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5:50 AM ET, November 27, 2013

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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Pack your bags, Alec!  MSNBC fires Baldwin over anti-gay slurs  —  Alec Baldwin has been fired by MSNBC, sources say.  The rage-aholic's weekly show, “Up Late With Alec Baldwin,” has been canceled because of the actor's foul-mouthed rant at a photographer he called a nasty name.  “The decision has been made.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CBS News' Lara Logan Taking Leave Of Absence Over Discredited ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report  —  NEW YORK — Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of '"60 Minutes," informed staff Tuesday that Lara Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, would be taking a leave of absence following …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Lara Logan No Longer Hosting CPJ Dinner
Discussion: Politico, @mlcalderone and Mother Jones
Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
Goldieblox and the Three MCs  —  Everyone thinks they know how copyright works, and everyone's usually wrong.  Who can blame them?  It's often counterintuitive, inconsistent, and riddled with grey areas and edge cases.  —  And no area of copyright law is more confusing than fair use …
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Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Girls Against Boys: What's Wrong With the (Latest) Beastie Boys Lawsuit
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
New York Times CEO says Chinese language site under review  —  (Reuters) - New York Times Co Chief Executive Officer Mark Thompson said the publisher is going to keep all its money losing operations under review - including those in China - as he seeks to negotiate the newspaper's increasing shift towards a digital landscape.
Discussion: The Next Web
David George-Cosh / Canada Real Time:
Rogers-NHL Deal a Blow to Canada's Public Broadcaster  —  Privacy Policy » Search Canada Real Time1  —  Rogers Communications Inc.'s blockbuster 5.2 billion Canadian dollar ($4.93 billion) media-rights deal with the National Hockey League is a coup for Rogers, but a setback …
Discussion: Forbes
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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:   Rogers Reaches $4.9 Billion NHL Deal for Broadcasting Rights
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Q&A: The Guardian's Gabriel Dance on new tools for story and cultivating interactive journalism  —  Gabriel Dance thinks a lot about tools.  Specifically, what tools does he have at his disposal, and what tools can he and others on the Guardian U.S. interactive team build to help them better tell a story?
Discussion: @amyoleary
Daily Mail:
The Daily Mail Australia to launch online in 2014  —  Sydney, Australia: Mark Britt, CEO, Mi9 and Martin Clarke, Publisher, MailOnline, today announced that Mi9 and dmg media, parent company of MailOnline, have agreed to form a joint venture to bring the Daily Mail website to Australia …
John McDuling / Quartz:
Why everyone wants to buy America's least liked cable company  —  Time Warner Cable is America's least liked cable provider, and its second least liked internet service provider, in terms of customer satisfaction.  It's bearing the brunt of the cord-cutting phenomenon, hemorrhaging customers faster …
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
The two worst revelations in Time Inc. filing  —  Time Inc. is being spun out of Time Warner.  It isn't going to be pretty. … Fingers crossed.  That was my pose early last Friday morning, following a NY Post report that Time Warner was about to file IPO documents for Time Inc. …
Discussion: @alexrkonrad
Steve Outing / Media Disruptus:
Paywalls in my back yard: A forecast for newspaper business models  —  It's now been many years that I've been writing and opining about “paywalls” for news websites.  It's not a subject that's going away, although living in the Boulder-Denver, Colorado, media market, I haven't had to deal with paywalls myself.
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Scottish independence: BBC would be replaced by new broadcaster  —  • SNP proposes Scottish Broadcasting Service as a joint venture  —  • Shows such as EastEnders, Doctor Who, Strictly still available  —  Read the SNP independence white paper chapter on culture, communications and digital
Jim Romenesko:
David Skok is named Boston Globe Digital Adviser to the Editor  —  David Skok, director of Globalnews.ca and co-author of “Breaking News: Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism,” is joining the Boston Globe as digital adviser to the editor.  —  David Skok
Discussion: @pottsmark and @niemanreports
 
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online:
Creative Commons licenses updated to address accidental violations, European copyright law
Discussion: Creative Commons and @theatlantic
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Hacked Off warns local paper publishers not to join new regulator
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Error in WHO report sparks media storm; wrongly said half of Greek HIV cases “self-inflicted”
Reuters:
Two Swedish journalists missing in Syria
Discussion: presstv.ir, CNN and The Huffington Post
Jina Moore / Columbia Journalism Review:
Hearing (new) voices  —  An innovative financing model may change the face of public radio
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
CNN shares Instagram images from the ground on new Scenes platform
Discussion: @niemanlab