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3:00 PM ET, December 8, 2013

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The Thorny Challenge of Covering China  —  HOW do major American news organizations write about a Communist country with the world's second-largest economy — a country that doesn't believe in press rights and that punishes tough-minded coverage?  —  Aggressively?  Cautiously?  Fearlessly?
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Meaning of China's Crackdown on the Foreign Press
Kathy Chu / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Media Firms Stymied in China
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Brian Stelter Officially Debuts as CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ Host  —  The hour included a brief segment looking at the conflict of interest of CNN's Chris Cuomo interviewing his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  —  Brian Stelter  —  Though he's appeared as a guest host since August …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico, Hill Reporters Get Rare Access For Hillary Clinton Book  —  NEW YORK — When CNN recently canceled a Hillary Clinton documentary, Charles Ferguson, the film's director, lashed out at the former secretary of state's aides.  —  Ferguson suggested that longtime Clinton protector Philippe Reines …
Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:
Of the 7,776 languages in use in the offline world, fewer than five percent exist online  —  How the Internet is killing the world's languages  —  Less than five percent of current world languages are in use online, according to a recent study by prominent linguist András Kornai …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Jessica Lessin talks about paywalls, The Information and the virtues of knowing who your audience is  —  Former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin got some attention when she left the newspaper six months ago to start a new online news venture, and this week she launched the project …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Profile: Time editor Nancy Gibbs, an insider navigating declining revenue at an iconic brand  —  Her ‘Time’  —  On a Thursday afternoon in October, Nancy Gibbs, who shattered a glass ceiling the previous month when she became the first woman to reach the top of Time's masthead …
Discussion: @cschweitz and @tmcgev, Thanks:@steverubel
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
We Wrote a Heartbreaking and Terrifying Post about Viral Content without Lists or GIFs.  Then You Clicked on It, and Magic Happened. … PinIt InstapaperPocketEmailPrint  —  As long as people have been publishing, they've been trying to figure out what will make large numbers of people burn …
Discussion: @fivethirtyeight and The Dish
Jack Shafer:
What's worse than sponsored content?  The FTC regulating it  —  What's more dangerous to consumer well-being, sponsored content or the intervention of the Federal Trade Commission?  On Wednesday, the agency held a conference, “Blurred Lines: Advertising or Content,” to “discuss native advertising,” as the New York Times put it.
Discussion: @bdeskin and PRNewser
Reuters:
Once piracy havens, China's Internet video websites turn police  —  (Reuters) - The website of China's biggest Internet video company Youku Tudou Inc was once a haven for illicit Hollywood blockbusters and hit South Korean soap operas, until it realised piracy really doesn't pay.
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Margaret Looney / IJNet:
Knight Lab's Joe Germuska: “We have to find room for the big experimental ideas”  —  What started as an idea for creating tools for local media in Chicago three years ago has evolved into an innovation hub for the global journalism and technology community.  —  The Knight Lab at Northwestern …
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Remnick: ‘New Yorker’ mulled biweekly route, once  —  Since news of New York's move to biweekly publishing in 2014 broke on Monday, media personalities have spun the decision two ways: as a promising flank of the magazine's digital advance and a dismal signifier of the industry's retreat from print.
Discussion: @nbj914
Jennifer Howard / Wired Campus:
Elsevier forces Academia.edu to take down research papers shared by their authors  —  Posting Your Latest Article?  You Might Have to Take It Down  —  Guy Leonard received an unpleasant surprise in his inbox early this morning: a notice from Academia.edu saying it had taken down a copy …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elsevier Continues Its Efforts To Stifle The Sharing Of Knowledge To Pump Up Its Own Profits
Robert Mahoney / Committee to Protect Journalists:
A chill over British press  —  A prime minister says a newspaper has damaged national security and calls for its editor to be brought before Parliament; his government tells the same paper there has been “enough” debate on an issue and sends its security officials into the paper's offices …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Asks Sinclair to Revise Plans to Use ‘Sidecar’ Companies  —  Broadcaster Proposed to Spin Off Several Stations in Move to Sidestep Agency Rules in Allbritton TV Deal … The Federal Communications Commission on Friday asked Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. to amend or withdraw its plans …
Discussion: TVNewsCheck.com
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Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:
Behind the FCC's Intervention in a $985 Million Local TV Deal
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 
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