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7:40 PM ET, December 11, 2013

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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Apple TV gets live news programming with Bloomberg TV  —  Bloomberg TV launched an app on Apple TV devices Wednesday morning that includes a live feed of the cable networks financial news programming as well as access to on-demand videos.  The live feed is available without authentication …
Discussion: TechCrunch, @brianstelter and 9to5Mac
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Don Reisinger / CNET:
Apple TV gets content boost with Crackle, Watch ABC  —  Apple has been bulking up its content lineup on the Apple TV, and Wednesday, the company announced still more updates.  — Time Warner Cable to add another app platform: Apple TV?  — Apple TV a no-show, in any respect, at iPhone event
Discussion: The Verge and AllThingsD
Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:
YouTube Channels Crippled By Copyright Claims  —  Numerous video game-related YouTube personalities have spent the last day digging through piles of copyright claims suddenly filling their inboxes, claims that they say are messing with their ability to produce and profit from videos they post online.
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Colin Campbell / Polygon:
YouTube defends copyright crackdown
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tim McDonald / The Huffington Post:
Turning the Page on Anonymity: The Future of HuffPost Comments  —  Maintaining a civil environment for real conversation and community has always been key to The Huffington Post.  From day one, our comments were pre-moderated, and we invested in the most advanced moderation technology along with human moderators.
Comcast:
Comcast Plans to Add New Networks and Distributors to SEEiT Platform  —  ABC Entertainment Group, A+E Networks Group, AMC Networks Inc., Cablevision's Optimum TV, Charter Communications, Crown Media Family Networks, Discovery Communications, Fox Networks Group and Time Warner Cable are expected …
Discussion: Engadget, @awallenstein and @thefoaguy
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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Twitter becomes a better TV remote control as ABC, AMC, and Fox sign up for See It
Discussion: AdAge and Hollywood Reporter
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
The new television: How is NimbleTV different from Aereo?  —  This morning, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia was in Baltimore to mark the TV-over-the-Internet service's launch in the city, its 10th of 22 cities that it had planned to reach by the end of 2013.  (Kanojia now says the company will hit that goal by early 2014.)
Discussion: CNET and Wired
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Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
News sites could protect your privacy with encryption.  Here's why they probably won't.  —  “I've basically been trying to bribe media organizations at this point to turn on SSL,” jokes Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist and a senior policy analyst at the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.
Erik Wemple:
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to write Washington Post column  —  The journalistic bond between The Post and MSNBC just grew a bit stronger, as the paper's opinion section announced that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will be writing a monthly column.  “We expect that she will bring to Post readers the strong arguments …
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Time Criticized For Choosing Pope Francis Over Edward Snowden As Person Of The Year  —  Time chose the widely popular Pope Francis as its Person of the Year for 2013, sparking criticism from many who thought that the magazine's choice for runner-up, Edward Snowden, deserved the top prize.
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Vice Media Buys a Tech Company to Experiment With Content Distribution  —  ADVERTISING, journalism and technology continue to converge.  The latest example: Vice Media's acquisition of Carrot Creative, a digital agency that creates apps, websites and games for media companies and brands.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News organisations plead with Syrian rebels to stop abducting journalists  —  Thirteen news organisations, including The Guardian, have signed a letter calling on rebel groups in Syria to desist from kidnapping journalists and asking for the release of those currently being held hostage.
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Beastie Boys countersue as fair use fight over “Girls” song escalates  —  A copyright case between the Beastie Boys and toy maker GoldieBlox just got nastier: the rap group claims in a court filing that rewriting its “Girls” song for a video commercial does not count as “fair use,” …
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Gannett to Add USA Today to Local Papers  —  Gannett Company, one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, will try to expand its advertising and circulation revenue by inserting parts of its flagship newspaper, USA Today, into its local newspapers.  —  The company is expected to announce …
Discussion: USA Today, Gannett Blog and @susanpage
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Web Video Startup Ooyala Raises $43 Million  —  We saw a smattering of ad tech IPOs this year, and there are a bunch of companies that are supposedly lined up for next year.  —  Here's one you likely won't see going public in 2014 — at least not in the beginning of the year: Ooyala, the Web video startup.
Discussion: The Wrap, VentureBeat, Mashable and Variety
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Spotify brings free music to all devices (with caveats); snags Led Zeppelin  —  NEW YORK CITY — In its quest to entice more users, Spotify is finally bringing its free music service to more devices — though they won't all get the same free content.  —  A new ad-supported offering …
Santiago Lyon / New York Times:
Obama's Orwellian Image Control  —  THE Internet has been abuzz over the spectacle of President Obama and the prime ministers of Britain and Denmark snapping a photo of themselves — a “selfie,” to use the mot du jour — with a smartphone at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in South Africa on Tuesday.
Josh Horwitz / Tech in Asia:
Marcus Brauchli, once of WSJ and Washington Post, invests in Taipei startup The News Lens  —  The News Lens, the startup that wants to disrupt traditional media in Asia, just received its first round of funding  —  Mario Yang (left), co-founder and editor-in-chief at The News Lens …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Paywalls Boost Ad Rates for Some Magazines and Newspapers, OPA Study Finds  —  It's All About the Subscription Data (and What You Do with It)  —  Online paywalls are helping some newspaper and magazine websites increase the ad rates they charge, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association.
Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Jana Winter's victory  —  On Tuesday, The New York Court of Appeals overturned a subpoena that's been hanging over investigative reporter Jana Winter's head since March, and resolved a legal battle that lasted over a year.  The subpoena had called on Winter to appear in the James Holmes criminal trial …
Houston Chronicle:
Chronicle names managing editor  —  Award-winning editor Vernon Loeb, who most recently worked as metro editor of the Washington Post, has been named managing editor of the Houston Chronicle.  The announcement was made Wednesday by Hearst Newspapers President Mark Aldam and Nancy Barnes …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
 
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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Swedish journalists appear to use weakness in comment system to expose public figures
Discussion: ITworld.com, help.disqus.com and @nzkoz
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The U.K.'s Ampp3d thinks it knows why you want to click on charts, images, and memes
Discussion: Martin Belam and @niemanlab
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop Alum Tom Ascheim Named President of ABC Family
Discussion: The Wrap
Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
YouTube 2013 ad revenues estimated to jump more than 50% to $5.6bn
Discussion: Gigaom, Guardian, Variety, AdAge and Digits
Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed:
Growth Of Video Ads On Tablets, Cell Phones And Smart TVs Is Exploding
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Digital Magazine Startup Magzter Raises $10M To Fuel Global Growth
Discussion: Folio
Press Gazette:
Leaked tape reveals Pollard discussing exclusion of Savile review evidence about what Thompson knew
Discussion: Guardian and Guardian
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sign of the Time is written in red ink: $1.5B
Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Twitter TV ratings heading to Japan next year in move to attract more advertisers
Discussion: Softpedia News
Guardian:
BBC to axe more than half of its management boards
Discussion: Financial Times and @uk_radio
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Takes Netflix-Style Service for Old Movies to iPads
Discussion: @willmckinley