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Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
British journalist John Cantlie used as ‘Isil reporter’ inside Kobane — John Cantlie, a British journalist who is being held captive by Isil inside Syria, has appeared in a sixth propaganda video — The British freelance journalist held hostage by Isil jihadists has appeared …
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Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Jim Foley's imprisonment: from capture to murder — ISIS Hostages Endured Torture and Dashed Hopes, Freed Cellmates Say — The hostages were taken out of their cell one by one. — In a private room, their captors asked each of them three intimate questions, a standard technique used …
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@shreeyasinha, Columbia Journalism Review, bookforum.com, Hit & Run and Gawker
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google News should favor news organizations that build trust by using clear standards, including citations and disclosures — Building trust in news — In their Trust Project, Richard Gingras, head of Google News, and Sally Lehrman, a fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics …
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Gigaom, @jbenton, @emilybell, @emilybell, @craignewmark, @stkonrath, @chanders, @ksablan and @chanders
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy. — Mr. Marra's team designs the code …
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Pressthink, Gigaom, @joepompeo, Gawker, @antderosa, FishbowlNY, SocialTimes, The New York Observer, @mmasnick, bookforum.com, @clarajeffery and New York Times
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters — Yahoo News 3 hrs ago — The FBI has identified an employee of a federal contracting firm suspected of being the so-called second leaker who turned over sensitive documents about the U.S. government's terrorist watch list …
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SlashGear, @isikoff, @mlcalderone, The Hill, The Verge, Business Insider, @evacide, Hit & Run, Techdirt and The Huffington Post
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Twitter Q3 MAU up 23% to 284M, a decline of 1% in growth compared to Q2; sales doubled to $361M, stock down more than 10% after hours — Twitter's Stock Drops as Its Struggles to Attract New Users Continue — SAN FRANCISCO — Dick Costolo, Twitter's chief executive …
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Forbes, TechCrunch, Guardian, TechCrunch, @jeffbercovici, @sacca and The Verge
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Amazon buys comedy service Rooftop Media to expand digital content — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is buying online comedy service Rooftop Media, a small deal that underscores the Internet retailer's broader ambition of becoming a media and entertainment powerhouse.
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Hollywood Reporter, The Digital Reader, GeekWire, Forbes, VentureBeat and Engadget
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
USA Today's Susan Page: Obama administration most ‘dangerous’ to media in history — At some point, a compendium of condemnations against the Obama administration's record of media transparency (actually, opacity) must be assembled. Notable quotations in this vein come from former …
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@sunlorrie, @erikwemple, @ericboehlert, @timfernholz and The Daily Caller
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
One week later, Google algorithm change hits streaming, torrent sites hard — After early efforts in 2012, it appears Google's gotten the results it wanted. — Video streaming and torrent sites have dropped precipitously in Google rankings after the company altered its algorithm last Monday, according to reports from Searchmetrics.
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Business Insider and BGR
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Amazon's crowdsourced publishing program, Kindle Scout, is now open for voting — With Kindle Scout, Amazon's taking a 21st century approach to publishing, letting readers nominate which books progress to funding. It's like your favorite reality TV show, except for books.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information — As a fresh wave of Ebola fear grips the American public, the Internet is rife with conspiracy theories, supposed miracle cures and Twitter posts of dread. — But amid the fear mongering are several influential sites that are sticking to the facts about Ebola.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @onlinesig, @patiencehaggin, @lpolgreen and American Press Institute
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.
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english.ahram.org.eg, @dlepeska and American Press Institute
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