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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
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Poynter, Guardian, The Drum, @dangillmor, @arusbridger, @cathomahony, @julieposetti, @jcstearns, @gunnar40 and @vivian
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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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Guardian, @redbrand, TheMediaBriefing, @jayrosen_nyu, @mattlearmouth, @lloydshep, @akshatrathi, @gallaghereditor and @michaelfredman
Reuters:
White House doesn't believe slain U.S. journalist was ‘sold’ to Islamic State — (Reuters) - The United States has no information indicating beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff was “sold” to Islamic State militants by moderate Syrian opposition rebels, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.
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Guardian, Mediaite, Telegraph, NY Daily News, The Independent, New York Post, ABC News, CBS News, The Independent, MiamiHerald.com, NBC News, The Wire, The Wire, FOX6Now.com, International Business Times, International Business Times, The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Politico and The Huffington Post
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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 …
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@mlcalderone
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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Broadcast, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline, Licensing.biz, Guardian, Variety, TVWise, ATV Today, MediaTel, MarketWatch and WorldScreen.com
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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 …
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 …
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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
Reddit uses “free speech” to defend the site's unsavory uses while ignoring the victims
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@ma_franks and The Awl
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
The Internet Slowdown protest for net neutrality needs to target regulators — Websites are loading slowly today to show what a future without net neutrality looks like. But perhaps a targeted slowdown in in order — The point of the protest is to make you angry …
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Techdirt
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Kevin Rawlinson / BBC:
Twitter supports Internet Slowdown campaign along with Netflix, Reddit, Wordpress, Digg, more
Twitter supports Internet Slowdown campaign along with Netflix, Reddit, Wordpress, Digg, more
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Home Media Magazine, Boing Boing, USA Today, Guardian, Gigaom, Softpedia News, The Next Web, TIME, @neeliekroeseu, @4b5, Washington Post, RT, CBS Chicago and BetaNews
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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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 …
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TorrentFreak, Complete Music Update, Softpedia News, RAIN News and hypebot
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 …
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Daily Mail and @stevenjbarnett
Gideon Spanier / London Evening Standard:
Hello! aims to prove print's still in fashion — The glossy fashion magazine is not dead. After the debut of Grazia in 2005, Stylist in 2009 and Porter this year, there is another surprising entrant. — Hello! Fashion Monthly, a spin-off of celebrity weekly Hello! …
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@gideonspanier