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5:15 PM ET, December 6, 2013

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 Top News: 
Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Delays Spectrum Auction Until 2015  —  Auction Intended to Encourage TV Stations to Sell Airwaves to Wireless Carriers  —  WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said Friday it has delayed a planned reverse auction of TV airwaves until 2015, a decision that reflects …
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Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog:
The Path to a Successful Incentive Auction  —  Since my arrival at the Commission a month ago, I have spent more time working on the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction than any other single issue.  I am confident in the Commission's ability to make the appropriate policy decisions.
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Chair Delays Wireless Spectrum Auction to 2015
Discussion: Wireless Week, Reuters and Bloomberg
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 …
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.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Yes, the Vikings should have gone for it on 4th down, and a New York Times robot knows why  —  Second-guessing a play call is one of the great joys of being a football fan.  Because you know — sitting there on the couch, never having played a single minute of professional football …
Discussion: @niemanlab
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Credulous press for a report on abuse of female journalists  —  Reporters overlook statistical problems in passing on eye-popping numbers  —  Rule of thumb, journalists: If the “study” you're writing about is based on a SurveyMonkey.com survey, it probably deserves a wee bit of skepticism.
Discussion: @cjr
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Online survey of female journalists and sexual harassment shows self-selection bias problem
Discussion: Slate
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable's Next CEO Ready to Sell If Price Is Right  —  Rob Marcus has a message for Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) shareholders: I'm the right guy to decide whether to sell the company.  —  The 48-year-old chief operating officer is replacing Glenn Britt as Time Warner Cable's chief executive officer …
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Wall Street Journal:   Pursuit of Time Warner Cable Takes a Toll on Its Bonds
Ryan Glasspiegel / JimRomenesko.com:
Charles Davis: VICE let me call out the hypocrisy of liberal media when no one else would  —  By RYAN GLASSPIEGEL  —  Earlier this week, Charles Davis wrote a piece for VICE in which he shamed left-wing media outlets for failing to live up to their stated ideals in their practices of exploiting unpaid and poorly paid interns.
Discussion: @romenesko, Thanks:@sportsrapport
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News pushes into mobile with new redesign  —  For many people, Google News is the page of choice for a quick sweep of the headlines.  Today, with an eye towards the increasing number of readers coming to Google News on mobile devices, Google released a new look for the more than 10 year old site.
Discussion: Google News Blog and Poynter
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Meaning of China's Crackdown on the Foreign Press  —  The Chinese government is threatening to expel nearly two dozen foreign correspondents, working for the Times and Bloomberg News, in retaliation for investigations that exposed the private wealth of Chinese leaders.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News UK is reborn by putting a digital smile on Wapping's face  —  News UK may only be a change of name from News International but the whole “feel” of the organisation is somehow different.  —  Perhaps it's the digital age that has transformed the outfit from rugged to smooth, from frantic to measured, from wayward to way to go.
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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.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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.
Discussion: @hblodget
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Upworthy Insider:
What Actually Makes Things Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind. (Hint: It's Not Headlines Like This.)
RADAR:
Victory For Gwyneth Paltrow!  ‘Vanity Fair’ Takedown Piece Turns ‘Soft’  —  Can Gwyneth Paltrow claim victory over Vanity Fair?  —  RadarOnline.com has learned that the famed magazine, which had planned a scathing take-down piece on the actress, is making it much softer.
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 …
Discussion: @iwantmedia and FishbowlNY
Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
Advance Publications considers 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, is studying making changes …
Discussion: Poynter and Talking New Media
 
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David Ottalini / The Philip Merril College …:
The New American Journalism Review: Student-Driven With a Focus On Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Discussion: Poynter and AJR.org
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Al Jazeera America launches on Time Warner Cable today
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
When White House Photos Are ‘Visual Press Releases’
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Brian Stelter: CNN's offer was ‘Irresistible’
Discussion: 10,000 Words and FishbowlNY
Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:
Buttry Sees Progress for Digital First's ‘New Model’ for Community News
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Former Times legal chief suspended by tribunal after paper deceived High Court to expose Nightjack police blogger
Michael Rondon / Folio:
Digital Ad Dollars Spike, But Still a Small Part of Total Revenue in B-to-B
Shaunacy Ferro / Co.Design:
New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data
 Earlier Picks: 
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Rolling Stone Plans a Standalone Website to Cover Country Music
Discussion: Poynter, hypebot and @davidmross, Thanks:@msebastian
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to Introduce Free Mobile Music Service
Liz Bury / Guardian:
Quarter of Kindle ebook sales in US are for indie publishers
Discussion: Daily Mail
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
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Aereo to launch in Baltimore, still a dozen cities short of goal
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

 
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