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1:20 PM ET, November 3, 2013

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Two French journalists abducted, killed in northern Mali  —  (Reuters) - Two French radio journalists were killed by gunmen in northern Mali on Saturday shortly after being abducted in the town of Kidal, French and Malian officials said.  —  The French government confirmed that 58-year old Claude Verlon …
Evie Nagy / Fast Company:
Wearab.ly teams up with NPR, Atlantic and NatGeo to turn RSS feeds into Google Glass Apps  —  Wear Your News: This Platform Turns Any RSS Feed Into A Google Glass App  —  As media companies race to adapt to their readers' increased reliance on smartphones and tablets …
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
YouTube Music Awards Are Readied for Webcast  —  “Does there really need to be another awards show?”  Spike Jonze recently wondered aloud.  “If there's going to be one, why?”  —  This was a reasonable sentiment that Mr. Jonze, the veteran director of music videos and feature films …
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David Grossman / The Verge:
YouTube Live: a disastrous spectacle Google would like you to forget  —  On the eve of its next attempt, has the company learned from its mistakes?  —  This Sunday, November 3rd, the world will experience the first annual YouTube Music Awards, hosted by Jason Schwartzman and streamed live from New York City.
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
YouTube to charge TV networks the same 45% of ad revenues it charges other content producers, ending favorable terms  —  YouTube to TV Networks: No More ‘Sweetheart’ Ad Deals for You!  —  Video Service Imposing 45% Ad Splits On All Partners, But Also Offering New Upside
Claudia Buck / Sacramento Bee:
Sacramento Press, community's online newspaper, is sold to new owner  —  Sacramento Press, the struggling online community newspaper, has been sold to David Terry, a local Internet marketing company owner.  —  Launched in October 2008, Sacramento Press grew to a staff of 24 who produced …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Broken news: struggling to find facts in the Twitter maelstrom  —  LAX shooting shows that the rules of retraction on Twitter are still unwritten — especially for old media  —  As with Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and countless other major stories, news of today's shooting …
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John Paul Titlow / Co.Labs:
The future of storytelling is a combination of text, moving images and interactive elements—all powered by a JavaScript library called D3.  —  For newsrooms, creating interactive stories can be painful—but readers are coming to expect them more and more.  As easily as they can wow readers …
Concurring Opinions:
On the NSA and Media Bias: An Extended Analysis  —  By Albert Wong and Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Information Society Project at Yale Law School  —  In a recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review, we reported that major US newspapers exhibited a net pro-surveillance bias in their “post-Edward Snowden” coverage of the NSA.
Louise Watt / Associated Press:
Chinese journalist tries to crowdfund his career  —  BEIJING (AP) — From his temporary home on a friend's sofa, Yin Yusheng hopes to craft a new kind of journalism in China, where the industry is widely seen as state-controlled and corrupt.  He wants to make his readers the boss — and that includes paying his salary.
 
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