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9:40 AM ET, October 27, 2014

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David Carr / New York Times:
As Facebook considers hosting content on mobile, publishers worry about losing control  —  Facebook Offers Life Raft, but Publishers Are Wary  —  For publishers, Facebook is a bit like that big dog galloping toward you in the park.  More often than not, it's hard to tell whether he wants to play with you or eat you.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Whisper editorial staff placed on leave includes editor-in-chief Neetzan Zimmerman  —  Whisper Suspends Some Editorial Staff Following Guardian Report  —  Anonymous messaging app Whisper has suspended some members of its editorial staff in the wake of a troubling article from the Guardian …
Discussion: VatorNews and @jayrosen_nyu
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Michael Heyward / Whisper:
Whisper responds to Guardian's “10 questions”, says members of editorial team put on leave
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi fired from CBC over public revelations of his private sex life, plans to sue for $50M  —  Ghomeshi says he was fired from CBC over sex life being made public  —  The CBC has ended its relationship with renowned broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi after receiving information that …
Brendan Nyhan / New York Times:
Studies show Americans don't in fact live in information cocoons of like-minded media sources  —  Americans Don't Live in Information Cocoons  —  In this polarized age, have citizens retreated into information cocoons of like-minded media sources?  —  A new Pew Research Center report found …
Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Amazon Announces New Streaming Device, Fire TV Stick, Special Limited Pricing Of $19  —  This morning Amazon announced a new HDMI streaming device called the Fire TV Stick, which is already available for pre-order and will ship before black Friday.  (Nov. 19th) Amazon is offering Prime members …
Jay Rosen / The Conversation:
Journalists need a point of view if they want to stay relevant  —  If extreme polarization is now an enduring feature of American politics — not just a bug — how does that change the game for journalists?  I have some ideas, but mainly I want to put that question on the...
Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
Financial Times launches aggregation service FirstFT, curating must-reads from across the web  —  Financial Times unveils FirstFT email aggregator to cut through stream ‘information overload’  —  The Financial Times has unveiled a FirstFT email aggregator for readers using news from FT …
Discussion: Financial Times
Alexander Klöpping / Medium:
Blendle, a Dutch news aggregator that charges by the article, announces $3.8M in funding from NYT and Axel Springer for European expansion  —  Today our journalistic startup got backed by The New York Times and Axel Springer  —  Less than six months ago we launched our journalism startup Blendle out of Utrecht in The Netherlands.
Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:
From AIDS to Ebola: Journalism, disease, and the mentality of fear  —  I remember a day back in the 1980s when I first met a person who I thought had AIDS.  I was sitting at the front desk of the old storefront building of the Poynter Institute when a tall gaunt man entered through the glass doors and approached me with a question.
Discussion: Slate, @raju, @venkatananth and @poynter
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egyptian Media to Limit Criticism of Government  —  CAIRO — A group of Egyptian newspaper editors pledged Sunday to limit their criticism of state institutions, a day after Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, warned of a “conspiracy” behind a militant attack last week that killed at least 31 soldiers.
Discussion: @dlepeska and english.ahram.org.eg
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Q&A with Nate Silver on launch of Signals, FiveThirtyEight's data-driven film project  —  Nate Silver's model shows digital video winning for FiveThirtyEight  —  Seven months after launching FiveThirtyEight as an standalone site under ESPN, founder Nate Silver is bringing his data-flavored journalism to video.
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Ben Bradlee Could Teach Us All a Thing or Two About Real Disruption  —  When he died this week at 93 years old, the kudos for and remembrances of former Washington Post editor extraordinaire Ben Bradlee flooded across the Internet in a blast-from-the-past exudation.
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
The biggest threat to press rights may be a failure to understand them  —  Jeff Hermes of the Media Law and Resource Center discusses the legal needs of a new generation of news organizations  —  It's a cliché to say so, but we're at a moment of transition for American journalism.
Discussion: @cjr
 
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John McDermott / Digiday:
The NYT loves native, not so much programmatic
Discussion: @digiday
Noah Everett / Twitpic Blog:
Twitpic agrees to give Twitter the Twitpic.com domain and photo archive, site to remain in read-only mode
Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Adobe updates Digital Edition e-book reader app to stop uploading reading logs in plain text
Discussion: Techdirt
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Iranian Photojournalist Reportedly Detained After Covering Protest Against Acid Attacks
Discussion: Iranwire
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