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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Gamergate and how Internet users think about gaming and harassment — I will have some more thoughts on the new Pew Research Center study on online harassment tomorrow. But I thought it was worth discussing the survey's findings on gaming and harassment separately given the ongoing tsuris over Gamergate.
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Pew Internet, Felicia's Melange, Medium, Vox, @alyssarosenberg, TIME, The Mary Sue, Mashable and Guardian
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Martin Belam / Mirror:
How #GamerGate got the attention of the mainstream media... and crashed and burned — It's the long running uncivil war in the video games industry that the mainstream media has woken up and noticed. And it is not impressed — It's traditional for articles about #GamerGate to start …
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Salon, Telegraph, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Verge, Mashable and The Week
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Post and Daily News discussed working together; News considering digital-only future — A New York tabloid detente that wasn't — What if New York City's two tabloids, those famously bloody newsstand warriors, joined forces? — Recently, the age-old rivals were considering just that, Capital has learned.
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FishbowlNY and @joepompeo
BBC:
A Burmese journalist has been shot dead while trying to escape from custody, the army has said. — A Burmese journalist has been shot dead while trying to escape from custody, the army has said. — A military statement said that Aung Naing was arrested in Mon state at the end of September …
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Associated Press, The Irrawaddy Magazine and mizzima.com
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
News Corp mulls senior US post for former editor Rebekah Brooks — Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is considering a return to the payroll for Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the Sun and the News of the World, with a senior job in New York. — Cleared of phone hacking charges earlier this year …
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Capital New York, Guardian, New York Times, @jayrosen_nyu, @morgancarlston and @matthewwells
Guardian:
Jay Rockefeller summons Whisper execs to Capital Hill to answer questions on tracking, privacy — Ten privacy questions Whisper should answer for Senate committee — Whisper executives have been summoned to Capitol Hill to answer questions about how the app tracks its users
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@jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, PandoDaily, Gawker, The Hill, The Verge and Re/code
Adrian Chen / Wired:
The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed — The campuses of — the tech industry are famous for their lavish cafeterias, cushy shuttles, and on-site laundry services. But on a muggy February afternoon, some of these companies' most important work …
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Gizmodo UK, @ar_pitman, @colininspace, @jderryberry, @digiphile, @ldallett, @condehrw, @jasonopus, @zahidinnorcal, @taongaleslie, @kateo, Gawker and The FJP
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Guardian Media CEO calls on BBC to share breaking news video feed, open archives; criticizes Australia expansion — GMG boss calls on the BBC to open up its content to commercial rivals — Andrew Miller criticises the corporation's Australia expansion and urges it to share video feeds of breaking news stories
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Guardian, Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, TheMediaBriefing, Business Insider, The Drum, The Drum, The Times, @crbmidlands and mUmBRELLA
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Behind the scenes of Hive, NYT's open platform for creating crowdsourcing projects off any data set — Why The New York Times built a tool for crowdsourced time travel — Flipping through old magazine and newspaper ads is like throwing the switch on the world's simplest time machine.
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@zimbalist, @niemanlab, @changeist and @jayrosen_nyu
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Studios to Reap $6.8 Billion From SVOD Syndication in 2015 — Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime are going to be a godsend to Hollywood's major studios in the coming years, if projections issued Thursday from RBC Capital Markets are any indication. Analyst...
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
AMC Networks to Buy 49.9 Percent Stake in BBC America for $200 Million — BBC Worldwide has been looking to strengthen its channel in carriage talks with pay TV operators — AMC Networks has agreed to acquire a 49.9 percent stake in BBC Worldwide's BBC America for $200 million.
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Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Multichannel News, USA Today, TVNewser, Wall Street Journal, London Evening Standard, UPI, Reuters, City A.M., Rapid TV News, Broadband TV News, BBC, Reuters, Variety, Telegraph, Deadline, Deadline, Guardian, io9, Digital Spy, Inside TV, AMC Networks Inc. and Associated Press
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
After suing Imgur over copyright, photographer's archive of 20K+ images uploaded to Pirate Bay — Photographer Who Sued Imgur Now Has a Pirate Bay Problem — When it comes to online piracy most attention usually goes out to music, TV-shows and movies. However, photos are arguably the most-infringed works online.
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Softpedia News and Business Insider