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Guardian:
Whisper monitors users working for media companies and is developing a version of its app to conform to Chinese censorship rules — Revealed: how Whisper app tracks anonymous users — Company shares some information with US Department of Defense — User data collated and indefinitely stored in searchable database
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
CBS to offer standalone web subscription service CBS All Access at $5.99/month in 14 cities — CBS Launches Live and On-Demand Web Video Subscription Service — Yesterday, HBO announced plans to sell Web video subscriptions. Today, CBS. — CBS? — Yup, CBS: The broadcaster …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The cable bundle has unraveled more in the last 24 hours than in the previous 24 months — The cable bundle has unraveled more in the last 24 hours than in the previous 24 months — Yesterday, HBO announced a new Internet streaming service for 2015 that will let you watch shows without a cable subscription.
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
HBO's taking on Netflix like never before. But now they'll share the same headaches, too.
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Variety, The Verge, @chashomans, @niteshm2 and Re/code
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Mail Online's edit staff moonlights as ad creators — For many publishers trying to jump on the native advertising gravy train, the biggest challenge is running sponsor content that's actually high quality. The irony of this is publishers have plenty of experts in creating compelling content with their journalists.
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@digiday
Kyle Wagner / Deadspin:
The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate — Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her. She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved video game fans associated with Gamergate …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
BBC Uses WhatsApp For An Ebola Health Alert Service In West Africa — While Snapchat may reportedly be talking to a dozen news organisations for a “Snapchat Discovery” service, another big name in mobile messaging is also breaking new ground with big media.
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Journalism.co.uk, BBC, @ingridlunden, @alexmaccallum and @dyerworld
John McMurtrie / The San Francisco Chronicle:
McSweeney's to become nonprofit publishing house — The San Francisco publishing house McSweeney's will become a nonprofit, allowing the acclaimed small press to continue taking on projects that don't necessarily make money, its founder Dave Eggers told The Chronicle.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How a small experiment at The Washington Post revolutionized its content management platform — About three years ago, The Washington Post embarked on a complete overhaul of the way it creates and publishes content online. — The project was ambitious. The Post — which then relied primarily …
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@gg, @mrjohncrowley, @sliss33, @timjhanrahan and @mjmonahan
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How the American Society of News Editors retooled to focus more on digital tools and editors — How ASNE has become similar to ONA (and vice-versa) — A quick scan of the program from September's American Society of News Editors convention might lead you to believe you'd stumbled into the wrong Chicago hotel.
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The New York Observer
Matt Warman / Telegraph:
Amazon UK will use newspaper and magazine distributor Smiths News for same-day deliveries — Amazon launches same-day pick-up services — Amazon customers can now order online in the morning and pick up the same afternoon — Customers ordering products on Amazon will be able to buy online …
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Wall Street Journal and Reuters
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Fairfax Media to get rid of subeditors and photographers at regional papers — The company says reporters will be trained to edit stories and take photos but the journalists' union is fighting the plan — Some Fairfax Media regional newspapers will be stripped of subeditors and photographers under …
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BBC Blog:
BBC's Genome project digitizes all Radio Times magazine listings, from 1923 to 2009, puts them online — Genome - Radio Times archive now live — Genome - the BBC project to digitise the Radio Times magazines between 1923 and 2009 is now live. On the site you can find BBC broadcast information …
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Guardian, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Engadget and @garthinew
Kirsti Knolle / Reuters:
Publishers aim to take Chinese literature to the world — (Reuters) - China, the world's second-biggest book market after the United States, has long been a consumer of works from other countries, now it is making a push to export its own literature abroad, helped by the e-book revolution.
Associated Press:
Myanmar journal owner, publisher, and journalists given 2 years for report on activist group — Myanmar jails 3 journalists for leadership report — 6 photos — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A Myanmar court sentenced a media owner, publisher and three journalists to two years in prison Thursday …
Simon Zekaria / Wall Street Journal:
BSkyB Lifted by Demand for On-The-Go Entertainment — Pay-TV Company Reports Rise in Profit, Boosted by Demand for New Products — LONDON— British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC on Thursday sounded an upbeat tone as it reported a rise in quarterly profit, lifted by customers' demand to watch and download entertainment on the go.
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Time Warner's Vision: How Media Giant Wants to Do More With Less — It was an extraordinary day for Time Warner. Even as high profile cancellations were unfolding at the CNN news division, CEO Jeff Bewkes was out in public promising shareholders he would double earnings at the media giant in the next couple of years.
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Broadcasting & Cable and Variety
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
‘Crossfire,’ ‘Sanjay Gupta,’ ‘CNN Money’ get the ax as CNN cuts continue
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TVNewser, Variety and Hollywood Reporter
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