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9:20 AM ET, November 27, 2014

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David Meyer / Gigaom:
EU Parliament calls on Commission to consider Google break-up  —  As expected, the European Parliament has passed a resolution that calls on the European Commission to consider a break-up of Google as a potential solution to its dominance in the European search market.
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New York Times:
A raid by US troops in Yemen sought to rescue an American journalist being held hostage by Al Qaeda  —  Rescuers in Yemen Sought American, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — An American journalist held hostage in a remote part of eastern Yemen by Al Qaeda's affiliate there was one of the main targets …
Discussion: Associated Press
Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
BitTorrent Goes Legit With Its First Original Web Series  —  Peer-to-peer file sharing platform BitTorrent wants to change what the public thinks it does.  Instead of being associated with all the illegal TV shows, movies and illicit content it can store, the tech company wants to be seen as a provider of premium legal content.
Discussion: Guardian and Tubefilter
Chris Lehmann / In These Times:
Reports from Inside First Look Media Suggest That Maybe Silicon Valley Shouldn't Manage Journalists  —  Journalists on the Left have always had problems with institutions.  I'm not referring here to these scribes' honorable muckraking pedigrees, or their principled distrust of the national security state and the corporate boardroom.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mail Online revenues grow 41% to £62m in 2014  —  Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday's continuing decline in advertising and sales offset by digital platform's increases  —  Mail Online has grew revenues by more than 40% to £62m in 2014, almost completely offsetting the advertising …
B&T:
Fairfax Subscribers Get Access To New York Times In New Partnership  —  Fairfax Media and The New York Times have formed a collaboration which will see current subscribers of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age offered six months of free, unlimited access to The New York Times website and some smartphone apps.
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
BuzzFeed media trends: homepage out, social and video in  —  More people now come to media sites from social networks than from search engines, reveals BuzzFeed's industry trends report  —  Social media feeds could replace the homepage for media organisations as more people find stories …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
NAPA boss says BBC should buy news from agencies rather than ‘call centre’ local newspapers  —  The National Association of Press Agencies has urged the BBC to start buying in local content from its members.  —  The suggestion follows news from BBC head of news James Harding earlier this month …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New Yorker cover artist says resemblance to August cartoon is unintentional  —  The New Yorker's new cover is a beautiful, understated take on the unrest in Ferguson this past week.  —  It also bears a strong resemblance to an Aug. 21 editorial cartoon by R.J. Matson.  (courtesy Cagle)
Globe and Mail:
Jian Ghomeshi faces five charges in sexual assault investigation  —  Former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi is facing five charges in relation to a sexual assault investigation.  —  Mr. Ghomeshi, 47, has been charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of “overcome resistance - choking,” Toronto police said in a news release.
 
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