Mediagazer: YouTube may be getting ready to launch its music subscription (Janko Roettgers/Gigaom)

3:45 PM ET, November 27, 2013

Top News:

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 …

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: New York Times, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Kirk LaPointe's …, @abeaujon and The Huffington Post

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: Poynter, Committee to Protect …, Hullabaloo, NPR and Guardian

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.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Huffington Post, AAN, @samkirkla, @kgosztola, The Week, @kuowjohnr, @poynter and National Review

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

YouTube may be getting ready to launch its music subscription — There have long been rumors that Google is planning to launch a separate music subscription service for YouTube, and it looks like those plans are now starting to come together: The folks over at Android Police found a number …

Discussion: Android Police, VideoInk, Electronista and Social News Daily

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

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.

Discussion: blog.goldieblox.com, Mashable, The Wrap, Gigaom, Forbes, ArtsBeat, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, @mikeisaac, @pkafka and @craigsilverman

Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
Goldieblox and the Three MCs

Erik Wemple:

NYT design boss: ‘fairly unanimous consensus’ to run breast pic — The photo on the front of today's New York Times, depicting a woman showing more breast than commonly bared in newspaper photos, kicked up a great deal of reaction this morning on social media. … A commenter in the adjoining story complained:

Discussion: New York Times, New York Magazine, The Public Editor's Journal, JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, @zimbalist and Gawker

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.

Discussion: Mediaite, Business Insider and @cjr

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: @tppnews1 and The Verge

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, @clockwerks and @amyoleary

Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

Incoming Time Warner Cable CEO could exit with $50 mln-plus after deal — (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc, being circled by potential buyers, could pay out more than $50 million to incoming Chief Executive Robert Marcus as part of his contract, if the company is bought while he is CEO and he gets replaced.

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