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Nieman Lab:
A mixed bag on apps: What The New York Times learned with NYT Opinion and NYT Now — The New York Times' announcement today that it was cutting 100 positions in its newsroom was coupled with changes to two of its most closely watched experiments, each just a few months old: NYT Now and NYT Opinion.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times to cut 100 jobs through buyouts and layoffs, NYT Opinion to be shuttered — New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff — The New York Times plans to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs, as well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations …
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John Herrman / The Awl:
NYT Opinion was interesting software but op-ed franchise stopped accumulating fans decades ago
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@jfruh, @timfernholz, @nbj914 and @mathewi
Reuters:
France's Orange to market Netflix in November - CEO — France's biggest telecom operator Orange has reached an agreement with Netflix to offer the video streaming service on its set-top boxes from November, its chief executive Stephane Richard told Le Monde newspaper on Wednesday.
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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Report: Netflix Attracts Over 100,000 French Subscribers in Two Weeks — PARIS- Weathering protests and skepticism from French industryites, Netflix has managed to have a successful start in Gaul. — The U.S. company has already lured over 100,000 subscribers since its launch in Gaul on Sept. 15 …
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Home Media Magazine
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egypt Seizes Newspapers to Censor an Article — CAIRO — The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the country's largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed in an American television interview that there was …
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@rajivwashpost and Daily News Egypt
Edmund Lee / Re/code:
Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber: “Now Software's Driving the Journalism” (Q&A) — Lionel Barber, the 59-year-old, Oxford-educated editor of the Financial Times, comes across exactly the way you'd expect a 59-year-old, Oxford-educated editor of a significant newspaper to act: Gracious, opinionated, maybe a bit deliberative.
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@niemanlab, @starexplorer, @shannonpareil, @sub8u, Talking Biz News and Nieman Lab
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Viacom Blocks Suddenlink Subs' Online Access To Shows — No SpongeBob, Daily Show Online After carriage Deal Expires — As expected, Viacom is blocking Suddenlink Communications' customers' access to its online content in the wake of its failure to reach a carriage renewal agreement wit the pay TV provider.
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
More Cable Companies Take TV Off Menu
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Techdirt, FierceCable, BGR, Ars Technica and Consumerist
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Reporting on Ebola: First rule is you don't touch anyone — MONROVIA, Liberia — I was goofing around with a small group of young children outside their home on a muddy, cratered road in the New Kru Town slum here. I made a scary face and the kids skittered, giggling, behind a low wall at the front of their shanty.
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@jfdulac and @matthewltully
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
What We're Doing To Keep Building A Diverse Editorial Operation — Diversity in BuzzFeed's editorial operation isn't a side project or special initiative. It's core to how we operate and how we hire. — As we enter another round of intense growth and hiring, I thought it was important …
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@jaycaspiankang, @msmalcriada, CNNMoney.com, @isaacfitzgerald, @redsteeze, @lauraolin and @wesleylowery
Loek Essers / Computerworld:
Google removes news snippets for some German sites after publishers sought cut of ad revenue — Google bows to pressure, removes news snippets from German search results — In a move to minimize legal risks, Google has stopped showing news snippets and thumbnails for some well-known German news sites in search results.
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@jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis and Agence France-Presse
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Netflix's Chief Executive Pushes Net Neutrality in Europe — On Wednesday, Reed Hastings, the Netflix chief executive, took his net neutrality bandwagon to Europe. — Speaking at a conference in Brussels, Mr. Hastings — who has been a vocal critic of plans that would allow Internet service providers …
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Forbes
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
New York Post settles lawsuit over “bag men” cover — BOSTON (AP) — The New York Post has settled a defamation lawsuit over a cover three days after the Boston Marathon bombing that featured a photo of two Massachusetts residents with the headline “Bag Men.” — Neither side would disclose terms of the settlement.
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Mediaite
Kelly Golnoush Niknejad / Columbia Journalism Review:
How US-based The Tehran Bureau uses crowdsourcing and social media to report on Iran — This is how Tehran Bureau covers Iran — Its reporting model, using undercover journalists and distant editors, is one way to cover closed societies — At the turn of this century …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Tests A New Homepage Highlighting Magazines, Talent... And Twitter — For the past year or so, Yahoo has been working through a major design overhaul under CEO Marissa Mayer, and it looks like it has now started testing out new formats for its biggest property of all, Yahoo.com.
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WebProNews
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Why The Daily Pennsylvanian is spending $100,000 over the next two years to foster innovation — With staffs full of technology savvy millennials and comparatively few overhead costs, you might think that college newspapers would be among the most digitally innovative news organizations.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
One year after Tina Brown exit, Daily Beast traffic surges — It's been one year since Tina Brown left The Daily Beast, and the site seems to be doing better for it. — In a memo to staff on Wednesday, Editor-in-Chief John Avlon said internal numbers on all platforms showed 21.3 million unique visitors …
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@olivianuzzi
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast's Cloud DVR Now Streams Recordings over Any U.S. Internet Connection — Internet-based DVR access and in-home TV streaming now available in 50% of cable giant's footprint — Comcast is adding a new wrinkle to its X1 network DVR service: Subscribers can now access their personal recordings …
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BuzzFeed, The Verge, CNET, Business Wire, The Technology Chronicles, Light Reading, Engadget, Mercury News and Multichannel News
Patrick Strickland / The Electronic Intifada:
Palestinian Authority arrests two journalists for Facebook posts — The Palestinian Authority's recent arrests of two journalists in the occupied West Bank are part of a broader pattern of monitoring and censoring social media activity, according to the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA).
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