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10:30 AM ET, December 6, 2013

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Bill Carter / New York Times:
A Settlement Between Fox News and a Former Top Executive?  Perhaps  —  The Fox News Channel has long been described as insular and buttoned up, a reputation that has been reaffirmed in recent days over the question of whether it has reached a settlement with Brian Lewis …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and @tomgara
Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:
Gawker's Zimmerman gets his own corner  —  Gawker's editors are cooking up a plan to give Neetzan Zimmerman, Gawker's in-house savant of viral material, his own subvertical on the site.  And when he does, his editor, John Cook, knows what he would like to name it.
Discussion: FishbowlNY, @carr2n and @mathewi
Upworthy Insider:
What Actually Makes Things Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind.  (Hint: It's Not Headlines Like This.)  —  By now it's fairly well known that we care a lot about headlines here at Upworthy.  We write at least 25 of them for each post.  We test them rigorously.  Sometimes, we even make up a word to catch your eye.
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
The World's Most Controversial Viral Site Posted A Great Defense Of Itself  —  Upworthy, a site dedicated to viral content, has become the newest punching bag for reporters from both new and old media.  —  It's rare to see those two agree, but they do about Upworthy.
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to Introduce Free Mobile Music Service  —  Free Version of Streaming Service Was Previously Only Available on Desktop and Laptops  —  Spotify AB is planning a free, ad-supported version of its streaming-music service on mobile devices, according to people familiar with the matter …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
AOL editor-in-chief to exit  —  More turmoil seems to be engulfing AOL.  —  The latest is that AOL editor in chief Cyndi Stivers is said to be exiting.  She only joined in May.  —  One source said it is a “slow fire” which suggests it won't go public until next year.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Layoffs at AOL: 20 slips, mostly homepage editors, writers
Discussion: Capital New York and FishbowlNY
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Interview with Facebook News Feed Manager Over Content Changes  —  In 2011, Google changed the way it ranked websites, in an effort to punish spammers and “content farms” that showed up high in search results but delivered crummy pages.  —  Google's “Panda” changes had giant ripple effects throughout …
Discussion: @myurow and @pkafka
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Brian Stelter: CNN's offer was ‘Irresistible’  —  “I would not leave the Times for a television job” doesn't occupy the same pantheon as “Read my lips, no new taxes” or “I never had sex with that woman,” but it still presents a bit of sticky wicket for Brian Stelter, who debuts Sunday as host of CNN's ‘Reliable Sources.’
Discussion: FishbowlNY and SocialTimes
Wall Street Journal:
FCC Unlikely to Bless a Comcast-TWC Deal: Regulator  —  Commissioner Says Current Administration Taking Tough Antitrust Stance … Any effort by Comcast Corp. to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc. would face significant hurdles in Washington, according to a Federal Communications Commission official …
Discussion: @maureenmfarrell
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Wall Street Journal:   Pursuit of Time Warner Cable Takes a Toll on Its Bonds
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Rolling Stone Plans a Standalone Website to Cover Country Music  —  Magazine is Opening an Office in Nashville  —  Rolling Stone plans to introduce a new website called Rolling Stone Country in the second quarter of 2014.  —  The new standalone site's aim is to cover the country music scene …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Billionaire Mansueto is said to have interest in Forbes Media  —  Joe Mansueto, the mutli-billionaire founder of mutual-fund researcher Morningstar, is rumored to be looking at Forbes Media.  —  Reached via email, he declined to comment on Forbes.  —  He's no stranger to the publication …
Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
Advance Publications considering consolidation of New Jersey newspapers  —  Owners of Star-Ledger, NJ.com and sister newspapers studying possible consolidations  —  star-ledger-building-unions- closure.JPG  —  Advance Publications, owner of The Star-Ledger and NJ.com …
Discussion: Talking New Media
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
When White House Photos Are ‘Visual Press Releases’  —  For Doug Mills - the longtime White House photographer for The Times - what happened on Veterans Day was more than annoying.  It was wrong.  —  He and other Washington journalists had been hearing that the oldest World War II veteran alive …
Discussion: @sulliview
Jason Karaian / Reuters:
Twitter's new board member isn't the only one who rarely tweets  —  When Twitter announced the appointment of Marjorie Scardino as a board member, it did it, naturally, with a tweet.  —  But when the millions of people who follow Twitter's corporate account clicked through to Scardino's account …
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John McDuling / Quartz:
Twitter's first female director is also the first “old media” executive on the board
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Sun attracts 117,000 paying subscribers to its Sun+ digital service  —  News UK's tabloid erected a paywall in August and analysts reckon it needs at least 250,000 subscribers to break even  —  The Sun has attracted 117,000 paying subscribers to its £2-a-week digital service Sun+ since erecting …
Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:
Buttry Sees Progress for Digital First's ‘New Model’ for Community News  —  Steve Buttry, the digital transformation editor at Digital First Media, began his career in community newspapers more than 40 years ago in Columbus, Ohio - as a teenage carrier.  In the years since, he's been a reporter …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Former Times legal chief suspended by tribunal after paper deceived High Court to expose Nightjack police blogger  —  Former legal manager of The Times Alastair Brett has been suspended as a solicitor for six months over the paper's handling of the Nightjack case.
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Aereo to launch in Baltimore, still a dozen cities short of goal  —  Aereo, the online TV service that streams and records over-the-air shows in some parts of the US, said Thursday that it will launch in Baltimore on Dec. 16.  —  The company aimed to expand from its New York home base …
 
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Michael Rondon / Folio:
Digital Ad Dollars Spike, But Still a Small Part of Total Revenue in B-to-B
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Liz Bury / Guardian:
Quarter of Kindle ebook sales in US are for indie publishers
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Jeremy Scahill: Obama WH Doesn't Want Journalists, It Wants Fawning ‘State Media’ Like MSNBC
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
How Intel TV failed — pay attention, Google and Apple
Anthony Harrup / Wall Street Journal:
Mexico's America Movil, Televisa in Eye of Regulator
Discussion: Bloomberg and Reuters
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Partnering with comiXology, eBay launches marketplace for digital comics
Discussion: TeleRead
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Where in the world is BuzzFeed? Building foreign news around themes rather than geography
Discussion: @maxseddon and @niemanlab
 Earlier Picks: 
Arif Durrani / Media Week:
Financial Times ready for global transformation under Hughes
Evie Nagy / Fast Company:
Hearst's Troy Young Spills: This Is How You Make Money In Digital Media
Discussion: @karlheiselman
Tamara Baluja / J-Source:
Sun Media sells 74 Quebec weeklies for $75 million to TC Transcontinental
Discussion: Fagstein and TC Transcontinental
AFP:
Jihadists execute Iraqi cameraman in rebel-held Syria
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Radio Times website hits profit with traffic-boost fueled by investment in journalism
Discussion: Guardian