Mediagazer: Facebook Video Pitch Deck Shows It Has Gone To War Against TV (Jim Edwards/Business Insider)

12:10 PM ET, December 13, 2013

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Mary Ann Milbourn / Orange County Register:

Register owner to launch daily L.A. newspaper — 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.

Discussion: The Wrap, LA Observed, FishbowlNY, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press, @margotroosevelt, Los Angeles Business …, Poynter and The Newspaper Guild

Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:

Sen. Bill Nelson: I told AP not to run Robert Levinson story — Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said early Friday that he urged the Associated Press not to publish a story about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in Iran more than six years ago and had been working for the CIA.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and @lrozen

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Associated Press Held CIA Scoop For 3 Years At The Government's Request

Discussion: Associated Press, Washington Post, @mightyobvious_ and Gawker

Paul Colford / The Definitive Source:
Why AP is publishing story about missing American tied to CIA

Kelly McBride / Poynter:

Newtown's media blackout forces journalists to do their jobs — The one-year anniversary of a tragic event is a significant moment. But for journalists, such moments too often become opportunities for emotional exploitation rather than real journalism. — The citizens of Newtown, Conn. …

Discussion: Washington Post, @evanberland_ap, Education and the Media, TIME, Columbia Journalism Review, Jack Shafer and Boing Boing

David Kravets / Wired:

AOL Tightens CrunchBase's Licensing to Block Competitors — AOL is legally locking down its crowdsourced CrunchBase database of tech companies, in response to a commercial iPhone app that used the database to compete with AOL. — The new CrunchBase license will continue to allow free use …

Discussion: Info @ CrunchBase and TechCrunch

Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:

Media Matters Declares Victory: ‘The War On Fox Is Over’ — WASHINGTON — Since its founding in 2004, the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America has been a thorn in the side of Fox News. Its dozens of staffers monitor the network's leadership, hosts, guests and financial dealings incessantly …

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

Tom Balmforth / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

Out Of Ukrainian Protests, A New Media Outlet Is Born — KYIV — A wave of panic grips protesters as rumors spread that tanks are bearing down on Kyiv to quell the revolt against President Viktor Yanukovych. — Several news outlets ran reports and word spreads like wildfire on Twitter.

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Toronto Star reporter serves Rob Ford with libel notice — “On Thursday I served Rob Ford with a libel notice, the first step in the process of pursuing a defamation lawsuit,” Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale wrote in an article Thursday, explaining why he'd chosen to take legal action against Toronto's controversial mayor.

Discussion: Huffington Post Canada, National Post, Torontoist, Globe and Mail and Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Facebook Video Pitch Deck Shows It Has Gone To War Against TV — Facebook believes its soon-to-be-launched video ad product will compete directly for TV ad dollars, and those going on YouTube, according to a leaked sales pitch deck obtained by Techcrunch. — Speaker notes alongside …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Eddie Makuch / GameSpot:

Struggling Blockbuster to close all UK stores ahead of Christmas — Beleaguered DVD and game rental company Blockbuster will close its remaining United Kingdom stores in the next week, the firm's administrators announced today. All 91 remaining stores will close by December 16 …

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Amidst fierce competition, music streaming services fight for paying subscribers — A Stream of Music, Not Revenue — When Spotify, the digital music company of the moment, announced this week an exclusive deal with Led Zeppelin and free access on mobile devices, it also reported impressive numbers.

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 …

Discussion: @bydanielvictor, @patkiernan, @mattapuzzo, @byronyork, @tedhartii, @sulliview, @longreads, @palafo, @richarddeitsch and Politicker

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.”

Discussion: @kenli729, @nycjim, @nytfridge and @shaneferro

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.

Discussion: Capital New York, @jenniferkates, @katemessner, @nikhilgoya_l, Bookseller news, @scottpwaldman and Metropolis

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