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11:00 PM ET, November 19, 2014

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 Top News: 
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
BuzzFeed misled by suggesting everyone present at Uber dinner heard Emil Michael's remarks  —  Behind the scenes at Uber/BuzzFeed fracas  —  Uber is at the forefront of a vast reordering of ground transportation and how we use cars.  It is also in the middle of many publicity storms.
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Al Franken:
Sen. Al Franken asks Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for answers on privacy, God view tool, discipline for Emil Michael, and tracking journalists  —  Dear Mr Kalanick  —  I am writing in regard to reports of recent comments and actions by top Uber executives concerning journalists.
BuzzFeed:
Uber investigating its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, for tracking BuzzFeed journalist's location without her consent
Steve Albini / Guardian:
Music producer Steve Albini discusses how the music industry is thriving on the internet, the death of labels, and copyright law  —  Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry - in full  —  The music producer, Shellac frontman and author of seminal 1993 essay …
Alexandra Bruell / AdAge:
Condé Nast Agrees to GroupM's Tougher Ad Viewability Standards  —  Condé Nast, the publisher of brands such as Vogue and Style.com, has agreed to GroupM's demand to pay only for online ads that are entirely viewable by consumers, a tougher standard than the industry has been pushing.
Discussion: WWD, @mwalrath, @rmaster and MediaPost
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Media critic Jack Shafer leaves Reuters  —  Media critic Jack Shafer is leaving his job at Reuters, he announced Wednesday evening. … The announcement appears to be among the final gasps of a Web strategy that started a few years back with great optimism.
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
War journalists ‘being targeted and silenced’, says Rory Peck Trust chief  —  Tina Carr warns of worst-ever conditions for freelance journalists as winners of the 2014 Rory Peck awards are announced  —  Freelance journalists are “being targeted and silenced more than ever” in warzones …
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
8tracks streaming music service aims to be a ‘better friend’ to indie labels  —  With 8m users, site also wants to be ‘better about how we matchmake between listener and DJ’  —  It's easy for the debate around digital music to be dominated by the big services, from iTunes and Spotify to YouTube and SoundCloud.
Angela Doland / AdAge:
For the First Time, TV Will Account For Less Than Half of China's Ad Spending This Year  —  For the First Time, TV Will Account For Less Than Half of China's Ad Spending This Year  —  Going Native: Content Marketing Strategies  —  It was a tradition of China's ad world …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Pop Up Archive releases new audio transcription features  —  New podcasting initiatives, including “Serial”, “StartUp” and “Radiotopia” have lately attracted a lot of attention from reporters and investors.  —  But with all this new audio being gathered and posted to the Web, how can journalists and their audiences parse it?
Discussion: Knight Foundation
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Solutions in Seattle: A partnership has helped The Seattle Times rethink its education coverage  —  For nearly two decades, a community group on Chicago's Northwest Side has been recruiting parents to spend more time in their children's schools.  Since its formation in 1995 …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Apple partnering with Rubicon Project to sell iAds through company's automated marketplace  —  Apple Is Planning To Turn Around iAd By Venturing Into Programmatic For The First Time  —  Apple's mobile advertising unit iAd is moving into programmatic advertising for the first time by partnering …
Discussion: SlashGear and AppleInsider
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism  —  Agnès Chauveau suspended as executive director at prestigious Sciences Po school after alleged use of other journalists' work  —  The executive director of a prestigious Paris journalism school has been suspended after being accused of plagiarism.
Discussion: Poynter
 
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
NBC Pulls Bill Cosby Comedy Project Amid Rape Allegations
Dara Lind / Vox:
An interview with founder Neil Barsky and editor Bill Keller of The Marshall Project on the state of criminal justice journalism
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Scribner's Magazine to Be Reincarnated as Literary Website
Discussion: GalleyCat and @sarahw
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
ABC and SBS funding to be cut by $308m over five years
Discussion: Malcolm Turnbull MP
 Earlier Picks: 
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Xiaomi And Shunwei Capital Make $300M Strategic Investment In iQiyi, One Of China's Largest Online Video Platforms
Discussion: VentureBeat
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ofcom appoints director Steve Unger as interim chief executive
Discussion: Press Association
Paul Carsten / Reuters:
China's internet TV sites in $1 billion battle for foreign shows
Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen to Measure Netflix Viewing
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Former Huffington Post M.E. Jimmy Soni lands gig at New York Observer
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Johnston Press, Newsquest, and Local World to launch 1XL digital ad platform to better compete with tech companies like Google, Facebook
Discussion: Press Gazette and Prolific North