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12:50 PM ET, November 24, 2014

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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: @pkafka
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 …
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.
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Lane Wood / Medium:
Pando founder Sarah Lacy's allusions to physical threats distort media narrative on Uber scandal
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 …
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Despite being shot by terrorists, US denies asylum to Somali journalist Said Muse Dahir  —  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.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Netflix more than doubled its share of peak residential traffic in Latin America in last year  —  Muy bien: Netflix more than doubles traffic share in LatAm  —  Netflix had a hard time when it launched in Latin America three years ago, but now, it's seeing some solid growth, according to new Sandvine data.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Redbox to Hike Rental Price of DVDs by 25%
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David Meyer / Gigaom:
BBC uses “collateral freedom” system to bypass Chinese censorship
Discussion: GreatFire.org
John McDermott / Digiday:
Gamergaters try to damage Gawker's ad revenue by lobbying its ad tech partners to sever ties
Discussion: @digiday
Jamie Orme / Guardian:
Tesco hides newspaper covers to stop children seeing ‘sexualised pictures’
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The failed ebook experiment at Canadian newspapers
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
Cloudflare: 500 Gbps DDoS attack, largest in history, carried out against independent Hong Kong news sites
Discussion: BetaNews, The Week and The Verge
Jim Romenesko:
Tribune Publishing rescinds its Discretionary Time Off policy
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Viacom Draws Lawmaker's Rebuke for Blocking TV Streaming
Discussion: @shaliniwsj