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7:40 AM ET, November 30, 2015

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
‘MY BAD!’  Mike Allen issues mea culpa for proposed softball interview with Chelsea Clinton  —  Mike Allen, POLITICO's chief White House correspondent, this morning issued an apology for floating the possibility of a “no surprises” interview with Chelsea Clinton in 2013 during an email exchange with Clinton confidant Philippe Reines.
Discussion: Politico
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
After phone hacking scandal, UK tabloids dropped dubious reporting practices, now favor celebrity interviews, gossip, promoting owners' political agenda  —  Murdoch's British Tabloids Clean Up Their Acts  —  LONDON — A July article on a front page of The Sun on Sunday tabloid, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was a classic of its kind.
Discussion: Media Wire Daily
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Malaysia using 1948 sedition law to seize phones and prosecute government critics who use social media  —  Malaysia invokes British-era law to stifle critics' voices  —  KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Online critics of the Malaysian government would be well advised not to spend too much money on cellphones.
Washington Post:
South Africa's student protests saw hashtags and social media eclipse mainstream media like #BlackLivesMatter did in the US  —  The day mainstream media became old in South Africa  —  The date Oct. 21, 2015, will be remembered as the day mainstream media became old in South Africa.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with America's Test Kitchen's David Nussbaum on paywalls, social media, and videos  —  America's Test Kitchen, “the Consumer Reports of cooking,” wants to grow to new platforms  —  Many home cooks, when they think of Cook's Illustrated, think of the bow-tied, bespectacled Christopher Kimball …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
While networks benefit from TV show exposure on Hulu and other streaming services, producers worry widespread availability may hurt syndication value  —  Streaming Era Sets Off Battle Over TV Rights  —  Studios, networks, talent try to protect their interests in the emerging on-demand TV economy
Brendan James / International Business Times:
Profile of MSNBC host Chris Hayes, whose show All In has an increased viewership of 32% over the last year  —  Chris Hayes Is Still ‘All In’ At MSNBC, Even As Everyone Counts Him Out  —  “You want ratings; you want people to like you,” the host told International Business Times.  “You can lose yourself.”
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Analysts: it's not too late for Pandora to compete strongly with Spotify, YouTube, and Apple for on-demand paid streaming customers  —  Pandora's Rdio Acquisition Sets Stage for Epic Streaming Music Battle  —  The details behind Pandora's recently announced purchase of digital music service Rdio sound …
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Tor launches its first crowdfunding campaign as it seeks to be less reliant on US government funds  —  With US government as top donor, Tor Project looks to crowdfunding  —  Following up on goals set earlier this year, the Tor Project launched its first crowdfunding project today to expand …
Discussion: Naked Security
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The talk of the Web: How The New Yorker grew its digital audience by focusing on quality … It has been more than a year since The New Yorker took down its paywall and triggered a frenzied run on its archives.  Slate and others compiled lists of The New Yorker's greatest hits …
Discussion: @michaelrkingjr and @margaltes
Michele McLellan / Knight Digital Media Center:
Study of 287 local, independent news sites shows 60% are 5 years or older, demonstrating staying power  —  Local independent news operations demonstrate staying power  —  When I first started studying an emergent group of local online news startups in 2009, it was because I was skeptical …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Joe Weisenthal about Bloomberg's podcast Odd Lots and its daily online finance show, What'd You Miss?  —  Bloomberg TV's What'd You Miss? thinks of linear TV as “a source of content for online video”  —  What'd You Miss? is a daily, hour-long show from Bloomberg TV that airs …
Discussion: @jyarow
 
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Joe Zadeh / Noisey:
How Kane Robinson, who ran the obscure music forum Dancing Jesus, became the target of the UK's biggest piracy case
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Fusion announces distributed news team of 12 to work on platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Vine
Discussion: @digiday
Montreal Gazette:
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's sentence of 1K lashes suspended, pardon possible
Discussion: The National and CBC News
Politico:
Interview with Dan Peres, outgoing editor in chief of Details on his 15 years with the magazine
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
Mashable Shop Is a Native Ad That's Also an Online Store
Discussion: The Drum