use of social media.

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, BuzzFeed, TVNewser, Capital New York, The Nation and Poynter

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

Wall Street Journal:

News Corp., CBS in Talks Over Merging Book Businesses — 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: Quartz, Business Insider, Melville House Books, The New York Observer, Deadline.com, Bookseller news, paidContent, The Huffington Post and New York Times

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.

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

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 …

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

Discussion: CNET

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

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Pubs That Go Digital-Only Face New Requirements — Newsweek might have been the most high-profile magazine to go digital-only, but it's probably not the last. And so the Alliance for Audited Media—as the Audit Bureau of Circulations has renamed itself—has endorsed new guidelines for print publications that go digital-only.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Sacramento Bee and NetNewsCheck Latest

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