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10:50 AM ET, November 29, 2015

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Ken Doctor / Politico:
Sources: Apollo Global Management approached Tribune Publishing about a sale about a month ago, but Tribune has been “non-responsive”  —  Apollo seeks purchase of Tribune — and possible California sell-off  —  Is Rupert right?  —  Friday afternoon, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch tweeted …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Rupert Murdoch tweets that Tribune Publishing is about to be sold, with Los Angeles Times going to Eli Broad  —  Murdoch tweets that LA Times about to be bought  —  Newspaper owner and noted Twitter user Rupert Murdoch is hearing that the Los Angeles Times newspaper is about to change hands.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why the media won't say Donald Trump is lying  —  Just north of the campus of Ohio State is a bar called The Library.  It does not take a college student long to recognize the utility of that name; a parent calls and asks where you are and you can simply say, “The Library,” …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Twitter removes share counts in sharing buttons, but publishers say data was important internally and as a signal to readers  —  Frustrated publishers to Twitter: Give us our share counts back  —  It seems like Twitter and other social platforms are always making changes to their platforms …
Joe Zadeh / Noisey:
How Kane Robinson, who ran the obscure music forum Dancing Jesus, became the target of the UK's biggest piracy case  —  How a Kid Running an Obscure Music Forum Became the Target Of the UK's Biggest Ever Piracy Case  —  It's 5pm on a Friday and Kane Robinson is sat in his parents home in North Shields …
Arik Parnass / Medium:
How the role of a daily sports beat writer has evolved over the years and where it is headed in the age of instant access and automated game recaps  —  The Changing Beat  —  Once the province of beat writers and their “exclusive access,” the sports media landscape keeps shifting.
Elizabeth Dickinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Syria's Orient TV, which broadcasts from unmarked offices, uses activist correspondents, and has been a target for ISIS  —  Syria's media war  —  A photograph taken from Suruc district of Sanliurfa, Turkey, near Turkish-Syrian border crossing shows journalists work at Turkish side during …
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Mp3.com founder Michael Robertson launches OnRadio, which lets you search for and play songs from 100K+ online radio streams  —  Mp3.com Founder Launches Radio Search Service, Talks Copyright  —  Michael Robertson clearly enjoys going up against corporations much larger than his …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Fusion announces distributed news team of 12 to work on platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Vine  —  Fusion has a 12-person distributed news team for platforms  —  If the future will be a distributed one, Fusion wants to make sure it's prepared.  —  The digital news site …
Montreal Gazette:
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's sentence of 1K lashes suspended, pardon possible  —  Saudi blogger Raif Badawi to be pardoned: Swiss government  —  A jailed Saudi blogger is having his sentence of 1,000 lashings suspended, the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs told newspaper La Liberté.
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Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
Mashable Shop Is a Native Ad That's Also an Online Store  —  Visa Will Sponsor Shop to Promote Visa Checkout  —  BtoB marketing requires cutting-edge sophistication to reach clients in real time.  —  Digital publishers are looking for all kinds of alternatives to the traditional banner ad.
Discussion: The Drum
 
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James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
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