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2:55 PM ET, August 13, 2014

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Jessica Coen / Jezebel:
Gawker reintroduces pending comments system to combat Jezebel's rape gif problem  —  What Gawker Media Is Doing About Our Rape Gif Problem  —  On Monday, we posted an open letter to the management of Gawker Media, our parent company, regarding an ongoing problem that we here at Jezebel …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Foreign correspondents are risking infection to cover the Ebola outbreak in West Africa  —  Covering contagion  —  In the lead feature on page one of Tuesday's New York Times, West African bureau chief Adam Nossiter toured what is said to be the “most devastated village” at the heart of the region's current Ebola outbreak.
Gianluca Mezzofiore / International Business Times:
Gaza Strip: Italian AP Journalist Simone Camilli Killed As Dud Israeli Missile Explodes  —  An undetonated bomb has exploded in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing five people, including Italian journalist Simone Camilli, an AP video journalist and producer.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
StyleHaul Next Big MCN Sale?  Amazon, Fox, Hearst Approach (Exclusive)  —  RTL-backed company has been approached about potential acquisition by Amazon, 21st Century Fox, Hearst and Condé Nast, according to sources  —  StyleHaul could be the next hot multichannel network to get snapped up by a big media company.
Christopher Heine / Adweek:
Twitter's Promoted Video Details Are Coming Into View  —  Could be a big lift to revenues  —  Twitter officially unveiled Promoted Video today as a beta product that could be a boon for its revenues when rolled out fully.  Specialized has tested the ad unit, and the bicycle manufacturer told Adweek …
Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Despite early hype, First Look is struggling to find a business model and a distinctive niche  —  First Look runs headlong into journalism's two big problems  —  Growing pains at the Omidyar/Greenwald venture  —  When Pierre Omidyar, the eBay billionaire, announced the creation …
Alex Byers / Politico:
Comcast and Time Warner pay total of $132K to sponsor dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Clyburn  —  Comcast, Time Warner Cable help honor Mignon Clyburn amid merger review  —  Comcast and Time Warner Cable are sponsoring a dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn at a time when the agency …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Baquet: Alissa Rubin in stable condition  —  New York Times reporter Alissa Rubin is in an intensive care unit in Istanbul and is “in good spirits, occasionally managing to laugh,” Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet tells staffers.  Adam Ferguson, the freelancer who was with Rubin …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Jeanne Cummings joins Bloomberg Politics project as head of Washington operations  —  Bloomberg Politics taps Cummings in D.C.  —  Jeanne Cummings, a deputy editor at Bloomberg News, has been tapped to serve as head of Washington operations for the Mark Halperin-John Heilemann-led Bloomberg …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Former Sun journalist Ben Ashford found not guilty after reading texts on stolen iPhone  —  Ben Ashford found not guilty after trawling stolen phone for flirty texts  —  Former Sun journalist walks free after being arrested as part of investigation into criminal breaches of privacy and hacking
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Spotify links up with BandPage to allow musicians to sell merchandise and exclusives directly to fans  —  Streaming music service Spotify has today announced a deal with BandPage that will allow artists to sell their music directly to listeners via the platform.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Adam Serwer is BuzzFeed's new national editor  —  Adam Serwer will become BuzzFeed's new national editor.  Serwer is currently a reporter at MSNBC and worked for Mother Jones before that.  —  Serwer will lead a small desk of “people whose beats kind of fall outside of the other things we have …
 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

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