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12:30 PM ET, December 12, 2014

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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Reveal Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication  —  The end result: kudos at the studio and an email to Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.”  —  New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd speaks during a taping of Meet the Press at the NBC studios.
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …
Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report:
Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure  —  NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google News is right to shut down in Spain in order to fight against the link tax and for the freedom of the web
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Why Publishing Stolen Sony Data is Problematic but Necessary  —  The more Sony Pictures data keeps leaking, the more my moral compass spins like a weather vane in a hurricane.  —  What just a week ago seemed such a clear-cut case of doing what my instincts have told me do to every other moment …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter users are more likely to watch TV, and to pay for it, new Ipsos study shows  —  Twitter Users Love TV So Much They'll Pay to Watch  —  The TV Industrial Complex is having a ratings problem, an advertising problem and a subscriber problem.  —  But if everyone used Twitter, those problems would go away!
PandoDaily:
Twitter suspends journalist's account after he publishes public document  —  A troubling story out of Berkeley tonight.  Local journalist Darwin BondGraham has had his Twitter account suspended after tweeting a document obtained under California's Public Records Act.
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Department of Justice may force 60 Minutes producer Richard Bonin to testify in terrorism case  —  Holder Faces Another Decision on Forcing a Reporter to Testify  —  With Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. facing a deadline over whether to force a reporter for The New York Times to reveal his sources …
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Japan's new state secrets law sparks concerns about governmental control over the press  —  Suffering a media free-for-all, Japanese press now has the government weighing in  —  In Japan this year, the reporters have become the reported.  —  It's seems there's been one journalism furor …
Telegraph:
Former News of the World features editor Jules Stenson pleads guilty to conspiracy to intercept voicemails  —  Jules Stenson admits phone hacking at News of the World  —  Ex-News of the World features editor pleads guilty at Old Bailey to intercepting voicemails over four years at newspaper
Discussion: Guardian, RTÉ and BBC
Soham Adwani / Tech in Asia:
Australian startup Inkl bundles paywalled stories from 7 news publishers for A$15/month, available outside US  —  Spotify for journalism?  This app wants to tackle the fragmented news market  —  The way we consume news in today's generation has changed in a way we couldn't possibly imagine.
Discussion: StartupSmart
Agence France-Presse:
Jakarta Post editor faces up to 5 years in blasphemy case over publication of ISIS cartoon  —  Indonesian editor accused of blasphemy over ISIS cartoon  —  The chief editor of a leading English-language newspaper in Muslim-majority Indonesia has been named a suspect in a blasphemy case …
 
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