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John McDermott / Digiday:
BuzzFeed and Fusion cease partnership with Whisper in response to user privacy questions — Whisper: The anonymous app that isn't so anonymous after all — Whisper's chummy relationship with the publishing world appears to be backfiring. The Guardian published a story Thursday revealing …
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New York Times, Capital New York, @jimwaterson and @ashk4n
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Guardian:
Guardian responds to Whisper's denials, stands by its claims, urges media and users to keep pressing Whisper — Whisper: the facts — Executives from the anonymous social media app have dismissed as a ‘pack of lies’ the Guardian's revelation that they track users. But the evidence is clear
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@dceiver, @samfbiddle, @attackerman, @antderosa, @jayrosen_nyu, VPN Creative, @ashk4n, @bartongellman and @youranonnews
Guardian:
Whisper monitors users working for media companies and is developing a version of its app to conform to Chinese censorship rules
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Donald R. Winslow / NPPA:
Syracuse disinvites WashPost Pulitzer photographer due to Ebola fears — UPDATED at 9:12 p.m. CST with response from Syracuse University — Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille of The Washington Post, who returned from covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia 21 days ago …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
TV's Move to the Web Can Strengthen Its Cable Business — It's a pivotal time for TV: One by one, big networks are stepping out of the cable bundle and giving viewers a chance to watch their stuff on the Web. But those networks also assume they're going to make most of their money from the cable bundle, for many years to come.
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Wall Street Journal and Gigaom
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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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@ceodonovan, The Atlantic Online, Forbes, Guardian, @theatlantic and Re/code
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
IWantMedia site will go dark Monday — Fourteen-year-old IWantMedia.com will go dark on Monday. — Patrick Phillips, the founder of the IWantMedia site, who sold it to Guggenheim/Prometheus Partners for a mid-six-figure deal four years ago, is exiting after clashing with the current management team.
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FishbowlNY, @joepompeo and MediaWire Daily
Gideon Spanier / London Evening Standard:
Vice to launch local editions in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico — Vice News to expand in London and overseas — Vice News, the hip online video-news organisation that has reported from global trouble spots such as Syria and Ukraine, today said it will launch …
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Guardian
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
We will continue to use Ripa powers against journalists, says Met's assistant commissioner — Mark Rowley defends controversial use of powers against reporters if criminality is suspected, saying ‘nobody should be above the law’ — One of the Metropolitan Police's most senior policemen …
Dave Lee / BBC:
BBC to publish ‘right to be forgotten’ removals list — The meeting was hosted by Google chairman Eric Schmidt — The BBC is to publish a continually-updated list of articles removed from Google searches under the controversial “right to be forgotten” rule.
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The Next Web
Claire Duffin / Telegraph:
Authors' concerns after court rules writer can't publish sex abuse memoir — Leading authors including Sir Tom Stoppard, William Boyd and John Carey have criticised court judgment as posing a ‘significant threat to freedom of expression’ — Leading authors have expressed their “grave concern” …
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Associated Press and @stephenfry
Hurriyet Daily News:
Turkish journalist briefly detained for tweets in first ‘reasonable doubt’ raid: Lawyer … A journalist was briefly detained in southern Turkey over his tweets criticizing the government, in the first police raid that a court has warranted using the controversial new “reasonable doubt” regulation, his lawyer claimed on Oct. 17.
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Today's Zaman …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Breaking up the pledge drive: Boston's WBUR wants to build a new model for public media funding — embership is having a moment in the world of media. Companies like The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times among others are attempting to develop new sources of revenue …
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@indira_l and @justinnxt
Richard Byrne Reilly / VentureBeat:
Neil Young officially unveils new high-tech music player and streaming service — SAN FRANCISCO — Rocker Neil Young officially unveiled a new music download service and a high-tech music player today at Saleforce's Dreamforce conference. — To the obvious delight of his host …
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Music Week
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