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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast 3Q Net Income Soars Nearly 50% On Tax Adjustment, NBCU Results — Cable and entertainment giant Comcast Corp. saw its third-quarter net income soar nearly 50%, thanks to a favorable tax adjustment and improving performance at its NBCUniversal unit. The Philadelphia...
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New York Times, Bloomberg, 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 …
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Sydney Morning Herald and 9news.com.au
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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Gigaom and @stkonrath
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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Dave McKinney's blog, Chicago Business, CBS Chicago, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Washington Free Beacon, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Chicago Reader, @gus_savage, @rsamer, @brianstelter, @marklittlenews, @petersagal, @markbrowncst, @lynnemarek, @jamesrisen, Chicago magazine, Robert Feder, The Huffington Post and The Huffington Post
Tilmann Knoll / INMA:
Media organizations compete with and need to learn from tech start-ups in recruiting young talent — How much start-up culture do we need to attract young talent? — Young professionals seek careers in start-ups because they want to work in a creative environment while playing a direct role in shaping a company's future.
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.”
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TVNewser and @alexweprin
Max Read / Gawker:
Gawker posts belated retort to Gamergate campaign targeting advertisers and partners, says thousands in revenue lost — How We Got Rolled by the Dishonest Fascists of Gamergate — On October 1, the computing giant Intel pulled its ads from Gamasutra, a trade website for game developers …
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Ars Technica, @voxday, @nero, @jayrosen_nyu, @max_read, @_icze4r, @caityweaver, @20committee, Business Insider, @amandamarcotte, @swin24, @stephentotilo, @jfairbairn, @tomgara, @pbump, @theandrewbriggs, @tomewing, @max_read, Re/code, Boing Boing and The Verge
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
Tim Herrera / Washington Post:
Inside the contradictory world of Thought Catalog, one of the Internet's most reviled sites — “Transphobia Is Perfectly Natural,” and “Ferguson, Missouri Looks Like A Rap Video”: So declared headlines on two consecutive days this past August from early adulthood-angst purveyor Thought Catalog, a Web site for and by millennials.
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@newsliteracy
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
How Entertainment Companies Are Fighting Lawsuits Over Disclosures of Who's Watching — As HBO, CBS and ESPN launch online subscription services, they will have to be mindful of a 1988 law that has sparked widespread privacy claims — It's no secret that privacy is a scorching hot issue in the tech world …
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
New media and legacy media came together at the second weekend-long “hackathon” hosted by the Society for News Design. — The Society for News Design hosted its second #SNDMakes hackathon in Boston this past weekend. The last iteration of the event was held in Indianapolis …
Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
Barbara Walters' ‘10 Most Fascinating People’ Resurrected — “Never mind,” ABC said — or words to that effect — about last year's announcement Babs Walters was ending her 10 Most Fascinating People Of Fill In The Year franchise. This morning, the network announced it has decided to bring …
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