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6:25 PM ET, September 16, 2014

Top News:

Fareed Zakaria Never Stopped Plagiarizing: How Dozens Of Episodes Of His CNN Show Ripped Others Off — Earlier this year, a certain CNN employee specializing in international news was caught red-handed plagiarizing dozens of instances of reporting. What did the network do?

Discussion: Poynter, Politico, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Poynter, @alexweprin, @aburnspolitico, @coalsonr, @jackshafer, @eliasisquith, @mtaibbi, @mtracey, @jeremyduns, @mobute, @joshsternberg, @over_rated and @mtaibbi

NetNewsCheck Latest:

Journalism organizations file comments with FCC supporting net neutrality — Journalism, News Groups Back Open Internet — The Newspaper Association of America, American Society of News Editors, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia …

Discussion: @dangillmor

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Forbes sale to Hong Kong investors is official: family retains 20%, Elevation is bought out — Deal for Forbes finalized — The Asian investors who are taking over a majority stake in Forbes Media finalized the deal last Friday, officially ending 97 years of family control …

Discussion: Forbes, FishbowlNY and MediaWire Daily

Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

BBC News launches account on instant messenger app Line — BBC News has launched an account on instant messaging app Line today, the latest in a series of experiments with content distribution through chat apps. BBC's Line account is its first international news channel inside a chat app …

Discussion: BBC, Campaign Asia and The Drum

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Hated podcast troll wins $1.3M patent verdict from CBS, but may soon be dead all the same — One of the standard bearers of America's broken system — a podcast troll that never made a podcast — has proved depressingly tenacious. Despite winning another jury verdict, the troll's days may be numbered.

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Personal Audio wins $1.3M from CBS in podcast patent case; firm can proceed against NBC, Fox

Discussion: UPROXX and Boing Boing

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Nearly 40 percent of African-Americans think news does not portray them accurately — 38 percent of African-Americans believe “the news they consume does not at all accurately portray their community or does so just slightly,” a new report from the Associated Press-NORC Center …

Discussion: American Press Institute and Mediaite

Andy McDonald / Digital TV Europe:

Netflix goes live in Germany, partners with Deutsche Telekom — Netflix has gone live today in Germany and has signed a distribution partnership with Deutsche Telekom in the latest leg of its European expansion. — Under the terms of the partnership deal, Netflix's app will be available …

Discussion: CNET, ValueWalk, DW.DE and The Next Web

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Advice for newspaper editors: Pay attention to BuzzFeed — A group of legacy media executives was told on Monday that it has a lot to learn from the likes of BuzzFeed. “You may not approve of their editorial content,” said Amy Webb, CEO of Webbmedia Group. “But you must learn from their digital strategy.”

Mario R. García / Garcia Media:

Financial Times: a classic redesign for the digital age — From time to time a newspaper redesign is announced that gets everyone on alert mode. Such is the case with the redesign unveiled today by the Financial Times. Let's take a look at the centerpieces of this project: the new fonts …

Discussion: Guardian, Quartz, Guardian, @mathewi, Design Week, News & Tech, MediaPost, Mumbrella Asia, The Drum, TheMediaBriefing, @drmariorgarcia, BBC and American Press Institute

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Clear Channel Renames Itself iHeartMedia, in an Embrace of the Digital — When it was introduced by Clear Channel Communications in 2008, the iHeartRadio app had a humble job as an online outlet for the radio giant's 800-plus stations. — Now iHeartRadio has become such a central part …

Discussion: AdAge and @cnymediacritic

Dan Reimold / College Media Matters:

College Newspaper Drops Print, First to Operate Primarily on Publishing Platform Medium — Medium now has Substance. The popular publishing platform recently started hosting Substance, a new student publication at Mt. San Antonio College that doubles as a totally reinvented version of The Mountaineer campus newspaper.

Discussion: @journostuff, @ronreason and @waxpancake

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Dean Baquet, the NYT's Executive Editor, on Jill Abramson, Race, Surviving Cancer—and TMZ Envy — The first months of Dean Baquet's editorship of The New York Times have been dramatic. Here he talks about the departure of his predecessor, punching walls, and why assigning reporters to warzones keeps him ‘most awake at night.’

Discussion: @nytfridge, @thelloydgrove, @idiplomacy, The New York Observer, @sampjacobs, @mathewi, Mediaite, FishbowlNY and The Newspaper Guild

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:

Roku Surpasses 10M Players Sold In U.S. — Up From 8 Million U.S. Shipments In January — Roku continues to keep its international sales numbers under wraps, but the OTT video specialist announced Tuesday that it has surpassed sales of 10 million players in the U.S.

Discussion: The Official Roku Blog, TechCrunch, Fast Company, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, Home Media Magazine, Variety, The Verge, The Next Web, Re/code and Gigaom

Agence France-Presse:

French daily Liberation to trim a third of its workforce — Paris (AFP) - Left-leaning French newspaper Liberation said Monday it was slashing about a third of its workforce to “save” the daily founded by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The 93 jobs concern those on permanent and part …

Discussion: Guardian, @mathewi and english.rfi.fr

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Dish Adds Food Network, HGTV and Other Scripps Cable Nets to Internet TV Lineup — Dish Network is another step closer to launching a cheaper over-the-top TV service, obtaining rights to deliver live and on-demand content from Scripps Networks Interactive's suite of cablers including Food Network, HGTV and DIY Network.

Discussion: Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable, Bloomberg, Re/code and Home Media Magazine