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10:30 AM ET, December 2, 2014

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 Top News: 
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.
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Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
Sony Hack Attack: Studio Has Made Progress in Restoring Critical Business Systems, Insider Says
Discussion: Gawker and Variety
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 …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
New York Times didn't publish police officer Darren Wilson's address; executive editor Dean Baquet outraged at targeting of two reporters  —  Should The Times Have ‘Left It Out’ — and What, Exactly, Was ‘It’?  —  When in doubt, leave it out.  So goes the old expression about editing a news story.
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
NYT reporters Julie Bosman and Campbell Robertson harassed by Darren Wilson supporters after publishing name of street where he owns home
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  —  Why ‘Serial’ Won't Do Much for Podcasting or Hollywood  —  Given how much ink has been spilled about solving the whodunit featured in the new podcast …
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Associated Press:
Murder case behind Serial podcast phenomenon heads to appeals court
Discussion: bookforum.com, Junkee and Jezebel
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.
John Bohannon / Science:
Nature, 48 other journals in group will use ReadCube software to let subscribers share screen-only versions of papers for free  —  Nature publisher hopes to end ‘dark sharing’ by making read-only papers free  —  The publisher of the prestigious Nature family of scientific journals today unveiled …
Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
British journalist found guilty of contempt by Bangladesh court for questioning war death toll  —  A British journalist has been found guilty of contempt by a court in Bangladesh for questioning the official death toll in the country's war of independence.  —  David Bergman …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Times Newspapers posts £1.7m profit, first in 13 years  —  Times and Sunday Times report subscriber increases  —  Times Newspapers (TNL) has posted a £1.7m operating profit for the year ended 30 June 2014, its first profitable year since 2001.  —  It marks a considerable turn-around …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
How Vox Media expects to turn a profit — and justify a $380 million valuation  —  $380 million: That's the value of digital media startup Vox Media following its latest big cash infusion.  —  It's a stunning number — stunning just like the August investment that valued BuzzFeed at $850 million.
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
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Vice Media and Knight Foundation create $500k training fund at CUNY's Tow-Knight Center  —  Vice, Knight Foundation create ‘innovators’ fund at CUNY  —  Vice Media, Knight Foundation and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced plans Monday evening for a $500,000 journalism innovation fund …
Discussion: Poynter
Bloomberg:
China's Wanda Group Holds Talks to Buy Lions Gate, MGM in Hollywood Push  —  Dalian Wanda Group Co., which controls the second-biggest U.S. cinema chain, is in talks to acquire a stake in film studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., billionaire chairman Wang Jianlin said.
 
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Penguin Hatches A Cloud Reader For Pelican Books
Discussion: Good E-Reader
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: RFA, Reuters and Associated Press
Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
Ailing U.N. News Service Gets $25 Million
Discussion: @celiadugger
 Earlier Picks: 
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
Aisha Gani / Guardian:
Post-referendum, Scots turn to alternative media over newspapers and broadcast
Discussion: allmediascotland