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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:
Sen. Al Franken asks Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for answers on privacy, God view tool, discipline for Emil Michael, and tracking journalists — Dear Mr Kalanick — I am writing in regard to reports of recent comments and actions by top Uber executives concerning journalists.
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Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, CNNMoney.com, Politico, @startupljackson, New York Times, Engadget, BuzzFeed, @crampell, @ivanthek, The Next Web, Bloomberg Politics and @cbdawson
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Ashton Kutcher, here's what's wrong with Uber ‘digging up dirt’ on journalists
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BuzzFeed:
Uber investigating its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, for tracking BuzzFeed journalist's location without her consent
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Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called ‘God View’
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Steve Albini / Guardian:
Music producer Steve Albini discusses how the music industry is thriving on the internet, the death of labels, and copyright law — Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry - in full — The music producer, Shellac frontman and author of seminal 1993 essay …
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Alexandra Bruell / AdAge:
Condé Nast Agrees to GroupM's Tougher Ad Viewability Standards — Condé 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.
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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Capital New York, Poynter, @jackshafer, @carr2n and Talking Biz News
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Reuters To Cut Jobs Despite Budget Increase
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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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@stkonrath, @pjpeterpower and Rory Peck Trust
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
8tracks streaming music service aims to be a ‘better friend’ to indie labels — With 8m users, site also wants to be ‘better about how we matchmake between listener and DJ’ — It's easy for the debate around digital music to be dominated by the big services, from iTunes and Spotify to YouTube and SoundCloud.
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 …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Pop Up Archive releases new audio transcription features — New podcasting initiatives, including “Serial”, “StartUp” and “Radiotopia” have lately attracted a lot of attention from reporters and investors. — But with all this new audio being gathered and posted to the Web, how can journalists and their audiences parse it?
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Satta Sarmah / Fast Company:
Female Journalists are Launching Their Own Media Ventures That Could Rewrite How the Industry Produces and Funds Content — Not many journalists would leave a high-profile job at one of America's most storied newspapers to create their own startup. — But that's exactly what former Wall …
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@_workingmother_, @pmarca, @jyarbrough, @damon and @iwflf
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Solutions in Seattle: A partnership has helped The Seattle Times rethink its education coverage — For nearly two decades, a community group on Chicago's Northwest Side has been recruiting parents to spend more time in their children's schools. Since its formation in 1995 …
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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SlashGear and AppleInsider
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
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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