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8:55 PM ET, September 15, 2014

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Like it or not, native advertising is squarely inside the big news tent  —  Editor's note: The new issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports is out and ready for you to read.  —  (We've already shared a  —  I write a column for the print edition of the magazine.  Here's mine from the new issue.
Discussion: @awuti, @dgaddy_star, @jbenton and @mathewi
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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.
WikiLeaks:
WikiLeaks releases copies of FinFisher malware governments reportedly use to spy on media  —  SpyFiles 4  —  Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others.
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 …
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
NPR Adds to Live Shows, With Almost 24 Planned  —  NPR, following the lead of other news and radio organizations, is widely expanding its live stage shows, with a slate of nearly two dozen events planned nationwide in the coming months.  —  The most ambitious of three “NPR Presents” series …
Discussion: @meburks and @tinaantolini
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
TWC Makes Dodgers Games Available on Broadcast  —  Points out that means available to MVPD subs as well  —  Broadcast and MVPD viewers will get to see the last six games of the Dodgers season, according to Time Warner Cable, which said Monday it had struck a deal with L.A. independent KDOC to air the games.
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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Rapid TV News:   Netflix signs deal with French telecoms firm Bouygues to host service on its Bbox platform
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
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
As tech firms take on the role of newsrooms, will they care about legal fights for public interest?  —  As the legal budgets of traditional news rooms keep shrinking, they have been unable to fight the public interest battles of the past.  Will tech companies be willing or able to pick up that torch?
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
AOL's 2,000 publisher partners help grow its AOL On video library reach 1.2B views a month  —  How AOL has quietly become a digital video powerhouse  —  Publicly, AOL struggles to shake its reputation as a floundering Web giant.  But investors have a reason to be bullish …
Discussion: @digiday and @ladouglass
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Literary magazine n+1 survives 10 years, opens archives to subscribers online and in print  —  n+1: Learning that print and digital can peacefully coexist  —  At ten years old, n+1 is no longer a newcomer to the small magazine scene.  Carla Blumenkranz, a contributing editor who recently left …
Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah is released on bail while awaiting retrial  —  PROMINENT EGYPTIAN ACTIVIST FREED ON BAIL  —  CAIRO (AP) — Worn out but smiling, a prominent Egyptian activist facing retrial on a 15-year prison sentence for violating a draconian protest law walked …
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
 
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
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