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Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Reuters TV aims to personalize news broadcasts — With Reuters TV, a smart video app for news junkies, Reuters is once again trying to establish itself as a consumer brand. — The news giant unveiled Reuters TV at a Monday night soiree in its Times Square headquarters.
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@moorehn, @antderosa, Quartz, Talking Biz News, @digiday, @brianstelter and @bbcsteveh
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Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Reuters announces on-demand Reuters TV to launch in 2015 — International news agency Reuters just announced Reuters TV its on demand video news service coming in 2015. — The new service and companion app expands the news agency's reach beyond the written word with up-to-date news coverage …
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
The New Yorker rolls out metered paywall — The New Yorker launched a metered paywall Tuesday morning, the magazine's editors announced in an editors' note. The paywall allows non-subscribers to access six free articles—whether they are print magazine pieces or online-only stories—and an unlimited number of videos per month.
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New Yorker, FishbowlNY and @petersterne
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Matt Buchanan / The Awl:
Modified paywall returns Tuesday to New Yorker, with 6 free articles/month, no free archive
Modified paywall returns Tuesday to New Yorker, with 6 free articles/month, no free archive
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bookforum.com, @tcarmody, @choire, @ceodonovan, @samkirkla, @velocitywong, @michaelroston and @ruths
Hanna Rosin / The New Republic:
Disgraced reporter Stephen Glass opens up to an old colleague and apologizes, 16 years after his fall — Hello, My Name Is Stephen Glass, and I'm Sorry — He nearly destroyed this magazine. Sixteen years later, his former best friend finally confronts him.
Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog:
Spotify hits 12.5M subscribers, has paid music industry over $2B, top artists like Taylor Swift on track to exceed $6M — $2 Billion and Counting — Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it. We started Spotify because we love music and piracy was killing it.
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Re/code, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Mashable and The Next Web
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Washington Post: Zakaria columns ‘problematic’ — The Washington Post is likely to add editor's notes to five columns by Fareed Zakaria in the wake of a report by plagiarism watchdog Our Bad Media, Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt told POLITICO on Monday.
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Our Bad Media, @hofrench, @popehat, @bretbaier, @mlcalderone, @buzzfeedben, @joshuafoust and Poynter
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Matter announces finalists for international reporting fellowship — Matter announced an international reporting fellowship in September. It pays pretty well: $10,000 plus another $5,000 for travel expenses. On Tuesday morning the publication, which is owned by Medium, named six finalists …
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Medium
Re/code:
President Obama's net neutrality proposal may seem like a victory, but language surrounding interconnection and usage-based pricing lacks clarity — What President Obama's Net Neutrality Proposal Means — President Obama's broadband announcement seems like a big victory for net neutrality activists …
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Washington Post, FCC.gov, Talking Biz News, TIME and The Verge
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Aaron Pressman / Yahoo! Finance:
Obama's call for net neutrality spells trouble for Time Warner Cable-Comcast deal
Obama's call for net neutrality spells trouble for Time Warner Cable-Comcast deal
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@brianstelter, Variety, Multichannel News, @ampressman, Businessweek, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Gigaom
Allison Quinn / The Moscow Times:
Kommersant Editor Steps Down Amid Rumors of Pressure From Above — The editor-in-chief of business daily Kommersant has resigned, triggering speculation Monday that he was forced out over a recent article in the newspaper about oil giant Rosneft. — While theories behind the move multiplied …
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Tom Parfitt / Telegraph:
Russia launches ‘Sputnik’ media offensive to counter US propaganda
Russia launches ‘Sputnik’ media offensive to counter US propaganda
Discussion:
BuzzFeed, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal and Reuters
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Russia Today threatened with Ofcom sanctions due to bias
Russia Today threatened with Ofcom sanctions due to bias
Discussion:
FishbowlNY, Politico, @charliebeckett and @akarlin88
Jonah Bromwich / New York Times:
Vimeo pushes into original content, funds “High Maintenance” directly, charges $2 per episode — With ‘High Maintenance,’ Vimeo Invests in Original Content — “High Maintenance,” a web series on Vimeo about the many customers of a Brooklyn marijuana dealer, has won a devoted following and plenty of critical acclaim.
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Glenn Beck of The Blaze announces that he's recovering from debilitating neurological illness — Glenn Beck Suffering From Rare Neurological Illness That ‘Made Me Look Crazy’ — On Monday evening, Glenn Beck revealed to his audience at TheBlaze that for the last five years he has been suffering …
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TVNewser, TheBlaze.com, @howardkurtz, @glennbeck, @glennbeck, The Huffington Post, @howardkurtz and Salon
Press Gazette:
Met anti-terrorism database holds more than 2,000 records relating to journalists — The Metropolitan Police holds more than 2,000 records relating to journalists and photographers on a confidential anti-extemist database, it has been reported today. — The records are held …
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The Times
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
BuzzFeed's deal with Facebook to measure political sentiment has one major flaw — BuzzFeed has formed a partnership with Facebook that gives it access to the social network's “sentiment analysis” data on millions of users — but Facebook's algorithm is going to influence the thing that BuzzFeed …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed, ABC News to use Facebook's sentiment data as a polling source for 2016 elections
BuzzFeed, ABC News to use Facebook's sentiment data as a polling source for 2016 elections
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@lheron, @ron_fournier, @dylanbyers, @jenn_clark, @mjenkins, @mikeisaac, @johnness and Poynter
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Sweden The Latest To Consider Google “Link Tax” For Newspapers — A member of the Swedish parliament, Niclas Malmberg, wants Google to help fund Swedish news publications along the lines of the French model established last year. Threatened with a “link tax,” Google agreed …
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@sengineland and @patrickhealy