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5:00 PM ET, December 2, 2014

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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Joel Johnson out as editor in Gawker management shake-up  —  Gawker is shaking up its editorial management structure, removing editorial director Joel Johnson and creating two new positions: executive editor and group managing editor.  —  This afternoon, Gawker owner Nick Denton sent a memo to staff …
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Kevin Roose / Fusion:
More from the Sony Pictures hack: budgets, layoffs, HR scripts, and 3,800 social security numbers  —  Yesterday, I reported on a spreadsheet apparently taken from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest and most powerful studios in Hollywood, by a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace.
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Kevin Roose / Fusion:
Documents from hack of Sony Pictures reveal salaries of over 6k employees, including top execs  —  Hacked documents reveal a Hollywood studio's stunning gender and race gap  —  Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest film studios in Hollywood, appears to have been the subject of a massive, devastating computer hack.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Bezos: Washington Post is changing from a local paper to a national and global publication  —  Bezos on 'the thing we're changing' at The Washington Post  —  Amazon chairman and C.E.O. Jeff Bezos is optimistic about the future of The Washington Post, which he bought last year …
Roger Parloff / Fortune:
Eddy Cue interviewed on Apple's ebook price-fixing case, says “we have to fight for the truth”  —  Second Bite: Can Apple clear its name in the ebooks drama?  —  When Apple goes before a federal appeals court on Dec. 15, trying to overturn the ebooks price-fixing judgment …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
To Gain the Upper Hand, Amazon Disrupts Itself  —  Sometime last summer, a quarter-billion dollars went missing at Amazon.  —  Analysts were expecting the usual gangbusters third quarter.  But it was about $250 million short of forecasts.  —  Here is one way to look at the disappointing results …
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Business reporters flock to Ello for a more intimate crowd, easy blogging, room for images  —  Finance media's hottest club is Ello  —  By now, you've probably heard of Ello, the anti-Facebook social networking site founded by a handful of graphic designers.
Christopher Miller / Mashable:
Ukraine just created its own version of Orwell's ‘Ministry of Truth’  —  KIEV, Ukraine — The Ukraine government has established a department that critics are calling the “Ministry of Truth” — borrowing a term from George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984.
Don Reisinger / CNET:
Roku still tops as sales of streaming-media players rise  —  Ten percent of US households with a broadband connection purchased a streaming-media device in the first nine months of this year, already matching last year's tally.  —  Streaming-media devices continue to grow …
Variety:
CBS Threatens to Go Dark for Dish Subscribers on Thursday  —  Despite past extensions, CBS has vowed to go dark for Dish subscribers on Thursday if a new carriage deal is not reached by then.  “For six months, CBS has been vigorously attempting to secure fair carriage deals with Dish,” reads a statement from CBS.
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Vice, Knight Foundation and CUNY create ‘innovators’ fund  —  Vice Media, Knight Foundation and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced plans Monday evening for a $500,000 journalism innovation fund, to be awarded to journalism organizations around the world.
Discussion: Poynter
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
After Getting to $100 Million, BuzzFeed Ad Sales Boss Andy Wiedlin Heads for the Door  —  BuzzFeed says it will generate more than $100 million in revenue this year.  Now the man in charge of bringing in that money is heading out the door.  —  Chief revenue officer Andy Wiedlin …
Discussion: @sfiegerman and @pkafka
John McDermott / Digiday:
Google's tying of two DoubleClick ad tech products, Bid Manager and Ad Exchange, raises anti-competitive concerns amongst media buyers  —  Google's display advertising dominance raises concerns  —  The digital advertising industry has long worried about Google using its dominance …
Discussion: @digiday
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Audio book distributor Audible commissioning and producing original audio dramas from established authors  —  An Art Form Rises: Audio Without the Book  —  Print has been good to Jeffery Deaver.  Over the last 26 years, Mr. Deaver, a lawyer-turned-thriller writer, has published 35 novels and sold 40 million copies of them globally.
 
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Media to begin trading Friday on NYSE
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Serial's success lies in Koenig's narration style and likely won't translate to other mediums or help other podcasts grow despite the buzz
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
How Vox Media expects to turn a profit — and justify a $380 million valuation
Discussion: TheMediaBriefing
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Penguin Hatches A Cloud Reader For Pelican Books
Discussion: Good E-Reader
John Bohannon / Science:
Nature, 48 other journals in group will use ReadCube software to let subscribers share screen-only versions of papers for free
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Anjali Shastry / American Journalism Review:
Q&A with Emergent's Craig Silverman on accuracy in journalism and the spread of rumors on the web
Discussion: Poynter
Agence France-Presse:
Vietnam arrests anti-China blogger for posting ‘bad content’
Discussion: Reuters, RFA and Associated Press
Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
Ailing U.N. News Service Gets $25 Million
Discussion: @celiadugger
Darren Davidson / The Australian:
Foxtel and Discovery plan lowball bid for Australia's Ten Network, valuing it at $510M-$664M
Discussion: Reuters
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital
Discussion: Poynter and @willpsaunders