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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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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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VPN Creative, Gigaom and @jimwaterson
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Whisper's Neetzan Zimmerman responds to Guardian report: “We do not track or follow our users” — 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 …
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@neetzan, @donohoe, @petersterne, @jennydeluxe, @neetzan, @kevinroose, PandoDaily, @digiphile, @matthewkeyslive, The Verge, @jayrosen_nyu and Capital New York
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
@indira_l and @justinnxt
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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@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 …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Telegraph's Jason Seiken takes a non-editorial business role — The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) issued a bland press release today announcing “key new promotions... as part of its accelerated transformation plan.” — But it was easy to read between the lines of the corporate document.
Discussion:
Press Gazette, @pickardje and @jonathanhaynes
Alexis Giles / SoundCloud:
Twitter partners with Soundcloud to launch Audio Card, a new way to share audio in timeline — Introducing SoundCloud tracks in your Twitter timeline with audio cards — Get ready to play some fresh SoundCloud tracks in your Twitter timeline on your mobile.
Discussion:
The Twitter Blog, @jherskowitz, Reuters, @soundcloud, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web and hypebot
Michael Rondon / Folio:
A Look at NatGeo's Multiyear Deep-Dive Into Food — Building a product line around world food consumption. — Theme issues aren't anything new for publishers, but National Geographic is building out an entire product line and set of partnerships off of a magazine series on the future of food.
Alvin Lim / INMA:
Dissolving titles that separate digital employees in media companies — When new media isn't new anymore, perhaps it's time for media companies to rethink the way they assign titles working in the digital space. — Why is a journalist who works for a Web site is designated as an …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitpic Couldn't Find An Acquirer, Will Shut Down After All On Oct 25th — The reports of Twitpic's survival were greatly exaggerated. Despite claiming it had found an acquirer to save it from death following a trademark complaint from Twitter, the photo sharing service today announced …
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Twitpic Blog, @twitpic, The Verge, Business Insider, BetaNews, Fast Company, Engadget, @jngross, Marketing Land, Gigaom and The Next Web
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.
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The Atlantic Online, @ceodonovan, Forbes and Guardian
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