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4:55 AM ET, October 30, 2014

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How Harvard Business Review wins social media  —  The phrase “clickable content” is unlikely to bring to mind thrilling headlines from the Harvard Business Review.  Despite a redesign four years ago, the niche business publication has fought a reputation of being an academic journal for the business elite …
Liam Andrew / Nieman Lab:
Controlled chaos: As journalism and documentary film converge in digital, what lessons can they share?  —  Documentary film and journalism are, in many ways, rooted in the same traditions.  Though focus on narrative often differentiates film from traditional journalism …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NPR to open Seoul bureau  —  National Public Radio Wednesday revealed plans to open a bureau in Seoul, South Korea, naming culture and technology reporter Elise Hu its Asia correspondent there.  —  In addition to being at the heart of technological and economic force, the bureau …
Discussion: Hey Elise, @akikofujita and @elisewho
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch urges media firms to unite to fight Amazon and Netflix  —  21st Century Fox chairman says industry is ‘on the same page’ about need to come up with serious competitor to streaming video giants  —  The media industry needs its own competitor to online streaming giants Amazon and Netflix …
Discussion: Gigaom and Hollywood Reporter
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
‘Space journalism’: How ProPublica tells stories using satellites  —  Knight-Mozilla fellow and ‘space journalist’ Brian Jacobs explains how ProPublica tells the story of disappearing wetlands in Louisiana using NASA satellites  —  Credit: Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Flickr.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
PBS NewsHour Enters Partnership With The Atlantic Magazine  —  The Atlantic magazine is teaming up with PBS's “NewsHour” in a pact that will produce the first regular broadcast adaptation rof reporting from the periodical, which focuses on long-form journalism and ideas.
Geoffrey King / Committee to Protect Journalists:
For journalists coming into US, policies border on the absurd  —  I was only supposed to be in Miami for the briefest of layovers.  I was en route to San Francisco from São Paulo in Brazil, where I had participated in the NETMundial Conference on Internet governance along with hundreds …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Behind The Scenes, Storyful Exposes Viral Hoaxes For News Outlets  —  Listen to the Story  —  At most news organizations, journalists celebrate when they get a story in print, on air or online.  —  At Storyful, editors high-five when they knock a story down.
Discussion: @mjbroersma and @mjenkins
Berivan Orucoglu / Foreign Policy:
Turkish government wants Twitter to remove current, future accounts for Today's Zaman editor  —  Turkey's Twitter Wars Heat Up  —  As the Turkish government continues to squeeze freedom of expression, many Turks have found themselves resorting increasingly to social media in order to learn what's going on in their country.
Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
MPAA and National Association of Theatre Owners Ban Google Glass, Other Wearable Tech  —  Glasses, smartwatches and other devices must be turned off and stowed  —  Don't plan on being able to wear your Google Glass or smartwatch when heading to the movies.
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Wolfgang Blau / Guardian:
Guardian US launches responsive, redesigned website with flexible section pages
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Google Play Movies is getting second-screen smarts for Chromecast  —  What that guy's name again?  Wasn't he in that other movie too?  Google Play Movies users can now find relevant information in the app's new second-screen experience as they watch a flick on the big screen.
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Cantlie/ISIS video raises ethical questions about broadcasting material produced by kidnappers  —  Echoes of Patty Hearst in Kobani  —  A propaganda video released on Monday by Islamic State militants in Syria, recorded in the besieged city of Kobani and narrated by a hostage …
Discussion: @ravisomaiya
Brewster / Internet Archive Blogs:
Internet Archive launches new tools to open archiving process to media-based communities  —  Building Libraries Together: New Tools for a New Direction  —  Let's work together to save all human knowledge.  Today the Internet Archive is announcing a new beta site and new tools to encourage everyone to lend a hand.
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The Moscow Times:   Russia Bans Wayback Machine Internet Archive Over Islamic State Video
Jonathan Kaiman / Guardian:
Hong Kong protests bring crisis of confidence for traditional media  —  Young turn to social media as newspapers and TV stations owned by local tycoons take care not to offend mainland China  —  Every time Alice Lau visits Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, she wears two photo ID badges …
Discussion: @tomgrundy and @dangillmor
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Australia Channel Replaces ABC's Australia Network  —  HONG KONG — The Australia Channel will take to the airwaves in international markets in a place previously occupied by the Australia Network, which closed definitively at the end of September.  The...
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Scotsman titles to merge with up to 45 job losses  —  Johnston Press announces flagship daily will share operations with Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News  —  The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News are to merge operations with the loss of up to 45 jobs.
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Unmasking Yelp Users Would Hurt Free Speech, Warn Google and Facebook  —  Google, Facebook and Twitter are warning that giving companies the power to unmask anonymous Yelp reviewers would strike a blow to Internet free speech.  —  “The right to speak anonymously would be greatly diminished …
Discussion: @wsjlawblog
 
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E.J. Boyer / Nashville Business Journal:
YouTube heads deeper into music territory, announcing new partnership with Country Music Association
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Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK newspaper ad revenue returns to growth as digital income surges
Diana Marszalek / NetNewsCheck:
Alt Weeklies Plan To Launch Online Radio
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Why the newspaper industry is leaving six-month circulation reports behind
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
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Theo Padnos / New York Times:
Theo Padnos, American Journalist, on Being Kidnapped, Tortured and Released in Syria
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Digital chief Denise Warren leaves the Times
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
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Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
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