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9:15 AM ET, September 29, 2014

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Variety:
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:
Record censorship of China's social media as references to Hong Kong protests blocked  —  Censorship on Chinese social media has reached a new record this year as the mainland's editors of public debate rushed to quell conversations on Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.
Discussion: Quartz and @laurencewsj
Wall Street Journal:
Softbank in Talks to Acquire DreamWorks Animation  —  Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp. is in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:
Seattle Times, Pro Publica, NPR take home 2014 Online Journalism Awards  —  CHICAGO — Coverage of natural disasters and health care as well as the making of a T-shirt took top honors Saturday night at the 2014 Online Journalism Awards, which ended the Online News Association Conference.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Association of Magazine Media launches new metric to track audiences beyond print  —  Magazines to Count Readers in New Way  —  Publishers Seize Chance to Show Growth With Metric Tool That Tracks Audiences Across Categories  —  Magazine publishers have long argued that traditional industry print metrics …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Polish newspaper launches interactive data journalism platform  —  Gazeta Wyborcza set up BIQdata.pl, ‘the first website of its kind’ in Poland, to offer more visuals and interactive data analysis to its subscribers  —  Credit: By Luke Legay on Flickr.  Some rights reserved.
Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:
Chinese Online Movie-Ticket Sales Rose 43 Percent Last Year, Study Finds  —  The number of people who paid for tickets with mobile phones increased by 109 percent  —  China's box-office boom, which has seen theatrical revenue rise by 20 percent a year, has been accompanied by a jump …
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iran State TV: BBC Tried To Steal From ‘archives’  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television accused the BBC on Sunday of trying to steal “artistic, historic and cultural documents” from government archives in the Islamic Republic.  —  The BBC had no immediate comment on the claim …
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 …
Ben Austen / New York Magazine:
Chasing Mayhem With Peter Nickeas, the Chicago Tribune's Overnight Crime Reporter  —  “Did you guys have a shooting on the expressway?  No?  Okay, I’ll try back later.”  —  Shares  —  “Cold is the best crime deterrent,” says Peter Nickeas, the overnight reporter covering violence …
Discussion: @kjerstinwood and @yayitsrob
Jackie Spinner / American Journalism Review:
The Big Conundrum: Should Journalists Learn Code?  —  In the new multimedia world journalists inhabit, Fernando Diaz, the managing editor of Hoy, Chicago's Spanish-language daily, is placing his bets on computer codes.  —  His last two hires were both developers: Nick Bennett …
Discussion: @markstencel and @cerenomri
 
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