Mediagazer: Dish and CBS reach deal after Thanksgiving NFL blackout (Thuy Ong/The Verge)

11:55 AM ET, November 25, 2017

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Ajit Pai's proposal to kill net neutrality argues the FCC should not have tried to stop Comcast from blocking BitTorrent in 2008 — This is what happens when you're honest about killing net neutrality — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released his proposal to kill net neutrality today …

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Thuy Ong / The Verge:

Dish and CBS reach deal after Thanksgiving NFL blackout — Terms were undisclosed — For some satellite subscribers, a standoff between Dish and CBS over a carriage agreement meant no traditional NFL on Thanksgiving, an unforgivable slight to some. But both companies have now reached …

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Louise Matsakis / Motherboard:

Russia tries to control news on Yandex by making aggregators responsible for content and publishing pro-Kremlin stories across news sites to trick algorithms — Google said it would demote Russia Today and Sputnik, but the Russian government has tried to control what news appears on Yandex for years.

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Graham Ruddick / The Guardian:

UK ex-minister urges CMA to reject Sky takeover citing Murdoch's excessive political influence and how News Int'l CEO Brooks spoke of “partnership” with Cameron — Former minister suggests deal involved appointment by prime minister David Cameron of Andy Coulson, former News of the World editor, to position at No 10

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:

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Eve Fairbanks / BuzzFeed:

Mark Halperin and imitators portrayed Washington as an incomprehensible game driven by micro-scoops and access to insiders, rather than a city for all Americans — Reports of sexual harassment destroyed his reputation and his career. But I want to talk about the deeper, subtler …

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Shaya Tayefe Mohajer / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at the LA Times' long history of anti-labor owners, as uncertainty at the paper fuels a newsroom effort to unionize with NewsGuild-CWA — Union signs adorn the newsroom. Photo by Matt Pearce, via Twitter. — The successful formation of a union at the Los Angeles Times …

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Sahil Patel / Digiday:

AJ+ looks to serialized content on YouTube to increase retention; average video view duration has increased by about 3 minutes in the last three months — Al Jazeera's AJ+ was one of the first distributed media brands to quickly build an audience off the back of Facebook with short …

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