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12:45 PM ET, September 15, 2014

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
In Latest Volley Against Amazon, Hachette's Writers Target Its Board  —  Amazon is at war with Hachette, and it sometimes seems as if it has always been that way.  —  As a negotiating tool in the battle, which is over the price of e-books, Amazon is discouraging its customers from buying the publisher's printed books.
Jim Romenesko:
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism proposes a $10,250 per year supplemental fee  —  Ed Wasserman, dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, says in a memo to the j-school community that “the amount students now pay does not reflect what their degrees cost to provide [and] …
David Chazan / Telegraph:
Netflix launches in France to hostile reception  —  The subscription-based video streaming service launches in France to frosty reception from local media although it is funding Gallic answer to its “House of Cards” series  —  The American video streaming service Netflix launches …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
BuzzFeed Going Hollywood in a Big Way, Jonah Peretti explains  —  COLOGNE, Germany - BuzzFeed is quickly growing its video audience to some 400 million monthly views says Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO in this interview with Beet.TV.  It has build a substantial Hollywood production center …
Thanks:@beet_tv
David Carr / New York Times:
TMZ displays its power by exposing Ray Rice's attack, imperiling the NFL and its commissioner  —  In Ray Rice Scandal, TMZ Scores on a Fumble  —  The N.F.L., arguably the three most powerful letters in branding, bumped into three other letters — TMZ — and was thrown for a huge loss.
Anna Griffin / Nieman Reports:
Why we need more female newsroom leaders  —  At a time when women head fewer major U.S. newspapers than they did 10 years ago, there is a place where women run not only some of the nation's leading papers but the major public TV station and private TV and radio stations, too.
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Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Flipboard is testing fullscreen video ads; Jack Daniel's and Gucci amongst first advertisers  —  Flipboard Presses Play on Full-Page Video Ads  —  Flipboard's brand advertising playbook has culled not only from print magazines but now TV as well.  The news-reading service …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Al Jazeera's digital news venture AJ+ launches with a dedicated iPhone app  —  Al Jazeera is officially unveiling AJ+ and the AJ+ iPhone app, which aims to bring news and context to people who don't watch news on TV anymore.  —  How can a traditional TV news organization cater to people …
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
TMZ's Harvey Levin to Kurtz: Fox Has Been ‘Spoon-fed’ Our Stories for Years  —  TMZ founder Harvey Levin didn't give an inch in an interview with MediaBuzz's Howard Kurtz Sunday morning, disputing characterizations of his website as a trashy tabloid and dismissing concerns that TMZ paid for videos as par for the course.
Discussion: TVNewser
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
German non-profit newsroom sharing all data and stories  —  A non-profit project launched in Germany to help small newsrooms with big investigations has published its first story in collaboration with a German weekly.  CORRECT!  V, which announced its first collaborations in July …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook's Top Content Cop on Censorship and Safety (Q&A)  —  On the morning of August 20, Monika Bickert, the head of global policy for Facebook, was alerted to a video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley.  It was 3:54 am, and Bickert leapt into action.
Discussion: @martinbeck and @rosenjeffrey
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
White House: We 'Didn't Threaten' Families Of Slain U.S. Journalists With Prosecution  —  WASHINGTON — White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday pushed back on claims that the Obama administration threatened prosecution against the families of two American journalists brutally murdered …
 
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico magazine editor Susan Glasser expected to be promoted to No 2. editor in newsroom
Lene Bech Sillesen / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at how a pan-European outlet might fit into the continent's news landscape, as Politico branches out
Scott Butterworth / Washington Post:
The end of the iPod: Goodbye to the little box that changed everything
Discussion: ITProPortal, Wired and @howardkurtz
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Britannica shifts its online-only encyclopedia toward a free, advertising-supported model
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3

 
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