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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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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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Ashton Kutcher, here's what's wrong with Uber ‘digging up dirt’ on journalists
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Uber investigating its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, for tracking BuzzFeed journalist's location without her consent
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Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called ‘God View’
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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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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.


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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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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Reuters To Cut Jobs Despite Budget Increase
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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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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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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 …


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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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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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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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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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.