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12:45 PM ET, November 27, 2015

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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Analyst: ESPN's loss of 7M subscribers since 2013 means about $650M less in affiliate revenue and an estimated $250M less in ad revenue  —  When Will ESPN's Subscriber Numbers Finally Hit Bottom?  —  One of the strongest parts of Walt Disney Corp.—in addition to its powerful hold …
Jeremy Borden / Columbia Journalism Review:
How a little-known, Uber-driving freelancer brought the lawsuit that forced Chicago to release a police shooting video  —  It was the moment Brandon Smith and legions of media had been waiting for: the city of Chicago's release of a damning video that showed a white police officer shooting …
Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK:
It is now illegal to make private copies of copyrighted media files in the UK after withdrawal of country's 2014 private copying exception regulations  —  Thanks to the music industry, it is illegal to make private copies of music—again  —  From now on, it's not just in Penzance that there are pirates.
Chris Buckley / New York Times:
China cuts journalist Gao Yu's sentence from seven to five years, allows her to serve sentence outside prison because of serious illness  —  China to Release Journalist Gao Yu From Prison Over Illness  —  BEIJING — Gao Yu, a well-known Chinese journalist serving a prison sentence on charges …
Suzan Fraser / Associated Press:
Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper editor-in-chief Can Dundar and reporter Erdem Gul jailed pending trial over their reports of government arms smuggling to Syria  —  2 Turkish journalists jailed over Syria smuggling reports  —  4 photos  —  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In new blow to media freedoms in Turkey …
Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal:
If Alibaba buys the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong-based paper would be under Chinese rule, possibly limiting its press freedom and coverage ability  —  Alibaba Newspaper Deal Would Test Political Sensitivities  —  Acquisition would put Hong Kong's South China Morning Post under mainland control
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Trust confirms BBC3 TV channel will be switched off and moved online by end of February 2016  —  BBC3 TV channel to be switched off by February, BBC Trust confirms  —  Corporation's governing body rubber-stamps decision to move youth-oriented channel online, but calls for more youth programming on BBC1 and BBC2
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Deezer finally launches a music-streaming family plan: $16/month for 6 people, only in France for now  —  It may be a little late to the party, but Deezer has finally announced a family subscription plan for its music-streaming service.  —  Available only to Orange subscribers in France initially …
Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:
Google received 15.7M copyright related URL takedown requests over one week in November, almost double from 8.2M last year  —  Google Received More Than 65 Million URL Takedown Requests In The Past Month  —  The number of URL copyright removal requests sent to Google continues to climb at a rapid rate.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
New York Times staff writer Sarah Nir offers to cover the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade each year to celebrate life on the anniversary of a near-fatal attack  —  For The New York Times' Sarah Maslin Nir, covering the Macy's Parade is a life-affirming tradition
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK publisher Future cuts losses to £2.3M, will split operations into media and magazine divisions  —  Publisher Future slashes losses and raises £3.3m to invest in digital  —  Company, which has shed 460 staff over two years in bid to reverse losses of £35m, to split operations into media and magazine divisions
 
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

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