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Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
Sources: Xbox Live to remove Gold requirement for Netflix, Hulu — Multiple sources confirm internal efforts to make long-demanded paywall change. — We can report that multiple sources within Microsoft have been briefed on plans to make a long-awaited change to the Xbox Live Gold paywall for streaming media services.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Katherine Goldstein is the new editor of Vanity Fair's website — Katherine Goldstein will be the new editor of Vanity Fair's website, VF.com, Vanity Fair said in a press release. … Goldstein, who is currently director of social media and traffic at Slate, worked at the Huffington Post before that.
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FishbowlNY and @poynter
Reuters:
Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet — People can ask Google to delete sensitive information from its Internet search results, Europe's top court said on Tuesday. — The case underlines the battle between advocates of free expression and supporters of privacy rights …
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Guardian, Search Engine Land, Washington Post, @emilybell, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, @infomgmtexec and The Loop
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Hunger-striking Al-Jazeera journalist is near to death — Jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah el-Shamy, who has been on hunger strike in Egypt for more than 100 days, is near to death according to his doctor. — “He has started to have impaired liver and kidney function,” said the doctor, Mohamed Osama el-Homsi.
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Poynter, Al Jazeera English, MWC News, @jmalsin, The Huffington Post and Daily News Egypt
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Paul Farrell / Guardian:
Peter Greste gains support for release from prominent Egyptians
Peter Greste gains support for release from prominent Egyptians
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@amyfeldtmann and VICE News
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Associated Press polices story length — Citing a “sea of bloated mid-level copy,” Associated Press Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano last week instructed fellow editors at the wire service to limit most “daily, bylined digest stories” to a length of between 300 and 500 words.
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Poynter, Washington Post, Techdirt, @macloo, @tcarmody, @tcarmody, Guardian and The Huffington Post
Agence France-Presse:
Reuters reporters face arrest in Thailand over Pulitzer-winning story — Pulitzer reporters may face arrest in Thailand: police — Reporters with the Reuters news agency could face arrest in Thailand in connection with a Pulitzer Prize-winning article alleging Thai military involvement in people smuggling, police said Monday.
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Poynter, Bangkok Post and Phuket Wan
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Slate's curated links are actually paid for ads from content recommendation engine Outbrain — That BBC link on Slate is really an ad — What you're not told about apparently curated links — The big paradox for journalism on the internet is that the medium offers so many technical advantages …
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
Programs on Demand, Just for PBS Members — As television viewers increasingly turn to video on demand to watch shows when they want, PBS and its local stations plan to follow them, but with a twist: They are creating a streaming video service that will be available only to members of local PBS stations.
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The New York Observer
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Former editorial chief of NowThis News Ed O'Keefe joining CNN as VP of CNNMoney & Politics — CNN wants to learn startup tricks — It used to be that news networks were most proud of poaching talent from other broadcasters. Nowadays, they're most proud of plucking from the ranks of buzzy startups.
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Re/code, TVNewser, @craigsilverman, @nowthised and @etanowitz
Adriana Lee / ReadWrite:
Goodbye, TV Channels—And Hello, TV Apps — When I was a kid, my brother graciously taught me what a half-Nelson was. It was a lesson learned from our nightly wrestling matches over the remote control, which was essentially the scepter in our little game of thrones.
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@rww
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
YouTube shuts down public RSS feeds of user subscriptions — Easily getting your YouTube videos into an RSS reader is no longer supported. — If you're a news junky, you probably use an RSS reader like Feed.ly to keep up with stuff on the Web. One of the nicest ways to consume YouTube subscriptions …
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@davewiner, @gruber, gHacks Technology News, @codepo8 and @violetblue
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast and Turner Ink VOD, Ad Pact for Current and Past Seasons — Comcast, looking to bulk up its catch-up lineup against Netflix, reached a deal with Turner Broadcasting System to provide TV customers complete current and prior seasons of the programmer's shows, which also covers advertising in the VOD content.
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