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8:30 AM ET, December 13, 2013

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Mary Ann Milbourn / Orange County Register:
Register owner to launch daily L.A. newspaper  —  Register Connect Customer Service eRegister Subscribe  —  The co-owner and publisher of the Orange County Register announced Thursday that the company will move broadly into Los Angeles County early next year and publish a new, seven-day-a-week newspaper, the Los Angeles Register.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Associated Press Held CIA Scoop For 3 Years At The Government's Request  —  NEW YORK — The Associated Press revealed Thursday that retired FBI agent Robert Levinson was working with the CIA at the time he went missing in Iran in 2007.  The AP's explosive report on Levinson's CIA ties contradicted …
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Paul Colford / The Definitive Source:
Why AP is publishing story about missing American tied to CIA  —  The Associated Press today is publishing an article about serious blunders at the Central Intelligence Agency and an effort to cover them up.  At the heart of the story is a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson …
James Bennet / The Atlantic Online:
Writers need a better term for “long-form”, which no longer signals quality  —  Against ‘Long-Form Journalism’  —  I have had it with long-form journalism.  By which I mean—don't get me wrong—I'm fed up with the term long-form itself, a label that the people who create …
Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
Educational Publisher's Charity, Accused of Seeking Profits, Will Pay Millions  —  The Pearson Foundation, the charitable arm of one of the nation's largest educational publishers, will pay $7.7 million to settle accusations that it repeatedly broke New York State law by assisting in for-profit ventures.
Jose Delreal / Politico:
White House press corps tees off on Jay Carney over access  —  A frustrated press corps sounded off Thursday against White House press secretary Jay Carney over lack of access to President Barack Obama.  —  Carney said the White House “is working” to address the concerns …
Discussion: TVNewser, @aprildryan and The Fix
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Parker Higgins / Mediashift:
WordPress Goes to Court to Defend Censored Bloggers  —  The blogging platform WordPress.com has taken the unusual — and welcome — step of going to court to defend its users against bogus copyright claims aimed at silencing their speech on the platform.  Automattic, WordPress's parent company …
Discussion: @pbsmediashift, Thanks:@mediatwit
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
‘Invisible Child’: Behind the Scenes, Before and After  —  Andrea Elliott's moving and exhaustively reported five-part series, “Invisible Child,” was 15 months in the making.  At 28,738 words, and accompanied by affecting images by Ruth Fremson, a staff photographer, this story of a homeless girl …
Matthew Waite / Al Jazeera English:
Journalists: good early drone adopters  —  Professional journalists could use drones, but a code of ethics must be devised.  —  The recent news that Amazon plans to use mini-drones to fly small packages to consumers in just 30 minutes raised an important question: what could a journalist do with a small drone?
Discussion: @mattwaite
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
YouTube releases list of 2013's top videos  —  © Shohei Miyano / Reuters - YouTube has released its list of the top-trending videos of 2013.  Above, visitors stand in front of a logo of YouTube at the YouTube Space Tokyo, operated by Google, in Tokyo February 14, 2013.  REUTERS/Shohei Miyano
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Ken Li, once Reuters.com editor, leaving news organization  —  Kenneth Li, who had been the global editor of Reuters.com and is now an editor at large of the news organization, is leaving.  —  In a Twitter post, Li wrote, “Working on something hot/cool.  Or whatever the millenials call it these days.”
Hannah Beech / TIME:
Foreign Correspondents in China Do Not Censor Themselves to Get Visas  —  Let's just clear up that little misunderstanding, shall we?  —  Over the past couple of days, I — as TIME's Beijing bureau chief — and other members of the foreign-journalist corps in China have been asked …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Aereo Won't Oppose Supreme Court Battle  —  The digital streaming company responds to broadcasters' attempts to interest the high court in a battle that could reshape the TV industry.  —  In papers filed at the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, Aereo says it is ready for the high court to review its legality.
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Dylan Tweney Named EIC of VentureBeat  —  Dylan Tweney, a senior editor at Wired.com from 2007 to 2011, has been named editor-in-chief of VentureBeat, a site covering emerging tech and companies.  Tweney has served as executive editor of VentureBeat since 2011.
 
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