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New York Times:
Google updates ToS allowing inclusion of users' names, photos and comments in web ads — Google Sets Plan to Sell Users' Endorsements — SAN FRANCISCO — Google, following in Facebook's footsteps, wants to sell users' endorsements to marketers to help them hawk their wares.
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Pew Research Journalism Project:
How Americans Get TV News at Home — Amy Mitchell, Mark Jurkowitz, Jodi Enda, and Kenny Olmstead — Even at a time of fragmenting media use, television remains the dominant way that Americans get news at home, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Nielsen data.
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David Carr / New York Times:
When Our News Is Gerrymandered, Too — I read an interview this past week with someone who gets his news from a narrow band of information providers. — He reads The Wall Street Journal, a really good newspaper that tilts right on its editorial page and sometimes in its news coverage.
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paidContent, @dougsaunders, @antderosa, @mathewi and bookforum.com
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Broadcasters petition Supreme Court in Aereo fight — Aereo's arrays of dime-sized antennae. — (Credit: Aereo) — This is a developing story and CNET will update as it learns more. — Television broadcasters Friday petitioned the US Supreme Court to get involved in their fight against Aereo …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV — Thirty-four percent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says. — Brian Brett, the Times' executive director of customer research …
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Digital Media Wire, Pew Internet, Mashable, GigaOM and Broadcasting & Cable
Guardian:
Spies and journalism: when worlds collide — The raging global discussion about the proper limits of surveillance of the past few months will become harder to ignore — After the man who hated Britain, welcome to the paper that helps Britain's enemies. You are reading it now.
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Guardian:
27 of the world's top editors challenge claim that the Guardian aids Britain's enemies
27 of the world's top editors challenge claim that the Guardian aids Britain's enemies
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Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:
This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner was officially notified through Twitter — It appears the Nobel Peace Prize committee couldn't get in touch with its latest laureate Friday morning — and, out of sheer desperation, decided to hound the winner on Twitter.
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Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Newspaper sales dive enters 8th straight year — As digital advertising sales soared 18% to a record high in the first six months of this year, the revenues of the publicly traded newspaper companies slipped an average of 5.5% to enter an eighth year of unabated decline.
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@hblodget and Softpedia News
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Government publishes final version of press regulation scheme with compromises on arbitration and Editors' Code Committee — The Government today published a revised blueprint for press regulation which is set to go for approval by the Privy Council at the end of the month.
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Guardian, Jon Slattery, ITV and Tom Watson MP
Dylan Byers / Politico:
White House defends transparency record after scathing CPJ report — The White House is defending its record of transparency after a scathing report found that the Obama administration's unprecedented efforts to control leaks have had a chilling effect on journalism.
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The Atlantic Wire, Free Press and Talking Points Memo
Jim Romenesko:
Survey: 40% of publishers would advise their kids to go into the newspaper business — Cribb, Greene & Associates, the oldest newspaper brokerage in the U.S., says its fall 2013 publisher confidence survey results “indicate that publishers are feeling better about the near term future than they did in 2012 …
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Phil Griffin: Cable News ‘In a sort of flux’ — This morning TVNewser attended a briefing to preview the new msnbc.com (more on that later), but while we were there, MSNBC president Phil Griffin decided to weigh in on the state of cable news, and of his own channel.
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Amazon Is Courting YouTube Networks for Short-Video Push — E-commerce Giant Widely Considered YouTube's Biggest Threat — Not content to contend only with Netflix and Hulu for long-form video content like movies and TV shows, Amazon is exploring a push into the short-form territory dominated by YouTube.
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Softpedia News, GeekWire, Mashable, Engadget and @pkafka
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Bill Weir Leaving ABC for CNN — The former “Nightline” anchor Bill Weir will join CNN next month in an as-yet undefined anchor role as well as the network's chief “innovation correspondent,” covering developments in the technology world. — CNN was making the announcement Friday afternoon …
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