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Frances Perraudin / Guardian:
Vine shifts from comedy clips to a valid journalistic tool — Channel 4's Alex Thomson filmed Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and shared the short videos on Twitter — Just before Channel 4 News's chief correspondent Alex Thomson set off on a reporting assignment to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone earlier this month …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
ESPN Gets Ready to Launch Its First Web Video Subscription Service — For Cricket's World Cup — ESPN's efforts to sell streaming video subscriptions for some sports programming — without requiring viewers to pay for cable TV - could start early next year.
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
What's the right news experience on a phone? Stacy-Marie Ishmael and BuzzFeed are trying to figure it out — A few weeks ago, we wrote about BuzzFeed's hiring of Stacy-Marie Ishmael, formerly of the Financial Times, as the editorial lead for their forthcoming news app.
Discussion:
@brizzyc, @charlesarthur, @katienelson, @lpolgreen, @thomnagy, @mattfrehner and @s_m_i
Erin Keane / Salon:
Entertainment journalists failed to hold Bill Cosby to account for decades — What I wish I'd asked Bill Cosby: How I learned that entertainment journalists can play hardball too — I know the template — because I followed it — Two years ago, I worked for my local public radio station's news division …
Discussion:
New York Times and Today
David Carr / New York Times:
‘Serial,’ Podcasting's First Breakout Hit, Sets Stage for More — On Thursday, people will gather around tables everywhere and, well, talk about how bummed they are that “Serial,” the wildly popular podcast, is taking Thanksgiving off. — “Serial,” by producers of public radio's …
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Sony Paralyzed By Computer Hacker Attack With Ominous Message — UPDATE: While it seems that a world-leading tech company would be the last to be brought down by a hacker, this Sony thing is serious. I've come across a still photo of the hacked message that appeared on screens, posted by a site called business2community.com.
Discussion:
Variety, Business 2 Community, Business Insider, The Next Web and @alishagrauso
East Bay Ray / The New York Observer:
The Dead Kennedys' East Bay Ray says YouTube is taking too big a cut from artists — Dead Kennedys' East Bay Explains How YouTube Is Stealing From Musicians — YouTube (owned by Google Inc.) is a remarkable platform for the sharing of videos and music by both fans and creators.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Deception? Price gouging? Subscription scam? Top magazine titles won't say a thing — In mid-October, I wrote about the New York Times offer to refund overpayments to customers who fell for an unauthorized third-party renewal solicitation. The Times also warned subscribers in print and via e-mail not to fall for the scam.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How a virus demanding a bitcoin ransom almost destroyed a public radio station's archives — It was the first Saturday in November when Patrick Neelin, the lead engineer at the University of Missouri's public radio station KBIA, got an emergency call from the station's programming director.
Discussion:
@kbia_engineer
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Somali journalist Said Muse Dahir denied asylum by US, even after being shot by terrorists — Terrorists Shot This Journalist Twice And He Can't Get U.S. Asylum — Said Muse Dahir kept his newspaper and radio show going in Somalia, even as al-Shabaab militants wreak violence in the country.
Discussion:
@maddow, @dcbigjohn and @itsjina
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Ferguson police may have violated court order by arresting reporter for “failure to disperse” — On A Night Of Peaceful Protests In Ferguson, One Reporter's Arrest Breaks The Calm — FERGUSON, Mo. — Police officers arrested a journalist during peaceful protests in Ferguson on Saturday night …
Discussion:
@stlcountypd, Poynter, ACLU-EM News, @alexwroblewski, @ryanjreilly, @joelcurrier, @aclu, @deray, @treyyingst, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Reason
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT's Public Editor calls for more context, transparency, diversity, and less straining for symmetry in its Israeli/Palestinian conflict coverage — The Conflict and the Coverage — THIS is the column I never wanted to write. For many months I have received hundreds of emails from readers …
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