Mediagazer: Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites (Katherine Rushton/Telegraph)

11:10 AM ET, February 19, 2013

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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites — Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. — If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark …

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Google isn't teaming up with credit card companies to block pirates' funding, sources say — Accusations of abetting piracy have plagued Google for years, whether because of illicit Android apps, search results for “free movie,” or ads placed on sites that may distribute copyrighted content without permission.

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Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Vivian Schiller: NBC News is Readying “Rich Journalism Destination” — NBC News is in the midst of the “reinvention” of its Web site which will launch this spring as a “rich journalism destination,” with enterprise, investigative reporting and a significant increase of “Web native video” …

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

The New York Times Launches Real-Time Ad Serving with Twitter Data — The New York Times has launched “Spark,” a product created by the Times' R&D lab that serves display advertising into stories as they are trending on Twitter, matched with the demographics of the users who “touch” …

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C. Custer / Tech in Asia:

A Shocking Expose of China's Black PR Industry Implicates Government Officials, is Quickly Deleted from the Web — Almost everyone knows about the public relations industry, but fewer people know about what in China is referred to as Black PR, the underground internet industry that has evolved with the spread of web 2.0 through China.

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Columbia Journalism Review:

Where the jobs are — How WYNC's data journalism efforts show new opportunities for journalists — There are probably few things that intimidate journalists like reams of data. Unemployment might be high on that intimidation list, but you could argue that that's a numbers issue, too.

Kit Eaton / Fast Company:

Data Suggests Mobile TV Viewing Figures Still Very Low — Mobile TV may be the next big thing for web-based TV, but it's not happening much yet. — A new survey by marketers Thinkbox in the U.K. suggests that that average TV viewer was consuming four hours and four minutes of television per day in 2012 …

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British Prime Minister Dismissive of BBC Strike — David Cameron said there were no grounds for Monday's strike by BBC journalists because the corporation remains well-funded after a license feel deal in 2010. — LONDON - David Cameron the British prime minister, who contrasted …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
As BBC strikes, Brits trust journalists less than Americans do

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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Google asks journalists to tone down story of “massive” Google Play security flaw — After reporting that Google Play now distributes Android app buyers' location and contact information to developers, a journalist was contacted by the search giant with a request to tone down the story, its headline and its SEO information.

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