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2:20 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 …
Discussion: TVNewser, @jayrosen_nyu and @niemanlab, Thanks:@claresayas
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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Bloomberg:
South African Media Squeezed by Growing State Pressure
Discussion: @toxinews
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, @roysekoff and VideoInk
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 …
Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times:
Following The Newsroom's third and final season, Aaron Sorkin says he's done with television  —  Aaron Sorkin signs off from TV ... maybe  —  It was just after 11:30 a.m. when Aaron Sorkin rose from the hulking leather club chair in his office to light a cigarette and announce his retirement from television.
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
Our Bad Media:
Newsweek Corrected 7 of Fareed Zakaria's Plagiarized Articles; The Washington Post Needs To Do The Same For These 6  —  Yesterday on his widely acclaimed Sunday news show, Fareed Zakaria did a segment on a recent international “Index of Ignorance” survey that placed Americans' ignorance on current issues second to only Italians.
Discussion: Poynter and @abeaujon
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Newsweek:
An Interview With the Anonymous Media Watchdogs Who Accused Fareed Zakaria of Plagiarism
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.
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 …
Jared Malsin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why did Iran imprison Jason Rezaian?  —  The Washington Post reporter has been inside Evin prison for more than three months  —  Everywhere he traveled in the world, Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian invited people to visit Iran, where he has lived for nearly 10 years, and reported for the Post since 2012.
Discussion: Mashable
 
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Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
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The New York Times Launches In-School Digital Subscription Program for K-12
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From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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