Mediagazer: Belgacom strikes deal to offer Netflix in Belgium (Philip Blenkinsop/Reuters)

4:35 PM ET, September 29, 2014

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Instagram, Chinese Media Restricted as Hong Kong Riots — Media in mainland China has limited its coverage of the severe social unrest taking place on the streets of Hong Kong. — In contrast, Hong Kong and international media have been carrying non-stop reports from the barricades …

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Patrick Boehler / South China Morning Post:

Hongkongers flock to ‘off-grid’ chat app FireChat amid fears of internet shutdown — Main menu — You are here — A mobile messaging application enabling users to communicate without internet access has seen large numbers of new sign-ups from Hong Kong as pro-democracy demonstrators …

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Patrick Boehler / South China Morning Post:
Record censorship of China's social media as references to Hong Kong protests blocked

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Jack Gillum / Associated Press:

Ferguson officials charge news outlets thousands of dollars to retrieve public records about Brown shooting — Ferguson Demands High Fees To Turn Over City Files — 2 photos — WASHINGTON (AP) — Bureaucrats in Ferguson, Missouri, responding to requests under the state's Sunshine Act …

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Literary Lions Unite in Protest Over Amazon's E-Book Tactics — The authors are uniting. — Last spring, when Amazon began discouraging customers from buying books published by Hachette, the writers grumbled that they were pawns in the retailer's contract negotiations over e-book prices.

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Andrew Nusca / Fortune:

In the fight against clickbait, Chartbeat pursues attention metric — Chartbeat, a web analytics company that serves online publishers, believes it has a better way to measure readers' attention. There aren't many things that can capture a busy journalist's attention. A juicy scoop, for one.

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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Universal Music Group to introduce native in-video advertising in streaming music videos — Your Favorite Old And New Music Videos Are About To Get A Brand Makeover — Universal Music Group, the world's largest record label, advertising agency Havas, and ad tech company Mirriad have teamed …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Newsweek places editor's note over Zakaria archives — This editor's note now sits on Newsweek's author page for Fareed Zakaria: … Zakaria's last story for Newsweek was published in September 2010, according to the archive. (The note is on that story, and others in the archive, as well.)

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Philip Blenkinsop / Reuters:

Belgacom strikes deal to offer Netflix in Belgium — (Reuters) - Belgian telecom operator Belgacom will begin distributing the content of Netflix this year after striking a deal with the U.S. video streaming service which launched in Belgium earlier this month.

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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

With Perspective From Both Sides of His Desk, F.C.C. Chairman Ponders Net Neutrality — WASHINGTON — As a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries, Tom Wheeler played a role in shaping almost every major telecommunications policy and innovation over the last three decades.

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

Digital Media to Take Center Stage at Advertising Week — BuzzFeed, Instagram, Automated Ad Buying to Dominate Chatter at Annual Conference — Advertising is quickly becoming a digital business. For proof, look no further than Advertising Week in New York.

Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

New Yorker's Magazine Covers Shift From Polite to Provocative — A few weeks ago, as scandals engulfed the National Football League, The New Yorker magazine's cover showed a player being chased down the field by police officers. — During the height of the demonstrations in Ferguson …

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Vimeo Starts Attracting More Web Video Series, Viewers, But Advertisers Not Welcome — Call it the anti-YouTube. — Each month, when comScore releases its monthly rankings of the top Web video properties, there are the usual suspects: YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo , AOL.

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