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7:25 AM ET, November 29, 2012

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
What you need to know about today's Leveson report on phone hacking, press regulation  —  The report of Lord Justice Brian Leveson's 16-month-long inquiry into “the culture, practices and ethics” of the British press has been released to select people this week, and will be made public today.
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Emily Bell / Guardian:
The Leveson inquiry is irrelevant to 21st-century journalism  —  The judge's findings will address the nefarious behaviour of newspapers but not the vast array of media on the internet  —  Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the internet abhors geo-specific regulation.
Vikram Dodd / Guardian:   Leveson warns Metropolitan police it faces criticism
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Problems With a Reporter's Facebook Posts, and a Possible Solution  —  Start with a reporter who likes to be responsive to readers, is spontaneous and impressionistic in her personal writing style, and not especially attuned to how casual comments may be received in a highly politicized setting.
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John Cook / Gawker:
New York Times Bureau Chief Isn't Chief of Her Own Tweets  —  Jodi Rudoren, the weirdly named Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, likes to keep in touch with friends and readers via the social networking web sites Twitter.com and Facebook.com, as literate human beings in the developed world are often wont to do these days.
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Jeff Bewkes Has No Comment On Zucker, But Says CNN Will Be ‘One Of The Fastest Growing Networks’  —  Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes declined to talk about the rumors of Jeff Zucker taking over CNN during a discussion at the Business insider Ignition conference Wednesday afternoon, only saying …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Dear Jeff: a Handy List of Contradictory, Surefire Paths to Success at CNN  —  Try to imagine Jeff Zucker's inbox on Wednesday morning.  —  Along with all the e-mails from friends and former colleagues asking “Is it true?”  — namely that he is the choice to run CNN Worldwide …
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Google Fires a Rare Public Salvo Over Aggregators  —  BERLIN — Google's imprint on daily life is hard to ignore in Europe, where it reportedly has 93 percent of the Internet search market, more than in the United States.  Yet when it comes to its lobbying of lawmakers, Google prefers a low profile.
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Madeline Chambers / Reuters:   German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Researchers mine 2.5M news articles to prove what we already know  —  A group of British researchers has published the results of a data mining experiment that analyzed nearly 2.5 million articles from 498 newspapers on criteria such as topic selection, writing style and sensationalism …
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Could Yahoo's move away from media be AOL's big chance?  —  Jon Miller, ex-CEO of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo's former interim CEO, think Yahoo's new direction under Marissa Mayer could open up an opportunity for AOL.  —  NEW YORK—Yahoo's new direction under CEO Marissa Mayer …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
How can we build a future of post-industrial journalism?  —  There's been a lot written over the past few years about the future of the news industry — how the rise of the web and social media have disrupted it, and how traditional players like the New York Times and others can recover …
Herbert J. Gans / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Citizen news: A democratic addition to political journalism  —  Journalism and the news media are supposed to be a bulwark for democracy.  But through their history, they have more often served as messengers for the high-level public officials whose actions and pronouncements they report regularly.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Atavist begins offering in-app subscriptions to its stories  —  Atavist, publisher of both technology and ebook-esque stories, is taking a cue from the world of magazines and newspapers by getting into the subscription business.  —  Starting today, readers can sign up for a three-month subscription …
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
MPAA's Chris Dodd Says Facebook Rumor Illustrates Need For Copyright Protection  —  If you're on Facebook, you've probably seen a statement loaded with legalese that users post hoping to create a copyright protection for their content.  It's based on a belief that the social network company changed …
Olivia Solon / Wired.co.uk:
Net-a-Porter CEO: It's no secret we're launching a major fashion magazine  —  Online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter is planning to launch a printed magazine within the next 12 months, according to CEO Mark Sebba, speaking at the Business Leaders Network's Making it Mobile event.
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Reporters Without Borders launches site for censored content  —  Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders has launched a website on which it says it will ‘post content that has been censored or banned or has given rise to reprisals against its creator’  —  Copyright: By rpongsaj on Flickr.
Los Angeles Times:
‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker sentenced to death in Egypt  —  The California man behind the “Innocence of Muslims” movie that triggered violence in the Middle East was sentenced to death Wednesday in absentia in an Egyptian court.  —  Mark Basseley Youssef was among the seven Egyptian Coptic Christians …
Ella Delany / The Daily Beast:
The Victims of the Penguin & Random House Merger: Literary Agents  —  The middlemen between writers and publishers are concerned they'll be squeezed by the upcoming merger of giants Penguin and Random House.  —  Literary agents are the middlemen between writers and publishing houses.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Publishing will expand to Europe; Kirshbaum to head U.S. operations  —  Amazon is expanding its original publishing efforts to Europe and is also shaking up its publishing division's structure, Publishing VP Jeff Belle announced in a letter to literary agents Wednesday (the full letter is below).
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Song writers remind Pandora: 'You're profiting from our songs'  —  Ahead of a congressional hearing about royalty rates paid by Web radio services, a group of songwriters sing their famous hits and notes that without them, Pandora and Web radio have nothing to sell.
Discussion: Hillicon Valley
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
You're Launching a Digital Music Start-Up? In 2012? Really?
 
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Porn Copyright Trolls Argue That Verizon Should Be Held In Contempt Of Court For Trying To Protect Its Users
Discussion: Plagiarism Today
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
More Than 90 Jobs to be Cut at Bloomberg TV Europe
Discussion: SocialTimes and Talking Biz News
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC Christmas strike threat grows
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Washington Times to cut staff for second time in three years [Updated]
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and FishbowlDC
John Koblin / Deadspin:
ESPN Reprimands SportsCenter For Accurately Sourcing A Story: “IMPORTANT: DO NOT CREDIT SPORTS BY BROOKS”
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Publicist confirms it: Fox News banned book critical of George W. Bush
Jim Romenesko:
Brian Tierney sued for using his name in violation of agreement
Discussion: Philly.com
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NLGJA president: ‘The AP is probably correct’ to discourage use of ‘homophobia’
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and Slate
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Anjali Mullany / Fast Company:
The Associated Press Stylebook Doesn't Approve Of The Words “Ethnic Cleansing”, “Islamaphobia”, “Homophobia”
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
Rosa Silverman / Telegraph:
News International's Tom Mockridge warns against state regulation
Discussion: Guardian
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Ready for His Close-Up: Ross Levinsohn to Join Zefr Board
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Erik Israelewicz, Editor of Le Monde, Dies at 58
Alex Weprin / FishbowlDC:
Don Graham: Biggest Mistake Was Promoting Brand Instead Of People, Like ‘Appallingly Young’ Ezra Klein
Discussion: TVNewser
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
McDonell moves from Time adviser to exit
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Melinda Henneberger / Washington Post:
Tom Ricks to MSNBC: You're just like Fox, only not as good at it