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4:30 PM ET, August 31, 2014

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Hollywood has worst summer since 1997 as US summer ticket sales decline 15% from 2013  —  Movies Have Worst Summer Since 1997  —  LOS ANGELES — American moviegoers sent a clear message to Hollywood over the summer: We are tired of more of the same.  —  But don't entirely blame the sequels and superheroes.
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
A&E Networks agrees to pay $250M for a 10% share of Vice Media, valuing it at $2.5B
Global Voices:
In Serbia, press oppression takes the form of cyber attacks on news sites  —  Two Months After Flooding, Digital Freedoms in Serbia Are Still in Trouble  —  There's a worrying trend in Serbia's digital world.  Media websites are increasingly the target of mysterious technical attacks …
Miranda Prynne / Telegraph:
Businesswoman Rona Fairhead the preferred choice for next BBC Trust chairman  —  Former Financial Times Group chief executive Rona Fairhead is named as the government's favoured candidate to take over as BBC Trust chairman  —  A leading British businesswoman has been named …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Yep, BuzzFeed Is Building A Games Team  —  If you like BuzzFeed's quizzes and interactive projects like its Game Of Thrones name generator, congratulations, you're probably going to be seeing more of them.  If you think they're all annoying gimmicks, well, uh, you're going to be seeing more of them anyway.
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
OWN's YouTube Partnership Pays Off With Digital Series (Exclusive)  —  Celebrity guests will ask the question “Who am I?”  —  The Oprah Winfrey Network has been working out of YouTube Space LA for more than six months to experiment with digital formats and online talent.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Pakistani journalists shot dead in attack on news agency office  —  Three staff working in a Pakistani news agency were shot dead when two gunmen burst into their office in Quetta, south-west Pakistan.  —  One of the murdered trio was Irshad Mastoi (aka Arshad Mustoi), 34, secretary general of Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ).
Leo Kelion / BBC:
Flickr gaining 14M historic images extracted from 2M public domain books in Internet Archive  —  2.6m historic pictures posted online  —  The project has resulted in even more pictures of cats being put on to the internet  —  An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historic copyright-free images.
Anya Schiffrin / Mother Jones:
Why We're In A Golden Age of Global Investigative Journalism  —  Around the world, muckrakers are taking corrupt governments and businesses to task.  —  In our world, the news about the news is often grim.  Newspapers are shrinking, folding up, or being cut loose by their parent companies.
Richard Smirke / Billboard:
U.K. Group Rallies Musicians, Writers and Performers to Fight Government Cuts  —  Newly formed U.K. protest group Artists' Assembly Against Austerity are calling on musicians, writers, artists and performers to voice their opposition against government cuts in public and voluntary services.
Eric Enge / Search Engine Land:
It's Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results  —  After three years the great Google Authorship experiment has come to an end ... at least for now.  —  Today John Mueller of Google Webmaster Tools announced in a Google+ post that Google will stop showing authorship results …
 
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

Alphabet:
Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5%; GOOG jumps 10%+

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