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2:15 PM ET, December 2, 2015

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
App Annie: Spotify top-ranked music streaming app worldwide in Q3 2015, Pandora retains lead in US on iPhone and Android  —  Spotify Claims Streaming Music Throne Worldwide, But Pandora Is Still Top Service In U.S.  —  Spotify is the world's top streaming music service in terms of active users …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Columbia University journalism dean Steve Coll disputes Exxon Mobil's criticism of journalists who produced climate report  —  Columbia Disputes Exxon Mobil on Climate Risk Articles  —  The dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on Tuesday rebutted accusations by Exxon Mobil …
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Prince Charles requires outlets sign 15-page contract before interviews demanding preapproved questions and editorial oversight, may breach Ofcom rules  —  The 15-page contract that reveals how Charles tries to control the media  —  Prince Charles is demanding “North Korean-style” …
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
Cameron Barr named a managing editor at The Washington Post  —  Martin Baron, executive editor, made the following announcement today:  —  I am pleased to announce that Cameron Barr will become managing editor overseeing news and features.  —  All of you know Cameron as a driven, focused, and super-smart journalist.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Network veteran, Nick News chief Linda Ellerbee retiring  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Linda Ellerbee, a veteran newswoman who wrote an irreverent best-seller about her time on television and built a second career at Nickelodeon explaining tough stories to youngsters, says that she's signing off the air for good.
Jeff Stone / International Business Times:
Chinese Hackers Used Dropbox To Monitor Hong Kong Activists, Journalists: FireEye  —  Chinese hackers used malicious software to monitor journalists and activist groups involved in the Hong Kong protests this year, according to new research from the cybersecurity company FireEye.
Agence France-Presse:
Local Thai printer removes article from front page of The International New York Times about Thailand's flagging economy  —  Blank spaces replace NYT article on flagging Thai economy  —  Bangkok (AFP) - The International New York Times said its printer in Thailand removed an article …
FBI:
FBI opens beta test of eFOIA, offering online FOIA requests on dedicated website, requests limited to one per day  —  Try New eFOIA System  —  The FBI recently began open beta testing of eFOIA, a system that puts Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into a medium more familiar to an ever-increasing segment of the population.
Discussion: FedScoop
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
CNN to enter learning market with online English language service  —  Broadcaster aiming at international market seeking to learn ‘business-level’ English  —  CNN is to enter the learning market with the launch of an international online English language learning service.
Discussion: @cnnpruk
Samuel G. Freedman / Columbia Journalism Review:
The man who transformed how The New York Times covers the gay community  —  Midway through June of 1982, I was summoned from my usual post in the Connecticut bureau of The New York Times to spend two weeks doing a night shift in the legendary newsroom on West 43rd Street in Manhattan.
 
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
French journalist in China ‘intimidated by state newspapers’
Maria Sheahan / Reuters:
German magazine Der Spiegel is cutting one-fifth of its staff and adding a paywall, is considering launching a digital news service, other initiatives
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