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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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Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Ethics went out the window when media mobbed the San Bernardino shooters' apartment — Anderson Cooper has been punched while reporting in Egypt and experienced the worst of Hurricane Katrina, but even that couldn't prepare him for the sight of his own network and other news outlets barging …
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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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James David Dickson / Detroit News:
High school journalist receives $8K FOIA request bill — Student reporter hit with big bill after FOIA request — Plymouth — Leola Gee's number one lesson for her high school journalism students: Tell the truth, and deal with whatever comes. — But Gee never expected the quest for truth …
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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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Barnes & Noble's new CEO Ron Boire hopes to turn the fledgling retailer around by reshaping it into a lifestyle brand — Barnes & Noble Wants to Become More Than Books — When Ron Boire was growing up on a dairy farm in upstate New York, helping out around the property for $2 an hour, he saw new books as an out-of-reach luxury.
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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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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.
Chris Crum / WebProNews:
StumbleUpon shuts down its video recommendation service 5by, as it helps build new discovery platform Mix.com — StumbleUpon No longer Has A CEO, Is Part Of Expa's Mix.com (Also 5by Is Shutting Down) — It would appear that StumbeUpon is no longer a company with a CEO.
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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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