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3:05 PM 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 …
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
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.
Discussion: @howardbeck
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 …
Discussion: @cjr
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 …
Discussion: @jackshafer
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 …
Discussion: @digiday
 
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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
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Deezer finally launches a music-streaming family plan: $16/month for 6 people, only in France for now
 

 
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
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