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Michael Wolff / USA Today:
BuzzFeed misled by suggesting everyone present at Uber dinner heard Emil Michael's remarks — Behind the scenes at Uber/BuzzFeed fracas — Uber is at the forefront of a vast reordering of ground transportation and how we use cars. It is also in the middle of many publicity storms.
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Al Franken:
Senator Al Franken asks Travis Kalanick for answers on privacy and targeting journalists — Dear Mr Kalanick — 'I am writing in regard to reports of recent comments and actions by top Yber executives concerning journalists. The reports suggest a troubling disregard for customers? …
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CNNMoney.com, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg Politics and The Next Web
BuzzFeed:
Uber investigating its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, for tracking BuzzFeed journalist's location without her consent — Uber Is Investigating Its Top New York Executive For Privacy Violations — Uber said Tuesday that it is investigating its top New York executive for tracking …
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AVC, TVNewser, Poynter, The Next Web, John Hodgman, Business Insider, mUmBRELLA, @jmhattem, Financial Times, The Hill, Washington Post, TIME, Newsy, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Gothamist, TechCrunch, @cwarzel, @michaelwolffnyc, @tcarmody, The Daily Caller, Guardian, Gawker, @jamesliamcook, New York Magazine, The Baffler, @jayrosen_nyu, The Verge, @jensimmons, @normative, @alexjamesfitz, @schoofsfeed, The Newspaper Guild, SiliconBeat, Engadget, Washington Post, Mashable, @miriamelder, @ahannoun, Gizmodo, SlashGear, @buzzfeedben, @brianstelter, @doreeshafrir, VentureBeat, @mikeisaac, @mekosoff, @mattdpearce, @bluechoochoo, @hunterschwarz, @cbracy, @kateaurthur, @mccollumashley, @stevekovach, @therealdvorak, Talking Biz News and PandoDaily
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Ashton Kutcher, here's what's wrong with Uber ‘digging up dirt’ on journalists
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PandoDaily, Boing Boing, The Verge, @stuartdredge, Talking Points Memo and Business Insider
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called ‘God View’
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BuzzFeed, @jake_k, Talking Points Memo, @kashhill, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, TIME and Storify
Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen to Measure Netflix Viewing — Effort Is Meant to Help Content Owners Gauge Impact of Licensing Shows — Even as Netflix Inc. and other streaming-video providers have expanded to reach 40% of American homes, they have largely remained black boxes.
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VideoNuze Analysis, Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, TIME, Newsy, Engadget, @sampoaxelsson, Deadline, @seidman, @peterlauria3, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, VatorNews, Home Media Magazine, Mashable and @maggiefurlong
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Media critic Jack Shafer leaves Reuters — Media critic Jack Shafer is leaving his job at Reuters, he announced Wednesday evening. … The announcement appears to be among the final gasps of a Web strategy that started a few years back with great optimism.
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@jackshafer, @carr2n and Talking Biz News
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Reuters To Cut Jobs Despite Budget Increase
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@mattzeitlin, Talking Biz News and @s_m_i
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Beats Music to Be Bundled Into iOS Early Next Year, Will Remain Paid Subscription Service — As part of Apple's revamp of its recently acquired Beats Music streaming service, the company plans to bundle Beats directly into iOS, reports Financial Times.
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TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, Hollywood Reporter, PandoDaily, VatorNews, BBC, CNET and Engadget
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Scribner's Magazine to Be Reincarnated as Literary Website — Scribner's Magazine, a literary journal that rivaled Harper's Monthly and the Atlantic Monthly from 1887 until 1939, is being reincarnated as a new literary website launching Wednesday. — The new project is called Scribner Magazine.
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
War journalists ‘being targeted and silenced’, says Rory Peck Trust chief — Tina Carr warns of worst-ever conditions for freelance journalists as winners of the 2014 Rory Peck awards are announced — Freelance journalists are “being targeted and silenced more than ever” in warzones …
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@pjpeterpower, @stkonrath and Rory Peck Trust
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism — Agnès Chauveau suspended as executive director at prestigious Sciences Po school after alleged use of other journalists' work — The executive director of a prestigious Paris journalism school has been suspended after being accused of plagiarism.
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Poynter
Alexandra Bruell / AdAge:
Conde Nast Agrees to GroupM's Tougher Ad Viewability Standards — Cond Nast, the publisher of brands such as Vogue and Style.com, has agreed to GroupM's demand to pay only for online ads that are entirely viewable by consumers, a tougher standard than the industry has been pushing.
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MediaPost
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Apple partnering with Rubicon Project to sell iAds through company's automated marketplace — Apple Is Planning To Turn Around iAd By Venturing Into Programmatic For The First Time — Apple's mobile advertising unit iAd is moving into programmatic advertising for the first time by partnering …
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AppleInsider and SlashGear
Angela Doland / AdAge:
For the First Time, TV Will Account For Less Than Half of China's Ad Spending This Year — For the First Time, TV Will Account For Less Than Half of China's Ad Spending This Year — Going Native: Content Marketing Strategies — It was a tradition of China's ad world …
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
ABC and SBS funding to be cut by $308m over five years — Malcolm Turnbull says the Coalition's budget cuts to the public broadcasters should not affect what Australians see and hear — The budgets of the ABC and the SBS will lose almost $308m over five years, but it should not affect …
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Malcolm Turnbull MP
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Former Huffington Post M.E. Jimmy Soni lands gig at New York Observer — Jimmy Soni's departure several months ago from The Huffington Post, after having risen quickly through the ranks there from serving as Arianna Huffington's chief of staff to becoming the site's powerful …
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FishbowlNY
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
NBC Pulls Bill Cosby Comedy Project Amid Rape Allegations — NBC has dropped its Bill Cosby comedy project as the scandal of rape allegations leveled at the comedian by multiple women made it untenable for the network to keep it in development, according to multiple sources.
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Hollywood Reporter, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, The Wrap, AdAge, The Verge, Media & Entertainment, Inside TV, Mediaite, Reuters, Splitsider and Hollywood Life
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Lynn Elber / Associated Press:
Netflix postpones launch of Cosby comedy special
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NetNewsCheck Latest, The Wrap, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @cwarzel, USA Today, Variety, Arts & Life, CNN, Deadline and Forbes
Dara Lind / Vox:
An interview with founder Neil Barsky and editor Bill Keller of The Marshall Project on the state of criminal justice journalism — Why Bill Keller left the New York Times to put a spotlight on criminal justice — This week marks the launch of the Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism …
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