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3:00 PM ET, October 2, 2014

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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.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Google threatened with $100M lawsuit for failure to remove nude images of hacked celebrities  —  Celebrities Threaten “Despicable” Google for “Facilitating” Hacked Nude Photos  —  In a letter that rips Google for acting “like the NFL” and turning a blind eye, a lawyer representing celebrities warns of consequences
Emily Steel / New York Times:
With Four New Adam Sandler Films, Netflix Takes Aim at Theaters  —  Netflix plans to announce on Thursday that it has struck a deal with the comedian Adam Sandler to produce and star in four new feature films that will appear exclusively on the streaming service.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter UK TV Ratings Go Live This Month, The First Of 6 New Markets With Kantar  —  Twitter is today putting in place the latest piece of its global “social TV” strategy, which involves measuring how its users share and discuss TV programs and related content on Twitter's network.
Krishnadev Calamur / NPR:
One System, Two Media: How China, Hong Kong Are Covering The Protests  —  Hong Kong media are providing wall-to-wall coverage of the protests calling for the resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, but in mainland China there has been little to no mention of the unrest.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
The NFL's Flirtation With the Web Is Over (For Now)  —  One day, a tech giant like Google or Apple might stream pro football games to American homes.  But not anytime soon: DirecTV has renewed its deal to carry the NFL's “Sunday Ticket” subscription package.
Discussion: @pkafka
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Daniel Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger gets two-year contract extension  —  Walt Disney Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Iger's contract has been extended two years through June 2018, the Burbank-based company said Thursday.  —  The executive, who has been CEO of the world's largest …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
How The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig Broke Open The Secret Service Scandal  —  NEW YORK — With the Secret Service under fire for a series of security lapses in presidential protection, there is one journalist who seems to have all the information.  The White House, Congress and even Julia Pierson …
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Amazon's crowdsourced publishing platform will launch soon for mystery, romance and sci-fi authors  —  Amazon's crowdsourced publishing initiative is for romance, mystery/thriller and sci-fi/fantasy authors, and will open to the public in a couple of weeks.  Separately, Amazon is launching a community called WriteOn.
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter, MIT Create New Research Lab to Analyze Every Tweet  —  Twitter is giving every tweet ever made publicly to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the name of research.  —  With a $10 million investment from Twitter, data scientists at MIT's Media Lab are creating a new research group …
National Union of Journalists:
NUJ calls for urgent investigation of RIPA's use to spy on journalists  —  The NUJ has condemned a further case in which police have misused the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) in order to secretly access material from journalists and their sources.
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Ready for a Vice Talk Show?  Vice News to Develop Scheduled Live Shows With Skype  —  Weighing Two Talk Show Formats to Involve Its Audience  —  Vice News has gained attention with long live feeds from Ferguson, Mo., but is now moving to also schedule live programming online.  —  Hispanic Fact Pack 2014
Discussion: Media Week
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
£600k salary for outgoing Newsquest chief Paul Davidson as company makes £53m profit in 2013  —  The UK's third largest newspaper group Newsquest made an operating profit last year of £52.8m on turnover of £289m.  —  Both profit and turnover were down from the 2012 totals …
Discussion: Guardian
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Sirius XM will appeal copyright ruling in $100 million lawsuit  —  Satellite radio provider Sirius XM Holdings Inc will appeal a California federal judge's decision finding it liable of copyright infringement for airing pre-1972 songs by the band, The Turtles, and failing to pay royalties.
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 …
Press Association:
Music consumption helps drive UK technology sales by £11bn  —  Each 1% increase in demand for music translates to 1.4% boost in sales of smartphones and 2.2% for tablets, study finds  —  Music consumption in the UK has had the knock-on effect of driving technology sales to the tune …
Variety:
SoftBank Investing $250 Million in Legendary, Forms Joint Venture  —  Japanese banking and technology giant SoftBank Corp. has closed a deal to invest $250 million in Legendary Entertainment.  As part of the pact, the companies will form a joint venture designed to promote and create business opportunities …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Sun journalist faces retrial over alleged payment to police officer  —  Jury fails to reach a verdict on first journalist to be charged under Met police's Operation Elveden  —  The first Sun journalist to be charged for payments to police leaking stories will face a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict at the Old Bailey.
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.
Discussion: The Next Web and Bloomberg
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Corilyn Shropshire / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Media's Gracenote buys Australian TV, movie data provider
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
BBC ramps up Australian online news operation
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Publishers give the movie review a refresh
Discussion: @efelsenthal
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Authors Guild Met With DoJ to Seek Investigation Into Amazon's Practices
Discussion: Bookseller news
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Why The Daily Pennsylvanian is spending $100,000 over the next two years to foster innovation
Discussion: @sambrodey and @fffffrida
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
One year after Tina Brown exit, Daily Beast traffic surges
Discussion: @olivianuzzi
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
New York Post settles lawsuit over “bag men” cover
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Viacom Blocks Suddenlink Subs' Online Access To Shows
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Netflix's Chief Executive Pushes Net Neutrality in Europe
Discussion: Mediashift and Forbes
Loek Essers / Computerworld:
Google removes news snippets for some German sites after publishers sought cut of ad revenue
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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