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5:55 PM ET, November 3, 2013

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Mayer on the Talent Hunt for Tech Journalists (Even From AllThingsD!)  —  This weekend, a Yahoo recruiter tried to poach two of our fine AllThingsD reporters for what was described as a “new initiative within our Tech Vertical.”  —  According to the recruiter, who used LinkedIn for the outreach …
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 …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in ‘espionage’ and ‘terrorism’  —  (Reuters) - British authorities claimed the domestic partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald was involved in “terrorism” when he tried to carry documents from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden through …
Reuters:
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 …
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 …
Discussion: AllThingsD, The Verge and Boing Boing
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David Grossman / The Verge:   YouTube Live: a disastrous spectacle Google would like you to forget
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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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
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What does sustainability look like in nonprofit journalism?  —  What, exactly, does a healthy nonprofit news site look like?  —  If you're a national site like ProPublica, is the metric winning major awards and changing policy through your reporting?  If you're a state-focused site …
Discussion: Knight Foundation
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.
Discussion: @janinegibson
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.
Joe Strupp / Media Matters:
Veteran Journalists Criticize 60 Minutes For “Serious Problem” With Benghazi “Witness”  —  Journalism veterans and media ethicists are demanding answers from CBS News in light of the revelation that the key “witness” in 60 Minutes' recent report on the September 2012 terrorist attacks …
 
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