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7:25 AM ET, November 10, 2014

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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.
Discussion: @azadessa, @raediology and @ijnet
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Bloomberg:
South African Media Squeezed by Growing State Pressure  —  South Africa's government is lobbying media executives and using its advertising muscle to win its battle for a more supine press.  —  A management fight at Hosken Consolidated Investments Ltd. (HCI) revealed that a cabinet minister …
Discussion: @toxinews
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
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
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.
Discussion: Tech in Asia
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 …
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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
Tim Ryan / American Journalism Review:
Dallas Morning News web editors used caution when publishing Ebola stories, despite rapid increase in traffic and social media followers  —  Holding Back on Ebola: One Newspaper's Tale of Caution  —  In covering the recent Ebola outbreak at a local hospital, The Dallas Morning News …
Discussion: @nprrussell and @jayrosen_nyu
Mark Oppenheimer / New York Times:
Christian publication World is one of few religious magazines doing investigative reporting  —  A Muckraking Magazine Creates a Stir Among Evangelical Christians  —  In October, Mark Driscoll, the evangelical pastor and best-selling author, resigned from Mars Hill, his Seattle megachurch.
Discussion: @rns and @markopp1
Dan Colarusso / Reuters:
Reuters ends reader comments on news stories, citing migration of discussions to social media; ability to comment remains on columns, blogs  —  Editor's note: Reader comments in the age of social media  —  By Reuters  —  During the past few years, much has changed about how readers interact with news.
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Launches In-School Digital Subscription Program for K-12  —  The New York Times (NYTimes.com) today announced the launch of NYTimes.com In-School Access, a new digital subscription offering for K-12 institutions.  The subscription offers full web access to NYtimes.com …
Discussion: MediaPost, Education Dive and Cision
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
DirecTV sued Al Jazeera America seeking to remove the news channel from its service  —  DirecTV's Super-Secret Lawsuit Against Al Jazeera Revealed (Exclusive)  —  After a judge slams the parties over a heavily-redacted filing, it's finally revealed that DirecTV seeks the right to terminate …
 
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