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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Whisper's Neetzan Zimmerman says the Guardian's coverage deliberately misrepresents how the service works — Neetzan Zimmerman, who runs the editorial operation at Whisper, said in an interview that a series of stories by The Guardian that raised concerns about the anonymous app's privacy …
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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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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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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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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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D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Washington Post to launch a 24-page national tabloid edition to be inserted into weekend papers — The Washington Post today said that it would premiere a new 24-page national edition to be inserted into The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers. The tabloid insert will feature local …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
You can now listen to a podcast in a tweet (and keep on scrolling) — You can add audio and video players inside your tweets, just as WNYC did for a Maya Angelou interview — Back in May, we told you about how WNYC was using a Twitter Player Card to embed audio into its tweets. It was pretty nifty!
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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Search Engine Land, VPN Creative and The Next Web
Larry Ong / The Epoch Times:
Getty photographer Paula Bronstein detained while covering Hong Kong protests — Paula Bronstein Arrest: Getty Photojournalist Detained While Covering Hong Kong Occupy Central Protests (+Photo) — Hong Kong police have arrested photojournalist Paula Bronstein.
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@buzzfeednews, @hkfs1958 and @byalanwong
NetNewsCheck Latest:
NYT Launches Its International Weekly In U.S. — The New York Times today announced that it will begin offering its International Weekly supplement to U.S.-based publishers, starting with an agreement with The Dallas Morning News. The New York Times International Weekly is distributed …
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investors.nytco.com and Poynter
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.
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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, Variety and The Huffington Post
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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Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
Playlists.net Acquired By Warner Music Group — In early July we reported exclusively that Spotify community and playlist sharing site Playlists.net was in acquisition talks, with one suitor — a prominent music industry company — in the lead. Well, today comes official confirmation …
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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 …
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