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11:00 PM ET, December 27, 2014

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Reuters:
Court allows Aereo to auction TV streaming technology assets  —  A bankruptcy court has allowed defunct video streaming company Aereo Inc to auction its TV streaming technology assets, according to court papers published on Friday.  —  The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday …
Jim Romenesko:
Claim: New York Observer story on the Times is ‘innuendo-laden’ and ‘laughably wrong’  —  Warning: I am about to indulge in a long screed.  If you don't care about media covering media (and I wouldn't blame you), look away.  —  The New York Observer's recent article on The New York Times Company …
Discussion: @howardweaver and @joehagansays
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Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
New York Times Insider: Multi-Million Dollar Shortfall Causing Drastic Cuts  —  The New York Times building.  (Photo by Arman Dzidzovic/ New York Observer)  —  Yesterday, New York Times readers were treated to a beautifully nuanced and balanced and richly detailed feature about a topic very much in the mix.
Discussion: @danmunns
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook, Twitter, and Google resist Russian regulator's orders to remove information on rally supporting opposition leader Navalny  —  U.S. Social-Media Giants Are Resisting Russia Censors  —  Facebook, Twitter, Google Wrestle With Kremlin Orders to Erase Content
Discussion: @mathewi and Engadget
Michelle Moghtader / Reuters:
Iran to expand Internet “smart filtering” to censor content without banning entire websites  —  Iran expands ‘smart’ Internet censorship  —  (Reuters) - Iran is to expand what it calls “smart filtering” of the Internet, a policy of censoring undesirable content on websites without banning …
Discussion: RT and Trend.Az
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
NFL to post game highlights and other video clips on Facebook with Verizon Wireless ads, share ad revenues with Facebook  —  Facebook Scores NFL Video Clips With Ads From Verizon  —  Facebook has scored a big partner as it ramps up its online video ambitions: the National Football League.
Discussion: Re/code, Gigaom, TechCrunch and The Verge
Voice of America:
Radio Free Europe Bureau Raided by Azerbaijan Authorities  —  State prosecutors in Azerbaijan raided the offices of a U.S.-government funded media outlet on Friday, saying they have a court order to close the facility.  —  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said Friday at least 10 prosecutor's …
Agence France-Presse:
Mauritania sentences blogger to death for article deemed blasphemous of Islam, for the first time since its independence in 1960  —  Mauritania issues first apostasy death sentence  —  18 hrs ago  —  Nouakchott (AFP) - Mauritania has delivered its first death sentence for apostasy since independence …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Interlude targets YouTube with more engaging “choose your own adventure” music videos  —  YouTube Challenger Lets Music Fans Call the Shots  —  Five years ago Yoni Bloch, an Israeli rock star, wanted to make a music video that would let viewers choose what happened as the story unfolded.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and @interludevideo
Regina Ruiz / KOAT.com:
The Albuquerque Journal website taken down for several hours to investigate ISIS propaganda post; no data compromised says the newspaper  —  Albuquerque Journal, on ISIS headline: There was no data breach  —  Newspaper site goes down after ‘Cyber Jihad’  —  A radical group's Christmas …
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
What does it mean to run “product” in a news organization?  Hayley Nelson's big challenge at Wired  —  f there's a news outlet you would expect to be ahead of the curve in digital media, it might be Wired.  The San Francisco-based magazine of technology has been at it longer than just about anyone …
Discussion: @ceodonovan
 
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