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3:45 AM ET, September 16, 2014

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Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
For James Foley's Family, U.S. Policy Offered No Hope  —  The email appeared in Michael Foley's inbox a year after his brother James disappeared on a reporting trip in northern Syria.  It made clear that the people holding him wanted one thing above all else: money.
Discussion: @katz and @lrozen
Hadas Gold / Politico:
NLRB orders CNN to rehire 100, compensate 200  —  The National Labor Relations Board on Monday ordered CNN to rehire 100 workers and compensate 200 over a labor dispute that has dragged on for eleven years.  —  In 2003, CNN replaced a unionized subcontractor called Team Video Services …
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Spotify launches on Amazon Fire TV in US, available to premium subscribers only  —  Spotify fires up on Amazon Fire TV  —  Amazon's streaming-media box adds support for the music service with more than 20 million songs.  To use Spotify Connect, you'll need a premium subscription.
Discussion: Spotify Blog and TechRadar.com
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.
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.
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
Publishers Weekly:
HarperCollins Adds Digital Watermarks to E-books  —  HarperCollins has started using Digimarc Corp.'s watermarking system for e-books to provide an extra layer of security to the sale of HC's digital content.  —  According to Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer for HC …
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
Accuracy.Org:
Nobel Peace Prize Winners Urge Obama To Halt Legal Action Against Journalist  —  Two winners of the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday urged President Obama to halt legal action by his administration against New York Times journalist James Risen.  —  In a statement addressed to Obama …
Discussion: @jamesrisen and @jamesrisen
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 …
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
 
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Flipboard is testing fullscreen video ads; Jack Daniel's and Gucci amongst first advertisers
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico magazine editor Susan Glasser expected to be promoted to No 2. editor in newsroom
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
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