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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 Uber executives concerning journalists. The report suggests a troubling disregard for customers' privacy …
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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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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Ashton Kutcher, here's what's wrong with Uber ‘digging up dirt’ on journalists
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VatorNews, PandoDaily, Boing Boing, The Verge, Business Insider and @stuartdredge
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called ‘God View’
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BuzzFeed, Talking Points Memo, @kashhill, Boing Boing, @jake_k, TechCrunch, TIME and Storify
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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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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@oliverburkeman, @tomgara, @mattzeitlin, Talking Biz News and @s_m_i
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, TIME, Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Newsy, Engadget, @seidman, @peterlauria3, @sampoaxelsson, Deadline, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, VatorNews, Home Media Magazine, Mashable and @maggiefurlong
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, BBC, The Verge, PandoDaily, CNET and Engadget
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
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 …
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.
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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Knight Foundation
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
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
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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