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12:25 PM 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?
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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
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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Edmund Lee / Re/code:
MTV, Comedy Central To Show Up on Sony's Internet-TV Service  —  Sony just got one step closer to selling live television over the Web.  —  The hardware and entertainment company cut a deal with Viacom to sell 22 of its cable networks over the Internet, the first programmer to come on to Sony's still-theoretical service.
Discussion: The Wrap and Press Release
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 …
Discussion: @mlcalderone
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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 …
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 …
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Aoife White / Bloomberg:
Google Right-to-Be-Forgotten Roadshow Rebuffs Questions  —  Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks during an advisory council about The Right to be Forgotten at Casa de America on Sep. 9, 2014 in Madrid  —  Google Inc. (GOOG:US) promised a “robust” debate on a European Union court ruling …
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 …
Discussion: UPROXX
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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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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 …
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 and @stevenjbarnett
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Politico partners with German publisher Axel Springer to launch European edition  —  POLITICO partners with Axel Springer to launch European product  —  POLITICO will partner with the German media conglomerate Axel Springer to create a European edition of POLITICO, CEO Jim VandeHei informed staff on Tuesday.
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Reuters:
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner wants to double profits, seeks to buy new assets
Discussion: Poynter
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Full memo from Politico CEO Jim VandeHei and editor-in-chief John Harris on European expansion
 
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
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Kevin Rawlinson / BBC:
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Joe Parkinson / Wall Street Journal:
Turkey Tightens Grip Over the Internet
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Alan Rusbridger: Source confidentiality is ‘in peril’ and needs ‘urgent action’ to combat state spying
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Fox loses bid to halt TV monitoring service