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8:55 AM ET, December 9, 2013

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David Carr / New York Times:
Where Freedom of the Press Is Muffled  —  In China on Thursday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke plainly about the role of a free press in a democratic society.  —  “Innovation thrives where people breathe freely, speak freely, are able to challenge orthodoxy, where newspapers …
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Robert Mahoney / Committee to Protect Journalists:
A chill over British press
Discussion: The New Yorker Blog and TechCrunch
Andy Serwer / Fortune:
Inside the mind of Jonah Peretti  —  The visionary media entrepreneur, diviner of virality and one-time enfant terrible (he turns 40 on New Year's Day) explains the mechanics of how information spreads, his personal reading habits, and why it's dangerous to be a slave to the numbers.
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Brian Stelter Officially Debuts as CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ Host  —  The hour included a brief segment looking at the conflict of interest of CNN's Chris Cuomo interviewing his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  —  Brian Stelter  —  Though he's appeared as a guest host since August …
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
How To Use The Media To Sell A Company  —  “Time Warner Cable's Next CEO Ready to Sell If Price Is Right,” blares the headline of a Bloomberg story published Friday morning.  The headline isn't as informative it sounds, however: a basic operating principle of mergers and acquisitions reporting …
Discussion: @peterlauria3 and @jimpoco
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Afraid of Free Speech, on Many Fronts: PEN, Google, China, Goliath  —  Free societies depend on free-swinging critiques, even those that are “unbalanced” or “go too far.”  —  On Wednesday afternoon, as previewed earlier, I got to serve as moderator for a panel of four very eminent writers …
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Trinity Mirror launches ‘socially-shareable data journalism’ site  —  Ampp3d, Trinity Mirror's new project for “socially-shareable data journalism”, launches today to “explore both the day's news agenda and a range of topics that people care passionately about”, according to the site.
Discussion: @martinbelam
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New Yorker, Washington Post Passed On Seymour Hersh Syria Report  —  NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh accused the Obama administration Sunday of having “cherry-picked intelligence” regarding the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Syria that served as evidence for an argument …
Edward Moyer / CNET:
Saving the Net from the surveillance state: Glenn Greenwald speaks up (Q&A)  —  Big Brother may be watching you.  But Glenn Greenwald is watching Big Brother.  —  That's not a bad take on how the 46-year-old constitutional-law attorney turned crusading journalist turned thorn in the side of the NSA might describe his mission.
Discussion: @wblau and Forbes
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The not-so-quaint charm of the email newsletter  —  In spite of today's obsession with social networks, the email newsletter remains a potent vector for the dissemination of news and for driving traffic back to websites.  It comes with one condition, though: reintroducing a human touch.
Discussion: @qz
Richard Parker / Columbia Journalism Review:
At Jake Silverstein's “amped up” Texas Monthly, water policy, immigration, and BBQ are all cover stories  —  At Jake Silverstein's “amped up” Texas Monthly, water policy, immigration, and BBQ are all cover stories  —  AUSTIN, TX — From his posh office on the 17th floor, Jake Silverstein …
Dan Caterinicchia / Poynter:
College websites seeing mobile migration, but not all are ready  —  Website traffic at the University of Oregon's Daily Emerald was less than 1 percent mobile in 2010.  This year, it's 39 percent and growing.  And while visits on desktops have more than doubled to 951,000 since 2010 …
Discussion: @doughaddix and @elanazak
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico, Hill Reporters Get Rare Access For Hillary Clinton Book  —  NEW YORK — When CNN recently canceled a Hillary Clinton documentary, Charles Ferguson, the film's director, lashed out at the former secretary of state's aides.  —  Ferguson suggested that longtime Clinton protector Philippe Reines …
 
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Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:
Of the 7,776 languages in use in the offline world, fewer than five percent exist online
Margaret Looney / IJNet:
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Discussion: Knight Lab
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Reuters:
Once piracy havens, China's Internet video websites turn police
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Remnick: ‘New Yorker’ mulled biweekly route, once
Discussion: bookforum.com and @nbj914
Jack Shafer:
What's worse than sponsored content? The FTC regulating it
Discussion: @bdeskin
Mohana Ravindranath / Washington Post:
New White House plan reaffirms commitment to open data
Kathy Chu / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Media Firms Stymied in China
Discussion: Talking Biz News and New Yorker