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11:15 PM ET, November 17, 2013

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Jay Rosen joins Pierre Omidyar's news venture  —  Out of the press box and onto the field  —  I have a personal announcement.  —  I am joining up with the new venture in news that Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill are creating, along with Liliana Segura …
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Edward Moyer / CNET:
NSA foe Greenwald whips his new media venture into shape  —  Greenwald gears up for some “adversarial journalism.”  One of the profession's main missions, he's said, is to “provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.”  Here, he testifies on surveillance in front of an investigative committee of the Brazilian senate.
Discussion: Guardian and @tomgara
New York Times:
Reporter on Unpublished Bloomberg Article Is Suspended  —  BEIJING — A reporter for Bloomberg News who worked on an unpublished article about China that employees for the company said had been killed for political reasons by top Bloomberg editors was suspended last week by managers.
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Andrew Sullivan expands The Daily Dish with monthly subscription-only magazine called Deep Dish  —  Blogger-entrepreneur Andrew Sullivan — who left The Daily Beast earlier this year to launch his own reader-supported site and has since raised over $800,000 from his supporters …
Thanks:@mathewi
Tyler Hamilton / INMA:
News media fail to report on their own environmental impact  —  Media companies barely register on the list of the globe's most sustainable corporations — not because they don't deserve to be there, but because few disclose data on their energy consumption, emissions, water use, and waste production.
emptywheel:
The Second Page, Glenn Greenwald Edition  —  On the first page of a WaPo story on an Eric Holder speech, it says this.  Holder indicated that the Justice Department is not planning to prosecute former Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who received documents from Snowden …
Discussion: @dangillmor
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Justice is reviewing criminal cases that used surveillance evidence gathered under FISA
Discussion: Techdirt
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Dish, Media General Reach Agreement, Ending 6-Week Blackout  —  Dish Network and Media General have reached a retransmission agreement that will end a six-week blackout of Media General stations on Dish in 17 markets.  —  The agreement ends a spat that included Dish asking the Federal Communications Commission to intervene.
William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg's News Division to Lay Off About 50 People  —  Bloomberg LP's news division will lay off about 50 people or about 2% of its newsroom, according to people familiar with the company's plans, the latest financial news and data provider to make job reductions.
Discussion: @kantrowitz and @pkafka
Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
How journalism schools are preparing students for the technical and legal challenges ahead  —  How journalism schools are preparing students for the technical and legal challenges ahead  —  Back in the dark ages of January, 2012, my colleague Alysia Santo wrote a thoughtful piece …
Randall Palmer / Reuters:
Canada asks regulator to study unbundling of TV channels  —  (Reuters) - The Canadian government instructed the country's television regulator on Thursday to study the impact on consumers of unbundling cable- and satellite-television packages and to report back by April.
Jack Shafer:
Does anyone still work at the ‘New York Times’?  —  Recent defections of talent from the New York Times — Nate Silver, David Pogue, Jeff Zeleny, Richard Berke, Brian Stelter, Matt Bai, et al. — have unjelled the media firmament, according to Politico media columnist Dylan Byers.
Richard Prince / mije.org:
Media Missed It: Winning Candidate Served Time for Murder  —  “We've been hearing the warnings for years now,” Vincent Duffy, chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, wrote Thursday.  “At journalism conferences, in the trades, and amongst ourselves we've heard some variation of this …
Discussion: @lilsarg and @jaketapper
 
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