Mediagazer: Reddit uses “free speech” to defend the site's unsavory uses while ignoring the victims (T.C. Sottek/The Verge)

11:30 AM ET, September 10, 2014

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

Guardian launching community events and voluntary membership programs from £15-£60 per month — Guardian Space & Guardian Membership, playing the physical/digital continuum — Can it be that the solution to newspaper companies' digital woes lies in the physical world?

Discussion: Guardian, @akshatrathi, @lloydshep, @michaelfredman, @mattlearmouth, @gallaghereditor and @jayrosen_nyu

Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:

welcome to Guardian Membership — The Guardian is much more than a business - for almost 200 years we have dedicated our resources to the kind of public service journalism that recently won a Pulitzer prize. By becoming a member you'll help support that ideal and, no doubt, have a great time in doing so

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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Celebrity gossip site TMZ extends reach and earns some credibility with scoops on NFL scandals — TMZ Broke Ray Rice, Donald Sterling and Jameis Winston Stories in 10-Month Span — Last November, TMZ broke the news that the Heisman Trophy candidate Jameis Winston was being investigated …

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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

N.Y.T. reporter: U.S. needs to pressure Europe on journalist ransoms — New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi told a crowd last night that the U.S. should be pressuring European countries to stop paying ransom to terrorist kidnappers. — The U.S. generally refuses to pay ransoms …

Reuters:
White House doesn't believe slain U.S. journalist was ‘sold’ to Islamic State

Discussion: Mediaite, International Business Times, International Business Times, The Times of Israel, FOX6Now.com, Politico and The Huffington Post

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Hacked Celeb Pics Made Reddit Enough Cash to Run Its Servers for a Month — If you saw Kate Upton or Jennifer Lawrence naked last week, there's a good chance you saw them on the social news site Reddit. The self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet” was one of the main hosts …

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Reddit uses “free speech” to defend the site's unsavory uses while ignoring the victims

Discussion: The Awl and @ma_franks

John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal:

U2, Apple and the Deal Behind Getting ‘Songs of Innocence’ Free of Charge — A decade after releasing “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,” U2 was front and center in a presentation that could have been called “how to hype a new tech product.” — Along with Apple's announcement …

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CNET:
Apple's iTunes scores U2's new album. You score it free.

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Viacom Closes $725 Million Acquisition of U.K.'s Channel 5 — It will start airing “SpongeBob” and the “Turtles” and send contestants of a new show back to the Stone Age — Viacom said Wednesday that it has closed its $725 million (£450 million) acquisition of British broadcaster Channel 5.

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Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Grooveshark no longer supports Chromecast following RIAA claim it infringes artists' copyright — Grooveshark's streaming music and radio service no longer supports casting to the big screen via Google's Chromecast dongle. — While support to cast “content licensed from thousands of artists …

Discussion: Complete Music Update, Softpedia News, TorrentFreak, RAIN News and hypebot

Wall Street Journal:

Google Seeks Views in Europe on Right to be Forgotten — Company Seeking Balance in Handling of “Complicated Issue” — Google Inc. executives embarked Tuesday on a seven-city tour of European capitals to discuss Europe's “right to be forgotten,” one of several fronts in which the U.S. search firm faces …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Bloomberg, PC Magazine, Reuters, WRAL Tech Wire, ctvnews.ca, Opposing Views, Independent.ie, Reuters, New York Times, The Drum, Wall Street Journal, Search Engine Land and Wall Street Journal

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Why Peter Wright should not be sitting on Ipso's complaints body — Is it not truly amazing that Peter Wright, the former Mail on Sunday editor, has been named as a member of the complaints committee at the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso)? — This is the man who …

Discussion: Daily Mail

Jane Martinson / Guardian:

New chair of BBC Trust to continue roles at HSBC and Pepsi — Rona Fairhead said she would ‘prioritise’ the BBC in her expected new role as the head of the BBC's governing body — Rona Fairhead, the government's preferred choice to chair the BBC Trust, is to continue her lucrative non-executive roles …

Discussion: Telegraph, @budgie, Telegraph, Guardian, The Independent and BBC

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Deezer launches in the US at $15/month with high quality streaming audio that works with Sonos — Deezer Joins a Crowded Music Subscription Market, with a High-End Pitch — If you want to spend $10 a month on a music subscription service in the U.S., there are plenty of people who are happy to take your money*.

Discussion: VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, @waltmossberg, Digital Journal, Mashable, Radio Survivor and Engadget

Reuters:

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner wants to double profits, seeks to buy new assets — Axel Springer CEO aspires to more than double profits — (Reuters) - German publisher Axel Springer's chief executive Mathias Doepfner aspires to more than double the publisher's core profit to 1 billion euros …

Discussion: Poynter

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Full memo from Politico CEO Jim VandeHei and editor-in-chief John Harris on European expansion

Discussion: FishbowlNY, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Politico, FishbowlDC, Washington Post, @atossaaraxia, @raju, The Huffington Post and The Daily Caller

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Politico partners with German publisher Axel Springer to launch European edition

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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:

In high-tech battle, Washington and Islamic State compete over hearts and minds — Yahoo News 4 hrs ago — While President Obama prepares to lay out his military strategy on Wednesday to bomb, “degrade” and ultimately “defeat” the Islamic State, U.S. government officials are already locked in an intense …

Discussion: @isikoff and @isikoff