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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Journalists swarm San Bernardino shooters' apartment, some broadcast live; MSNBC later says it regrets showing ID cards and photos — News crews swarm San Bernardino suspects' apartment — In an unusual pieces of live television, news crews swarmed into the home of the alleged attackers in the San Bernardino shooting.
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New York Times:
Reporters and editors discuss their strategies for covering mass shootings amid familiar storylines — The News Media's Grim Playbook on Mass Shootings — On Wednesday at 2:28 p.m., the CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin was in a split-screen conversation with a network legal correspondent …
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
The New York Times is running an editorial, “The Gun Epidemic”, on its front page Saturday, the first editorial on its front since 1920 — Gun Debate Yields Page 1 Editorial — The New York Times is running an editorial on its front page on Saturday, the first time the paper …
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John Herrman / The Awl:
How and why access to public figures has changed, shifting power away from the media, and where to go from here — Access Denied — Earlier this year a young employee at a celebrity magazine explained to me a problem. The magazine was doing reasonably well, as was its website.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS makes case to FCC that it has a right to block online streams for customers of specific cable providers amid carriage fights — CBS Defends Right to Restrict Access to Online Streams — To hold otherwise, it tells the FCC, would risk broadcasters refusing to put content online in the first place.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Univision postpones IPO planned for 2015, board leaves options open for early 2016 — Univision Postpones IPO — Company cites lackluster recent performance of media-company stocks — Univision Communications Inc., owner of the country's dominant Spanish-language broadcaster …
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Jacob Bryant / Variety:
Turner and entertainment firm WME/IMG create eSports league, ELeague, to be broadcast on TBS — Turner, WME/IMG Christen New TBS eSports League — ELeague, which begins in 2016, will be the first league to present eSports on a fully distributed national television platform.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Car bomb kills journalist Hindia Haji Mohamed of Radio Mogadishu and Somali National TV — Car bomb kills broadcast journalist in Somalia — New York, December 3, 2015—A Somali journalist with state-run media was killed today in Mogadishu when a bomb blew up her car, according to news reports.
Eric Barnett / The Official Twitch Blog:
Twitch app now available for Android TV, offers viewing of live and recorded video, ability to follow channels and games — Couch Potatoes Rejoice! Twitch Comes To Android TV. — Android fans get ready, we've got something awesome coming your way. Starting today, you'll be able …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Rdio to lay off 123 by December 31, over 50% of its employees, following Pandora acquisition; Pandora says it has given job offers to around 100 Rdio employees — Rdio is laying off more than half of its employees following Pandora acquisition — Online radio company Pandora's $75 million acquisition …
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Associated Press:
China issues rules banning dishonesty in science publishing — BEIJING (AP) — After a series of scandals, Chinese regulators overseeing the field of academic publishing for scientific articles have issued rules explicitly banning dishonest practices. — The directive, dated Nov. 23 …
Damaris Colhoun / Columbia Journalism Review:
Social media censorship in Bangladesh hints at long-term problems for publishers — Two weeks have passed since the government in Bangladesh blocked access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, and other social media sites. In Dhaka, some people have crowded into hotel lobbies to access private networks …
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