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11:50 AM ET, November 27, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Norman Pearlstine Defends Lara Logan, Suggests Editor More To Blame For Benghazi Story  —  NEW YORK — On Tuesday night, the Committee to Protect Journalists honored four individuals with the organization's 2013 International Press Freedom Awards: Egypt's Bassem Youssef, Turkey's Nedim ener …
Discussion: NPR, Poynter, Mediaite and The Raw Story
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ and Benghazi: Five hard realities  —  Today, CBS News distributed a summary of findings from an internal investigation into the discredited Oct. 27 “60 Minutes” report on Benghazi.  The investigation was conducted by Al Ortiz, executive director of standards and practices at CBS News …
Discussion: @abeaujon and The Huffington Post
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CBS News' Lara Logan Taking Leave Of Absence Over Discredited ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report
The Huffington Post:
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’  —  WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations …
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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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
GoldieBlox Goes “Girls"-Less.  Did It Back Down From the Beastie Boys?  (Update: Yes)  —  GoldieBlox is a girls'-toy startup that got a lot of attention for its YouTube ad that parodied the Beastie Boys' “Girls.”  —  Then it got even more attention when it preemptively sued the band for the right to use the song.
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online:
Creative Commons licenses updated to address accidental violations, European copyright law
Jen Carlson / Gothamist:
Alec Baldwin Talks About His MSNBC Show's Sudden Cancellation  —  Following a confrontation with paparazzi outside of his New York City home—allegedly calling a paparazzo a “c**ksucking fag”— MSNBC suspended Alec Baldwin's show, and now they have cancelled it.
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Pack your bags, Alec! MSNBC fires Baldwin over anti-gay slurs
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
McClatchy updates policy on handout photos: 'it's important to take a stance'  —  “The editors of McClatchy newspapers have agreed not to publish photography issued by the White House,” McClatchy Vice President for News/Washington Editor Anders Gyllenhaal told staffers in an email Tuesday night.
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: Capital New York and The Next Web
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.
Discussion: @niemanlab
Capital New York:
At Press Freedom Awards, big names and little bits of controversy  —  In the wake of her recently discredited Benghazi segment, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan dropped out of her hosting gig for the 2013 International Press Freedom Awards at the 11th hour.
Ben Fritz / Washington Wire:
Hollywood Presses Anti-Piracy Trade Measures With Obama  —  LOS ANGELES-Entertainment executives meeting privately with President Barack Obama Tuesday asked him to ensure copyright protections are enshrined in new trade agreements and help facilitate better relations between Silicon Valley and Hollywood …
Discussion: The Verge and @tppnews1
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: @haddadme and @amyoleary
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
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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