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Allie Townsend / Facebook Media:
Facebook releases new tools for publishers to offer greater automation and better targeting, improves Insights, fixes referrer data bug for iOS — New Tools and Insights for Publishers — Over the past few months, we've listened to publishers around the world to better understand …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook Gives Publishers New Tools, Hopes They'll Use Them to Give Facebook More Stuff — Facebook has been courting content companies for years, because it wants content companies to bring more of their content to Facebook. Here's a new example: A set of tools that will make it easier …
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Digiday, @mikeisaac, @mattbuchanan, @mims, @reynoldscj, @ahenkin, @jaynawallace and Mashable
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook expanding Trending to mobile and separates news from what friends are discussing
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Speculation swirls about Rusbridger's successor; Scott Trust will have final say after pitches — Alan Rusbridger's 20-year Guardian editorship nears its end — Alan Rusbridger, longtime editor in chief of The Guardian and the embodiment of its modern era, will step down from his post …
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Alan Rusbridger to quit as ‘Guardian’ editor-in-chief after 20 years in role next summer
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google News to shut down in Spain Dec. 16 in response to recently passed Spanish copyright law — Strict New “Copyright Law” Forces End Of Google News In Spain — Google has decided to shut down Google News in Spain. This drastic step will occur next week and is the result …
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Alex Howard / E Pluribus Unum:
Deadline is Thursday for US House to pass Freedom of Information law reforms — With hours of sunshine left, passage of FOIA reform in the U.S. House hangs in the balance — Imagine if an important reform to public access to government information hung in the balance in the United States Congress …
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Bloomberg Passed Over Its Top Woman Editor In Hiring A New Boss — When the memo dropped on Tuesday morning, Bloomberg's Manhattan newsroom went silent. Office banter ceased and keyboards stopped clacking, as reporters and editors read the note from Michael Bloomberg announcing …
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John Waggoner / USA Today:
Bloomberg and Businessweek to merge websites into renamed Bloomberg Business
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Re/code:
Sources: Sony Pictures using AWS to execute denial-of-service attack on sites where its stolen data is available — Sony Pictures Tries to Disrupt Downloads of its Stolen Files — Sony Pictures Entertainment is fighting back. — The studio behind the “Spider-Man” franchise and …
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Netflix wants its app on cable providers' set-top boxes, may be nearing a deal with AT&T — Netflix wants to hook up with your cable company in 2015 — Netflix's new strategy to take on cable involves becoming best friends with cable: The video streaming service has been working hard …
Reuters:
Dish wants to keep broadcasters out of basic Web TV service -WSJ — Dish Network Corp does not want to include broadcast channels in the basic package for its planned online TV service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Press Association:
UK Home Office draft code of conduct would allow police access to journalist's phone records — Home Office draft code of conduct raises concern with media bodies — Draft publication states that communications data is not subject to professional privilege, as NUJ calls for ‘shield law’ to protect reporters from state snooping
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde says he's happy to see site gone — “The site was ugly, full of bugs, old code and old design.” — One of the founders of The Pirate Bay (TPB) has bid good riddance to the site that he helped build a decade ago, which may have been definitively shuttered this week.
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Washington Post:
Detention taking ‘devastating toll’ on Post reporter detained in Iran — The prison cell that has been Jason Rezaian's home for most of the past 141 days has no mattress. He has slept on blankets on the hard floor and awakened each morning with back pain, for which he has received no treatment.
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@rickgladstone, @anupkaphle, @postbaron, FishbowlDC, @swatigauri, @meridak and @anupkaphle
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: EU's right to be forgotten rule is dangerous for history and free speech — Web founder: Europe's ‘right to be forgotten’ rule is dangerous — Tim Berners-Lee thinks scrubbing false information off the Web is fine, but the truth should be preserved for reasons of free speech and history.
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