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Frances Robinson / Wall Street Journal:
Google Faces Challenges in Europe After Privacy Ruling — Surprise Decision Will Have Implications for Privacy Throughout Europe — BRUSSELS—Individuals can ask Google Inc. to remove links to news articles, court judgments and other documents in search results for their name, the European Union's highest court said Tuesday.
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Digital Trends, SlashGear, Fortune, Agence France-Presse and bizjournals
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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 …
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
RIP Camille Lepage, French photojournalist killed in Central African Republic — On Tuesday, the office of the French president confirmed the death of Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old French photographer, who was killed while working in the war-torn Central African Republic.
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BuzzFeed, Committee to Protect …, @photoshelter, Al Jazeera America, @anupkaphle and PetaPixel
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Reuters:
French journalist murdered in Central African Republic: Hollande — (Reuters) - A French journalist has been murdered in Central African Republic, President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement on Tuesday, the first Western reporter to be killed in the country since France sent troops there in December.
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Guardian, Global News, @erinmcunningham, The Huffington Post, @a2linefrancois, @williamsjon, @rtlfrance, PetaPixel, The Week and Mashable
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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Xbox Wire, Consumerist, Variety, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Cinema Blend, WebProNews, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, PC Advisor, VG247, @briantong, The Verge, Polygon, Mashable, Pocket-lint, Geeky Gadgets, UPROXX, VG247, @mrgobert, @pkafka, SlashGear and Glass
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
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
NYT photographer constructs backpack kit with 4 modems to stream photos live to the newsroom — Times photo staffer's invention: the streaming backpack — Back during the 2012 presidential campaign, New York Times photographer Josh Haner was right at the scrum, trailing presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney …
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Poynter, @harrisj and The Newspaper Guild
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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Al Jazeera English, Poynter, 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
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Texas Tribune launches its new combination op-ed page/sponsored content pitch … We told you back in November that the Texas Tribune — as successful a news nonprofit, pound for pound, as exists in this country — was trying to get a piece of that sponsored content pie with something called TribTalk.
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TribTalk
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
FCC considers treating cable firms like utilities in net neutrality debate — US regulator has faced criticism after it appeared to suggest it was willing to create a ‘fast-lane internet’ for those who can pay — The top lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission confirmed on Tuesday …
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Reuters, Washington Post, @fcc, @gigibsohnfcc, @b_fung, @sensanders, SPIN, Associated Press and The Verge
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 …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Quartz pushes the experimental news envelope by using Dave Winer's outliner software — There are all kinds of experiments going on in digital media, from crowdfunding projects like Beacon Reader to mobile-first apps like Circa, but one of the most consistently experimental sites around is Quartz …
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@kevinokeefe and Poynter
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, @nowthised, @etanowitz and @craigsilverman