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10:25 AM ET, August 15, 2014

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Gary Strauss / USA Today:
Icahn takes 6.6 percent stake of Gannett, wants role in company's planned split  —  Carl Icahn places bet on Gannett  —  Activist investor Carl Icahn has taken 6.6% stake in Gannett, saying he wants a role in the company's planned split of its TV and newspaper divisions.
Will Oremus / Slate:
Peretti: deleted BuzzFeed posts were created before company chose to become journalistic  —  One Viral Media Company That Isn't Evil, Just Misunderstood  —  Thirty-Nine Listicles Whose Sourcing Is Shaky at Best.  —  One Writer Fired for Plagiarism.  —  Four Thousand Old Posts That Mysteriously Disappeared.
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why Obama's statement on reporters' arrests in Ferguson is hypocritical  —  Obama defends reporters in Ferguson, but demands compliance from James Risen  —  In a news conference Thursday addressing the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown and resulting unrest in Ferguson, MO …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
How the absence of tweets led journalists to figure out that two reporters had been arrested
Mike Williams / BBC:
Premier League warns posting videos of goals online breaks copyright laws  —  Premier League warns about posting goal videos online  —  The Premier League has told Newsbeat they're going to clamp down on fans posting unofficial videos of goals online.  —  Thousands of goal Vines were posted on social media during the World Cup.
New York Times:
Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions  —  Left, Whitney Curtis for The New York Times; right, Bill Hudson, via Associated Press  —  Danny Lyon, one of the photographers whose work came to define the civil rights upheaval in the South in the 1960s …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
“Meet the Press:” Gregory out, Todd in  —  NBC will name Chuck Todd the new host of “Meet the Press” as early as Thursday afternoon, according to people with direct knowledge of the network's plans.  —  The sources confirmed widespread speculation that David Gregory, the moderator …
Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:
China's Alibaba Discovers Possible Accounting Fraud in Newly Formed Film Unit  —  Alibaba Pictures, the recently formed film production arm of the e-commerce and entertainment giant says it won't be able to publish interim results on time  —  Alibaba Pictures, the recently formed film …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Amazon Continues Its Higher Ed Book Sales March At Purdue, Offers Staffed On-Campus Pickup  —  Amazon debuted a program that seemed both inevitable and unthinkable earlier this year, depending on your perspective, when it teamed with UC Davis for a unique school-specific storefront that provided …
Discussion: GalleyCat
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK consumer magazines lost nearly 1m print sales in first half of 2014 ABC  —  Sales of the hundreds of paid-for weekly and monthly titles fell 4.4% compared with previous six months, according to latest healthcheck  —  Music magazine New Musical Express has suffered another slump in its print sales.
Discussion: Guardian, @merciecaltd and @raju
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson eligible for move from Belmarsh prison  —  Ex-News of the World editor classified as posing no risk to society, clearing way for transfer from high-security institution  —  Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former director of communications, looks set to be moved …
Discussion: @neilwallis1 and mUmBRELLA
Alejandro Davila Fragoso / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Press freedom groups file petition to halt legal action against N.Y. Times reporter  —  WASHINGTON — For six years James Risen, a reporter of The New York Times, has been battling prosecutors who want him to identify an anonymous source.  And despite his setbacks, he's willing to keep fighting.
Hollywood Reporter:
Xbox Shops Entertainment Studio to Warner Bros.  —  Microsoft's TV production arm might not be gone for good  —  Microsoft may have decided to shutter its nascent Xbox Entertainment Studios but it's not necessarily game over for the Santa Monica studio.  —  Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter …
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Australian ABC faces more cuts amid major restructure, says Managing Director Mark Scott  —  ABC faces more cuts amid major restructure, says Mark Scott  —  Managing director says ‘significant decisions’ on funding priorities will follow once Canberra makes budget clear
Discussion: mUmBRELLA and ABC
Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic Online:
Ad-supported web led to targeting and surveillance as a default; let's try again, with fees for service  —  The Internet's Original Sin  —  Ron Carlson's short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths.
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Why BuzzFeed is expanding with new Distributed division
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Bill Shine, Brian Jones to Take Expanded Roles at Fox Business
Discussion: TVNewser and Wall Street Journal, Thanks:@bluechoochoo
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Racist content forces Thought Catalog to put barriers between contributors and Twitter
John Herrman / The Awl:
How the influential Drudge Report covered police shooting and ensuing unrest in Ferguson, Mo.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Washington Post
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
DISH TV Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments
Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:
NBC selling African American news and politics site The Grio back to its founders
Discussion: FishbowlDC