Mediagazer: 300 police media leak probes in five years - forces refuse to reveal how many involved RIPA spying (William Turvill/Press Gazette)

9:55 AM ET, October 30, 2014

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NYT Q3 results: $364.7M revenue, 1.3% increased circulation, operating loss of $9M, digital subs up 20% year-on-year — The New York Times Company Reports 2014 Third-Quarter Results — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) announced today a third-quarter 2014 …

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Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Flipboard debuts a big redesign and The Daily Edition, a morning news section — With a fresh coat of paint and a handful of new features, Flipboard targets competitors big and small — Finding the right news to read is hard. That's why hundreds of companies have jumped …

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The news business should refuse Facebook's deal — The lure of online ad revenue isn't worth surrendering news judgment to Zuckerberg's algorithm — Facebook wants publishers to become its junior partners, embedding their news and content into Facebook itself (at least on mobile) …

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Anya George Tharakan / Reuters:

Time Warner Cable lost 184K video customers in Q3, revenue rose to $5.71B — Time Warner Cable loses more video customers in latest quarter — (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC.N), the No. 2 U.S. cable TV operator, lost more video subscribers than analysts had expected in the third quarter …

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William Turvill / Press Gazette:

300 police media leak probes in five years - forces refuse to reveal how many involved RIPA spying — Police forces across the UK conducted 302 media leak investigations in a five-year period - many of which may have involved use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to secretly view journalists' phone records.

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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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 …

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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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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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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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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.