Mediagazer: Rupert Murdoch urges media firms to unite to fight Amazon and Netflix (Dominic Rushe/Guardian)

8:45 AM ET, October 30, 2014

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

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New York Times:

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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 …

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Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

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Liam Andrew / Nieman Lab:

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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David Folkenflik / NPR:

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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.

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.

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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 …

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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 …

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