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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
German publishers grudgingly allow Google to display news snippets in search results without compensation — German Publishers Bow To Google's Market Power In Ongoing Text Snippets Fight — A tug of war between Google and German publishers over how online news content is displayed …
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BuzzMachine, Gigaom and @stkonrath
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
New York Times staffers band together over buyout anxiety — A group of New York Times employees acted en masse to request packages detailing the buyout packages they would qualify for if they applied for them in a round of buyouts announced by the newspaper earlier this fall, several employees confirmed to Capital.
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@edmundlee and Talking New Media
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Roku raises $25 million amid growing competition from Amazon and Google — Updated at 1:45 p.m. PST with a statement from Roku. — Set-top box company Roku has secured a fresh $25 million round of funding, according to a SEC form D filing released today.
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Multichannel News
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Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
WikiLeaks now has a commercial arm with licensing deals around the world. — If you buy what someone stands for — intellectually, philosophically or culturally — does this mean you will also buy them literally? Their taste, their tchotchkes, their likeness?
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@nytfashion, @eyezeeellis, @christianstork, @michaelroston and @marcos_moret
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Michael Wolff on HBO, CBS Streaming: TV Is Disrupting the Internet — Streaming services from the two networks don't signal television's capitulation to Netflix and the web; it's actually the opposite, as the medium expands yet again to gobble up more revenue
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@jmmandel, @natjarv, @michaelwolffnyc and @michaelwolffnyc
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
CBS News readies 24-hour ‘CBSN’ digital network — CBS News 24-hour digital news channel will be called CBSN, Capital has learned, and the network is preparing to launch a marketing campaign around it, a source told Capital, featuring the tagline “CBS News. Always On.”
Discussion:
TVNewser, Variety and @alexweprin
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Tumblr uses auto play and looping on mobile to treat videos more like gifs — Tumblr is making videos a lot more like GIFs — Tumblr may be known for moving images, but by and large that's been the GIF — not videos. Tumblr is today trying to address that, changing what it's …
Discussion:
The Next Web
Chris Sutcliffe / TheMediaBriefing:
Global game: The internationalisation of UK newspaper audiences — The odds of creating a profitable digital newspaper operation in the UK look long for pretty much every national title. Our population simply isn't that big, and unless you can sell a lot of pricey digital subscriptions, the advertising economics simply don't add up.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Brian Roberts: NBC, Harry Potter Ride Boost Comcast's Q3 Profit — Cable and entertainment giant Comcast saw its third-quarter net income soar nearly 50%, thanks to a favorable tax adjustment and improving performance at its NBCUniversal unit. The Philadelphia company …
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CNNMoney.com, New York Times, Deadline, The Wrap, @xpangler, Reuters, Associated Press and Wall Street Journal
Gay Alcorn / Guardian:
Lachlan Murdoch attacks special laws to jail journalists for up to 10 years — ‘Our freedom of speech and freedom of the press are not things we should blindly entrust to anyone’ — Lachlan Murdoch has attacked new laws that could see journalists jailed for up to 10 years if they disclose information …
Discussion:
Sydney Morning Herald and 9news.com.au
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter.:
Reporter quits Sun-Times, cites ‘chilling effect in the newsroom’ — Chicago Sun-Times reporter Dave McKinney has resigned from the newspaper, saying, “I'm convinced this newspaper no longer has the backs of reporters like me” in a letter to Michael Ferro, chairman of Sun-Times owner Wrapports LLC.
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Chicago Business, Dave McKinney's blog, Guardian, The Wrap, CBS Chicago, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Washington Free Beacon, Talking Points Memo, Chicago Reader, American Press Institute, @marklittlenews, The Huffington Post, Raw Story, @jamesrisen, @petersagal, @gus_savage, @rsamer, @brianstelter, @lynnemarek, @markbrowncst, Chicago magazine, Robert Feder, Chicagoist and The Huffington Post
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