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2:25 PM ET, November 22, 2013

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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at AJ+, Al Jazeera's upcoming online news network  —  Across from San Francisco's AT&T Park stadium, a small group of news junkies is working on building a different kind of startup.  —  The first thing you notice when entering their building …
Discussion: Politico and BuzzFeed
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Almost quarter of shareholders at BSkyB oppose chief's £7m pay  —  Agm revolt after advisory services flagged concerns but BT challenge on sport not raised at brief meeting  —  Almost a quarter of BSkyB's shareholders rebelled against the £7m pay package of chief executive Jeremy Darroch …
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Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:
James Murdoch Re-Elected to BSkyB Board  —  Chase Carey, president of 21st Century Fox, which owns a 39 percent stake in the U.K. pay TV giant, is also among the directors retaining their board seats.  —  LONDON - 21st Century Fox deputy COO James Murdoch is keeping his seat on the board …
Discussion: Telegraph, Politico, Guardian and Variety
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck:
Behind Scripps' TV Paywall Strategy In Cincy  —  E.W. Scripps-owned WCPO in Cincinnati on Thursday announced that it will launch a digital subscription model around its premium content in January.  The TV paywall is unprecedented and faces an uphill battle to win over consumers who align broadcast television content with being free.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Cincinnati TV station plans paywall on its website
Discussion: NetNewsCheck
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Long-form publisher Matter stops charging for articles  —  Matter, which had adopted a micro-payments model when it launched a year ago, was bought by blogging platform Medium earlier this year  — Read more  —  Other top stories  —  Also on Journalism.co.uk...
Discussion: Medium and Gigaom
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Cable Has Reached Out to Comcast to Discuss Deal  —  The Two Cable Firms Are Not in ‘Active Discussions’ … Time Warner Cable Inc. has reached out to Comcast Corp. to discuss a possible combination in recent months, in an effort by Time Warner Cable to head off a bid …
Discussion: CNBC and Los Angeles Times
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time Inc. expected to file IPO offering documents today, revealing detailed financials  —  Time to lift its veil  —  Time Warner is expected to file its initial public offering documents for the spinoff of its Time Inc. publishing division Friday, sources said.
Business Insider:
Here's Why Maria Bartiromo Is Leaving CNBC For FOX Business  —  The financial media world was stunned this week when Drudge Report broke the news that Maria Bartiromo would be leaving CNBC for FOX Business Network.  —  Bartiromo, affectionately known as the “Money Honey,” has been a fixture at CNBC for two decades.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
BBC:
Tim Berners-Lee says ‘surveillance threatens web’  —  Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the democratic nature of the net is threatened by a “growing tide of surveillance and censorship”.  —  The warning came as he launched his World Wide Web Foundation's annual web index report, tracking global censorship.
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Twitter Adds Advertising Tool to Target TV Conversations  —  Twitter Inc. (TWTR) added a tool for advertisers that will let them target users who are posting about television shows, seeking to capitalize on the way people use its microblogging service.  —  The feature will allow networks …
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Magazine Readership Inches Upward  —  Despite a slight decline in overall magazine circulation in the first half of this year, the number of magazine readers in the U.S. is actually up slightly, according to the latest GfK MRI's Survey of the American Consumer, which tracks print and digital magazine readership.
Discussion: @karenmcgrane and @yappelbaum
Patrick Goldstein / Los Angeles Magazine:
Hollywood trades and the fierce competition to be first  —  Pulp Friction  —  Time was, Hollywood had two “trades” that covered all things entertainment.  Now it has has four, and the competition for news, ads, and readers is down and dirty, 24 hours a day  —  Remember how simple it used to be to stay informed?
Tony Manfred / Business Insider:
Here's The Glowing Story About The Qatar World Cup That ESPN Doesn't Want You To Read  —  Amid claims that Qatar is using “modern day slavery” to construct infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup, ESPN writer Phil Ball went on an “all-expenses paid trip” to the country and wrote an overwhelmingly positive story about it.
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Imax CEO Plans to Double Theaters in China in Five Years  —  Imax Corp. Chief Executive Richard Gelfond said he plans to more than double the big-screen theater company's count in China over the next five years as it expands in the fastest-growing film market in the world.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Natan Edelsburg / Lost Remote:
Guided by second screen trends, REVOLT.tv rolls out interactive music site designed by Huge  —  Increasingly, social TV and music are mingling.  Last week, we wrote about Bravo's partnership this season with Spotify, and on Tuesday, the music network REVOLT debuted the redesigned www.revolt.tv.
Discussion: PRNewser and AppNewser
Greg Bishop / New York Times:
New Territory, and New Challenges, for HBO in Macau Prizefight  —  MACAU — The boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios will start at the usual time in the United States (Saturday, around midnight Eastern), will be broadcast on HBO pay-per-view and will look, if all goes well, identical to any other major prizefight.
Andrew Lapin / Current.org:
University board approves St. Louis Public Radio merger with St. Louis Beacon  —  The University of Missouri System's Board of Curators approved a merger Nov. 22 between St. Louis Public Radio and the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit news site.  —  Under the terms of the merger …
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Speculation Mounts for Hugo Lindgren's Successor  —  TIMES IN FOR A CHANGE: It's very rare when a slew of high-profile journalism jobs open up at the same time at arguably the highest-profile newspaper in the country.  It's even more unusual when two of those jobs relate to fashion journalism.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
How Bravo Is Crunching Facebook Data to Lift ‘Real Housewives’ Repeat Ratings  —  Cabler uses social giant's new keyword search feature to glean factoids for ‘social edition’ rebroadcasts  —  Bravo is one of the first TV networks to drink from Facebook's data fire hose …
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Why Cable Networks Will Keep Paying Through the Nose for Broadcast Reruns  —  FXX's deal last week to show “The Simpsons” in syndication set a record for the market in TV reruns with a cost in the ballpark of $750 million.  —  Cable networks have never been shy to pay top dollar for broadcast hits.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
White House press corps spars with deputy press secretary over photo access  —  White House-media relations hit new low  —  White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest got aggressive with the White House press corps on Thursday as he defended the administration from allegations …
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Marwaan Macan-Markar / The Irrawaddy Magazine:
With Digital TV, End Looms for Thailand's Broadcasting Monopolies
Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press:
Washington Times Sues Homeland Security Over Reporter's Notes
Discussion: Washington Times and Poynter
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
Livefyre Buys Social App Provider Realtidbits
Natasha Tynes / IJNet:
Interactive map uses crowdsourcing to record attacks on journalists in Iraq
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Discussion: TeleRead