Top News:
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.
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 …
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
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
Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
Lane Wood, who wrote piece attacking Pando's Sarah Lacy, has links with senior Uber execs — The guy who accused Sarah Lacy of “playing victim” over Uber forgot to disclose he's “bros” with the company's two most senior execs — Ordinarily, guns don't make me feel relaxed.
Discussion:
Re/code, @omar_cruz, @jyarow and VentureBeat
John McDermott / Digiday:
Gamergaters try to damage Gawker's ad revenue by lobbying its ad tech partners to sever ties — GamerGate's new approach: Attack Gawker's ad tech — GamerGate, the Internet outrage phenomenon that refuses to go gently into the Web's good night, has entered phase two.
Discussion:
@digiday and @mcdermott
Output Producer, CA — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Breaking News Editor, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Local Government Reporter, IA — 
Research Director, CA — 
Immigration Enforcement Reporter — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Editorial Assistant, Remote US — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Sports Reporter, WA — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Political Newsletter Writer, CO — 
Jackson Reporter, MS — 
Music Editor, AZ — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Reporter II - Technology, Remote — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
