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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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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Whisper Just Wrote A 5-Page Response To A Scathing Security Report: ‘We Do Not Track Or Follow Our Users’ — Two reporters at The Guardian spent three days at Whisper's Santa Monica headquarters and wrote a scathing exposé on the startup. — Whisper, which allows people to anonymously post …
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Guardian, @neetzan, @jayrosen_nyu, @kevinroose, @jennydeluxe, @petersterne and The Verge
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
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Guardian, The Atlantic Online and @ceodonovan
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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Joel Mathis / Philadelphia Magazine:
Interstate General Media will fold Inquirer.com and PhillyDailyNews.com into Philly.com — Inky, Daily News Websites Shutting Down — The websites for the Inquirer and Daily News will shut down in December, leaving Philly.com as the sole website distributing the journalism of the two papers.
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, Latest News & Headlines, BBC, @ingridlunden, PandoDaily, @jonrussell, @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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New York Times, EW.com, GalleyCat, @stephenpub, @huiscebeatha, @sarahw and @nosowsky
The Center for Investigative Reporting:
WikiWash shines light on Wikipedia edits in meaningful way — Journalists and citizens now have a new tool to help them expose misinformation on Wikipedia. — WikiWash (Beta) is a prototype for a free public tool that helps uncover spin and bias on the popular Internet encyclopedia by tracking page edits.
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents — Agents from New Zealand's national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden.
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New Zealand Herald, @rj_gallagher, @freedomofpress and @rj_gallagher
Associated Press:
2 US journalists detained over Russia workshop — MOSCOW (AP) — Two American journalists have been briefly detained and taken to court for teaching an investigative journalism workshop in Russia. — The New England Center for Investigative Reporting said Thursday that its co-founder …
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@bethbdaley, New England Center …, @tomzuppa, @rcovington4, @gijn, BU Today and The Boston Globe
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
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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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
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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Variety, TVNewser and Hollywood Reporter
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