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9:45 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.
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 …
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,” …
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 …
Discussion: VICE
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
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.
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 …
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 …
Politico:
Interview with Dan Peres, outgoing editor in chief of Details on his 15 years with the magazine  —  The 60-second interview: Dan Peres, outgoing editor in chief of Details magazine  —  POLITICO: The news that Details was closing was announced on Wednesday, and you're one of several people …
 
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Montreal Gazette:
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's sentence of 1K lashes suspended, pardon possible
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Didi Tang / Associated Press:
China sentences activist Yang Maodong, known as Guo Feixiong, to six years in prison after his 2013 protests against censorship
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
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK publisher Future cuts losses to £2.3M, will split operations into media and magazine divisions
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Deezer finally launches a music-streaming family plan: $16/month for 6 people, only in France for now
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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
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
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Trust confirms BBC3 TV channel will be switched off and moved online by end of February 2016
 

 
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George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Ryan Browne / CNBC:
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