Mediagazer: Nobel Peace Prize Winners Urge Obama To Halt Legal Action Against Journalist (Accuracy.Org)

3:45 AM ET, September 16, 2014

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

Like it or not, native advertising is squarely inside the big news tent — “There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. You might think that the public would resent this trick …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT will run 4 native ads on Mashable

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Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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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 …

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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?

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …