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10:15 AM ET, October 3, 2014

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NBC News:
US freelance cameraman working for NBC in Liberia diagnosed with Ebola, will be flown to US  —  NBC News Freelancer in Africa Diagnosed with Ebola  —  An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Asks the Music Labels for a Price Cut on Streaming Subscriptions  —  There are lots of music subscription services that let people listen to all the songs they want for $10 a month.  —  Apple thinks that price is too high.  —  Sources say Apple is talking to the big music labels …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times eliminates some two dozen jobs on business side  —  While New York Times journalists brace for a round of voluntary buyouts that aims to shave dozens of salaries from their newsroom, the business side is bidding farewell to employees who have been informed that their positions are being eliminated.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Piers Morgan talks about ratings race at CNN, his new column at MailOnline, and future plans  —  Exclusive: Piers Morgan dishes on CNN  —  BEVERLY HILLS, California — Piers Morgan swears he doesn't miss CNN — but the network is still very much on his mind.
Alex Lawson / London Evening Standard:
Google battles to remove nude celebrity photos amid lawsuit threat  —  Google has said it is battling to remove thousands of images of hacked celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna after being threatened with a $100 million lawsuit.  —  A lawyer who represents …
PEN International:
Honduras bans Globo TV anchor Julio Alvarado for 16 months for covering university corruption  —  Honduras: PEN member barred from journalism after covering corruption in state university  —  The 16-month ban on practising journalism imposed on Globo TV news anchor and PEN member Julio Ernesto Alvarado …
Discussion: Guardian
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Washington Post takes its ‘native’ ads to print  —  When is a print advertorial a native ad?  The Washington Post published an ad for Shell in Thursday's print edition that it's touting as its first native ad in print.  Shell used the ad, which ran on A13, to tell readers about the work it's doing to improve energy efficiency.
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Former Vice Media editor says company killed stories over ‘brand partner’ concerns  —  By all accounts, the brief tenure of Charles Davis as an associate editor working out of the Los Angeles bureau for Vice Media was not a happy one.  —  He showed promise when he was hired in July …
Reuters:
Ex-Googler leads Softbank invasion of Hollywood  —  (Reuters) - Softbank Corp's investment in a Hollywood movie studio represents the coming out party for two new players in the U.S. entertainment industry — the Japanese telecommunications company and Nikesh Arora, the former Google Inc executive running …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: News of the Worlds Ian Edmondson pleads guilty  —  Ex-news editor was one of original eight defendants, alongside Rebekah Brooks, but was later deemed unfit to continue  —  A former News of the World news executive has admitted he was involved in phone hacking …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer emphasizes News Digest app and digital magazines at Advertising Week  —  Marissa Mayer's favorite new Yahoo products  —  Two of Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer's favorite new products at the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based web behemoth happen to resemble good old-fashioned newspapers and magazines.
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online:
In The New York Times's new live news feed, tweets and updates from official sources trump those from ordinary people  —  In 1928, The New York Times installed a news ticker on the side of its building.  The prologue to today's TV news tickers, the Times called it a “zipper” and displayed the headlines of the day on it.
 
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