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12:00 PM ET, November 14, 2013

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Pew Research Journalism Project:
News Use Across Social Media Platforms  —  How do different social networking websites stack up when it comes to news?  How many people engage with news across multiple social sites?  And what are their news consumption habits on traditional platforms?  As part of an ongoing examination …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
About a fifth of Facebook and Twitter users often get news from newspapers, too  —  21 percent of Facebook users and 18 percent of Twitter users tell the Pew Research Journalism Project they get news “often” from print newspapers.  The organization continues to look at how social media users get news.
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits  —  Google has won a resounding victory in its eight-year copyright battle with the Authors Guild over the search giant's controversial decision to scan more than 20 million library and make the available on the internet.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Google prevails over authors in digital books case  —  (Reuters) - Google Inc on Thursday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by authors who accused it of digitally copying millions of books for an online library without permission.  —  U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan accepted Google's argument …
Discussion: Ars Technica and Talking New Media
Jack Shafer:
Your ‘exclusive’ interview isn't  —  The journalistic lexicon abounds with terms designed to keep reporters' and editors' egos as plump, firm and purple as a ripe eggplant.  If a dowdy news account needs dressing up, they rush to wardrobe to wrap it in the “special report” designation.
Audrey Cooper / San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Chronicle's managing editor: We're increasing investment in food coverage  —  Managing Editor's response to New York Times  —  It's impossible to separate food, restaurants and the culture of farm-to-table living from the San Francisco experience.
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New York Times:
Stand-Alone Food Section Faces Demise in Bay Area
Matt Crawford / SF Station:
New York Times, Chronicle Feud Over Report About SF Food Coverage
Discussion: KQED News Fix
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Arianna Huffington Talks International Expansion  —  The Huffington Post has been on a whirlwind of international expansion.  Today, 40 percent of its audience comes from outside the U.S., and according to its namesake president and editor in chief, more than half of the world's GDP has its own HuffPost.
Discussion: The Wrap
Susan Glasser / Politico:
Introducing POLITICO Magazine  —  Welcome to Politico Magazine!  For nearly seven years, Politico has aimed to drive the Washington conversation with an urgency, smarts and digital-era metabolism that has helped reinvent political news.  On the day I am writing this, an organization …
Discussion: Poynter and NetNewsCheck Latest
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
Roku, AOL To Co-Launch News Channel  —  Consumers' shifting content viewing habits continues to make strange bedfellows.  On Thursday, AOL and set-top-box start-up Roku are expected to co-launch a news channel.  —  Produced by AOL's editorial team, the video channel will reside …
Discussion: Gigaom, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:
BuzzFeed's all-positive books section  —  It doesn't make sense to pledge positivity if your aim is to provide readers with critics' takes on new books.  It makes more sense if your aim is to cultivate a thriving community.  —  Last week, BuzzFeed's new books editor, Isaac Fitzgerald …
Discussion: @abeaujon
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Upworthy: Clickbait With a Conscience  —  The latest viral wizard of the Web matches smart technology and lily-white earnestness to market “stuff that matters” online, and the Gates Foundation is buying.  —  The first blockbuster hit came from an unlikely source: Irish talk radio.
Discussion: @tomgara
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Rap Genius and Sony/ATV Reveal Licensing Deal (Exclusive)  —  Rap Genius, the online lyric site with financial backing from Silicon Valley heavyweights, has signed its first licensing deal.  Billboard has learned the Brooklyn-based startup has a licensing agreement with Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
Discussion: AllThingsD and Slate
Bruce Cheadle / Canadian Press:
Chrystia Freeland grilled about outsourcing of Toronto media jobs to India  —  Former employee of Reuters calls her ‘hypocritical’ for championing middle class  —  Chrystia Freeland and Linda McQuaig on Rogers TV debate on Nov. 13, 2013.  —  OTTAWA — A high-profile federal Liberal candidate campaigning …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Pivot's Evan Shapiro: The TV Exec Who Wants to Slow Down America  —  Like a lot of people, Evan Shapiro wants our society to slow down.  But unlike most people, he runs a TV network.  Which might make him seem like an unlikely advocate for more reflection.
Arif Durrani / Media Week:
Trinity Mirror posts 68% lift in digital audience but financial losses continue  —  Trinity Mirror, the national and regional publisher, has reported a 68% lift in its digital audience following its One Trinity Mirror transformation strategy last year, but circulation and advertising revenues continue to fall in its last four months.
Discussion: Guardian
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Parade Slowly Marches Into the Digital Era  —  The self-styled “most widely read magazine” in the country has a traffic problem.  —  Parade, a 72-year-old publication that's inserted in about 700 newspapers across the country, boasts a circulation of 32 million.  But guaranteed circulation is one thing.
American Press Institute:
Understanding the rise of sponsored content  —  In recent years news publishers have grappled with an uncomfortable realization: The traditional revenue streams of display advertising and reader subscriptions may not be sufficient to support them in a digital age.
Jason Lynch / Quartz:
Why Amazon, bucking the Netflix strategy, won't release its original series all at once  —  The battle for streaming supremacy heats up again on Friday Nov. 15, when Amazon launches its first original series, Alpha House, the story of four senators who rent a house together in Washington …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Verizon Stocks Up on “TV Everywhere” Tech by Buying upLynk  —  Verizon has been talking to Intel about buying the chipmaker's Web TV business.  But in the meantime, it is buying other digital TV tech: The telco says it has purchased upLynk, a startup that makes it easier to stream video on the Web.
Discussion: PR Newswire and VideoNuze Analysis
Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
Why does Google Play's Tim Quirk show such disdain for musicians?  —  Musician turned digital music executive hits the wrong note with artists and composers over rights and royalties  —  Speaking at a recent Future of Music Coalition conference, Google Play executive Tim Quirk exclaimed: “You cannot devalue music - it's impossible.”
Jeremy Fleming / EurActiv:
TV, film industry pledge easier cross-border copyright  —  European consumers should find it easier to access television and films from their home state when travelling through the continent if pledges made by the audiovisual sector to the Commission yesterday (13 November) are honoured.
DJ Pangburn / Motherboard:
A Lesson Plan to Teach 6th Graders to Stop Pirating, Love Copyright Law  —  The Center for Copyright Information (CCI), a pro-copyright group backed by Hollywood, the recording industry, and various large internet service providers, is currently drafting an elementary school curriculum …
Suzanne Franks / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Data from the U.K.: The gender imbalance in newspapers is real, and both vertical and horizontal  —  Journalism is changing, and so is the role of women in the workplace.  But the two are not always evolving in harmony.  Women substantially outnumber men in journalism training and enter the profession in …
Discussion: @coagreform and The Conversation
Associated Press:
Library of Congress to preserve public broadcasting archive with recordings from 120 stations  —  WASHINGTON — A collection of public broadcast recordings from radio and television dating to the 1950s will be preserved at the Library of Congress.  —  Under a project funded by the Corporation …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Pulitzer winner Bennett leaving Bloomberg  —  Amanda Bennett, former executive editor for projects and investigations at Bloomberg News, is leaving the news organization.  —  She had been editor at large for several months after Bob Blau took over the projects and investigations team this summer.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
 
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