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6:50 PM ET, November 22, 2014

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Emily Bell / Reuters Institute:
After ceding power to Silicon Valley, journalists must build own tools, explore issues of regulation, and report deeply to retain influence  —  Silicon Valley and Journalism: Make up or Break up?  —  Good evening.  I want to thank David Levy and the Reuters Institute for inviting me to speak here today.
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Aereo May Be Dead, But Internet TV Will Live On  —  It's a sad day for Aereo and all those who believed in it.  The startup, which allowed people to stream live broadcast television to their computers and mobile devices, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, just months after shutting down operations.
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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Aereo CEO: Court Made Incredibly Wrong Decision, Cord-Cutting Is Inevitable
Lane Wood / Medium:
Pando founder Sarah Lacy's allusions to physical threats distort media narrative on Uber scandal  —  Here ego again.  —  There's something unsettling about all this Uber stuff.  —  Maybe it's the fact that I have to wade through all the technorati tweets about “#Ubergate” …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Andrew Beaujon heading for Washingtonian  —  Poynter's news editor, Andrew Beaujon, announced to staff Friday that he's leaving for Washingtonian, where he'll be a senior editor.  —  “I'm grateful that Poynter gave me a shot as a media blogger,” Beaujon said.  “I've loved my time here and care deeply about my coworkers.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
BuzzFeed's latest traffic trick: The ‘social URL’  —  BuzzFeed may already be king when it comes to getting people to share its posts, but that's not stopping it from continually trying new things.  Now, BuzFeed has even tapped the humble URL to work harder.
Discussion: @owenthomas, @ksablan and @raju
Evan Radford / J-source:
The failed ebook experiment at Canadian newspapers  —  By Evan Radford  —  Ebooks have failed to live up to their promise as a new revenue stream for newspapers.  That's the lesson from experiments at at least three dailies across the country.  —  The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail …
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
Cloudflare: 500 Gbps DDoS attack, largest in history, carried out against independent Hong Kong news sites  —  The Largest Cyber Attack In History Has Been Hitting Hong Kong Sites  —  The intense skirmishes inside Hong Kong's Occupy Central protests haven't just taken place on the streets, but online too.
Discussion: The Week, The Verge and TIME
Jim Romenesko:
Tribune Publishing rescinds its Discretionary Time Off policy  —  The Discretionary Time Off policy that Tribune Publishing unveiled last Thursday has been rescinded, “based on valuable input from employees.”  —  A Los Angeles Times employee says in an email that “a group of Times employees …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Viacom Draws Lawmaker's Rebuke for Blocking TV Streaming … Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, expressed concern that media giant Viacom Inc. is blocking cable operator Suddenlink Communications's customers from streaming TV shows on Viacom websites …
Discussion: @shaliniwsj
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Apple $450 million e-book settlement gets final court approval  —  (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday gave final approval to Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) agreement to pay $450 million to resolve claims it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices.
Associated Press:
Judge: Missouri police can't stop media recordings  —  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has issued court orders that prevent Missouri police from stopping media and others from recording officers.  —  The court order follows a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that said police tried …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Bloomberg:
FCC Barred From Disclosing TV Contracts in Comcast Review  —  A federal appeals court blocked the Federal Communications Commission from ordering the disclosure of programming contracts as part of the U.S. government's review of Comcast Corp. (CMCSA)'s takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC)
 
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Andrew Hampp / Billboard:
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York magazine creates ‘pop-up blogs’
Discussion: @poynter
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Changes at FT to promote thinking ‘in digital terms’