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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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Martin Peers / The Information:
HBO's standalone online streaming service won't be less than pay TV retail price of $15/month — HBO's Online Pricing Trap — HBO's broadband service looks doomed even before it starts. — While HBO hasn't disclosed details, pricing of the new broadband offering most likely won't be less …
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Business Insider and WebProNews
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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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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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Whisper's Neetzan Zimmerman responds to Guardian report: “We do not track or follow our users”
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed now has editorial and product people in place for its forthcoming news app — Shortly after being hired as head of product for BuzzFeed's new news app, Noah Chestnut started spending more time with his phone, downloading leading news apps, reading email newsletters, and generally checking out the competition.
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@buzzfeedben, @tomgara and @niemanlab
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 …
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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The Independent, Guardian and The Huffington Post
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Getty fails to get injunction on Microsoft image widget — (Reuters) - Getty Images Inc [GETTY.UL] has failed to convince a federal judge to halt Microsoft Corp's Bing Image Widget, which it said enabled massive copyright infringement, because the software company had already taken it down voluntarily.
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
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Why the Guardian and Telegraph's ‘Audience not Platforms’ partnership could lead to much more — The single biggest disruptive impact of the internet on advertising has been the ability of big websites and audience aggregators to offer access to huge numbers of people.
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 …
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Google imposes new penalty on pirate sites in search results — Google is demoting pirate sites further in its search rankings. That news is one nugget contained in a larger report that details the company's ongoing anti-piracy efforts. — In a move that's likely to please copyright owners …
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Google Public Policy Blog
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
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
Christopher Bodeen / Associated Press:
China jails 2 reporters accused of faking stories — BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court on Friday jailed two journalists accused of taking bribes and smearing an engineering company with fabricated articles, one of a series of recent scandals surrounding the state-controlled media.
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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