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11:50 AM ET, December 6, 2012

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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Tim Cook hints that Apple plans to redefine the television set  —  Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has poured gasoline on the growing fire of speculation that his company plans to build a full-fledged television set in the near future, with comments disparaging current television sets as outdated pieces of technology.
John Koblin / Deadspin:
Why Is An ESPN Vice President Spreading Rumors That I'm Straight?  —  “I don't know your personal life,” ESPN vice president and executive editor John Walsh told me, on the phone.  “I wouldn't comment on anyone's personal life.”  —  Earlier today, on Twitter, two different journalism students …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
John Walsh asserts a love triangle in Deadspin coverage of ESPN
Discussion: Daily Download
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Victim's family 'couldn't sleep' after seeing ‘traumatic’ NY Post subway photo  —  The family of Ki-Suck Han, the man immortalized in a front-page New York Post photo of his impending death on a subway track, spoke publicly on Wednesday about the impact of the image.  —  The New York Times reports:
John Nichols / The Nation:
FCC Must Not Give Rupert Murdoch More Control Over US Media  —  We now know that top players with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel plotted with General David Petraeus about the prospect of using the cable network as a platform for launching a “Petraeus for President” campaign.
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Brian Lowry / Chicago Tribune:   Media-ownership rules need new look
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Tina Brown promotes three at NewsBeast while staff awaits word of layoffs  —  Tina Brown announced three promotions this morning at the Newsweek Daily Beast Company, which is preparing to replace the Newsweek print edition with a digital-only title called Newsweek Global.
Michael Holden / Reuters:
Top UK publicist arrested in BBC sex abuse inquiry  —  Max Clifford, Britain's most high-profile celebrity publicist, was arrested for alleged sex crimes on Thursday by a special police unit set up in the wake of an abuse scandal involving a former BBC TV star, his lawyer said.
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon and Google both launch Brazilian ebookstores  —  Both Amazon and Google launched digital bookstores in Brazil this week.  The companies join Kobo in an attempt to get a piece of Brazil's nascent but quickly growing ebook market.  Eighteen percent of Brazilian adults with internet access …
Steven Jacobs / Street Fight:
Patch Adds COO as Leadership Change Continues  —  AOL's Patch network of hyperlocal news sites has made yet another significant change at the top, naming former Westwood One operations head Steve Kalin to the newly created position of president and COO.  Kalin will take responsibility …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and FishbowlNY
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
The Times Should Have a Reporter at the Bradley Manning Hearing  —  In failing to send its own reporter to cover the fascinating and important pretrial testimony of Bradley Manning, The New York Times missed the boat.  —  Over the past several days, as compelling testimony over the harsh treatment …
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David Dishneau / Associated Press:   Bradley Manning Hearing On Confinement Resumes
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Nominated For Grammy Award  —  The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences revealed on Wednesday evening that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has been nominated for a Grammy Award.  —  For her audiobook recording of Drift: The Unmooring Of American Military Power …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
New editor for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism  —  The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BiJ) has a new managing editor - a former head of the Sunday Times's insight team, Christopher Hird.  —  He has been appointed by the BiJ's trustees in succession to Iain Overton …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks appear at Old Bailey  —  David Cameron's former comms director and ex-News International head appear on charges of payments to officials  —  David Cameron's former communications director, Andy Coulson, and the ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks …
Discussion: The Scotsman
Andrew Belonsky / T Magazine:
Oh Snap |  Instagram in Print  —  With the dawn of the Instagram age, the time it takes to create and distribute a photograph — what sometimes used to take days — has shrunk to, well, an instant.  We're now awash in a torrent of split-second events.  Here to impose some permanence …
 
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Jessica Plautz / Investigative News Network:
Investigative News Network Grows to More Than 70 Member Organizations
Matt Thompson / Poynter:
Why journalists should explore the business side of news
Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
Julian Assange Bypasses Mainstream To Sell Book
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work?
Discussion: Melville House Books
Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
KT McFarland Pushes Back Against Ailes, Petraeus Story: ‘I Know Now That Roger Was Joking’
Discussion: Politico
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Aereo CEO: Our cheap TV wouldn't exist without cloud computing
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
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Hearst Corporation:
Hearst Corporation's Steven R. Swartz promoted to president
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Deals for Apple Custom Radio Service ‘Nowhere Near to Being Completed’
Discussion: Business Insider and Electronista
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Obama: Reporters At Business Roundtable Event ‘Got Enough ... To Spin A Story’
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Netflix says it won't raise prices after Disney deal
Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:
The science of content subscriptions: Understanding lifetime customer value and price power
Discussion: GigaOM
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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