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8:05 PM ET, October 25, 2014

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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Lionsgate and Tribeca film studios are launching a new streaming service  —  Now Hollywood is joining the Internet streaming craze.  Lionsgate and Tribeca Enterprises said Monday they will jointly launch an online video service during the first half of next year for movies made by them and outside studios.
Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Adobe updates Digital Edition e-book reader app to stop uploading reading logs in plain text  —  Adobe Updates Digital Edition, Stops Sharing User Info With the Internet  —  Adobe rolled out a new update for their Digital Editions Epub app today, and I have good news, bad news, and okay news.
Discussion: Techdirt and PC Advisor
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Iranian Photojournalist Reportedly Detained After Covering Protest Against Acid Attacks  —  An Iranian photojournalist was reported to have been detained on Friday, two days after his images of protesters deploring acid attacks on women in the city of Isfahan were published by news organizations around the world.
Discussion: Iranwire
Michael Heyward / Whisper:
Whisper responds to Guardian's “10 questions”, says members of editorial team put on leave  —  Setting The Record Straight  —  I wrote last Saturday that we welcome the current discussion around Whisper, and are grateful to those who have shared thoughtful feedback with us.
Jina Moore / BuzzFeed:
How a journalist is coping with life covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia  —  How I'm Coping With Life Inside The Ebola Bubble  —  When Ebola takes away the ability to touch, you have to reinvent the language of compassion.  —  A health worker nears a woman suspected of having Ebola.
Emerging Technology From the arXiv:
Data Mining Reveals How News Coverage Varies Around the World  —  Last year, the news media reported on 195,000 disasters around the world.  The ones you heard about depend crucially on your location.  —  One interesting question about the nature of news is how well it reflects the pattern of real events around the world.
Greg Miller / Wired:
The Speedy Cartographers Who Map the News for The New York Times  —  The New York Times graphics team compiled data from several sources to make this map of the MH17 crash site in a couple hours.  Tim Wallace/The New York Times  —  When Malaysia Airlines flight 17 went down over Ukraine in July …
Discussion: @venkatananth
Tamara Baluja / J-source:
CBC to lose another 400 jobs by March  —  CBC will lose another 400 jobs by March 2015.  —  Canadian Media Guild, the union representing CBC employees, said management has informed them of the impending cuts, which would bring the total number of cuts to CBC at the end of this fiscal year to 1,057.
Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal:
Roku said to be working on IPO plan  —  Roku Inc., a maker of streaming media players, TVs and software, is working on plans to file confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  The company has been working with investment banks including Bank …
Claudia Grisales / Austin American-Statesman:
FCC, FEMA to probe false emergency alert from syndicated radio show, affecting U-Verse, others  —  FEMA, FCC to probe radio show after U-verse emergency alert glitch  —  2:10 p.m. update: The Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a statement Friday afternoon confirming …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Guardian launches open-source data journalism tool  —  Swarmize enables journalists to tell new, collaborative stories by making use of real-time data collection and visualisation  —  Credit: By Jorge Franganillo on Flickr.  Some rights reserved.  —  Collaborative data journalism platform Swarmize …
 
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