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12:35 PM ET, November 10, 2014

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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Bloomberg explains its strategy for success in online TV  —  Long before Fox, CBS, or HBO debuted options for on-demand streaming video, business news-oriented cable channel Bloomberg was already available online and on many connected devices.  —  This, of course, is significant …
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Politico launches redesigned fully responsive site, with emphasis on enterprise stories  —  Welcome to the new POLITICO!  —  A note from the editor.  —  We're delighted to share with you this morning an updated website that we hope reflects the best of what we aim to provide our readers …
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
Obama tells the FCC to implement real net neutrality.  And he's serious.  —  President Obama has come out strongly and specifically in favor of “bright-line rules” that will protect network neutrality.  Now the FCC just has to write them.  —  Proving himself the policy nerd that pundits deride …
Mandy de Waal / IJNet:
How a South African news site gives youth a voice and a vocation  —  Even though South Africa's census data shows youth makes up 59 percent of a 51.7 million population, news operations that cater exclusively to a young demographic are rare.  —  Now a news site has stepped in to fill this gap.
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Discussion: @toxinews
Stephen Lurie / Matter:
Wikimedia's 36 “stewards” use their global editing rights to police and manage all Wiki sites  —  The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia  —  What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together.
Discussion: @jamestylerespn and @readmatter
Laura Miller / Salon:
Q&A with Cory Doctorow on copyright law, how artists are impacted by the internet, and DRM  —  Cory Doctorow: “We're all sharecroppers in Google's fields for the rest of eternity”  —  The novelist talks about the totalitarian perils of copyright law and how the Internet is changing art
Discussion: @erodley
Keith Gessen / Vanity Fair:
How Did Amazon End Up as Literary Enemy No. 1?  —  Amazon's war with publishing giant Hachette over e-book pricing has earned it a black eye in the media, with the likes of Philip Roth, James Patterson, and Stephen Colbert demanding that the online mega-store stand down.
Discussion: @pernillet, @sethmnookin and GalleyCat
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Network Fullscreen Acquires Digital Studio Rooster Teeth  —  Fullscreen, one of the largest YouTube multichannel networks, has acquired pioneering digital studio Rooster Teeth.  —  Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Fullscreen — which itself was recently acquired by Otter Media …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Russia Today threatened with Ofcom sanctions due to bias  —  Kremlin-backed news channel found guilty of breaching UK broadcasting regulations in coverage of Ukraine crisis  —  Russia Today has been threatened with statutory sanctions by media regulator Ofcom after the Kremlin-backed news …
Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
Islamic Extremists Use YouTube's Automated Copyright Dispute Process To Access Critics' Personal Data  —  YouTube's infringement reporting system is — like many others around the web — fundamentally broken.  Making bogus copyright claims is still an easy way to get channels shut down or to siphon ad revenue from existing videos.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Digital News Asia Raises $300K To Bring Old School ICT Journalism To The Web In Southeast Asia  —  A tech news site writing about another tech news site has the potential to get very insider baseball-ery, so I try to carefully pick and choose which of our peers to shed light on.
Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
HuffPost Live Joins Hulu Lineup (Exclusive)  —  HuffPost Live content launches early Monday morning on Hulu, TheWrap has learned.  —  The digital video arm of The Huffington Post now has its own page on Hulu, with one-hour long episodes of HuffPost Live added daily.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @roysekoff
 
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