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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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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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AdAge, The Next Web, @andrewmdooley, AllFacebook, @sriramk, Poynter, @lavrusik, @kelseyproud and @stkonrath
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook expanding Trending to mobile and separates news from what friends are discussing
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Facebook, The Whip, @fieldproducer, @lheron, @samir, AllFacebook, Mashable, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and @jayrosen_nyu
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Alan Rusbridger to quit as ‘Guardian’ editor-in-chief after 20 years in role next summer — Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, is set to stand down from his current role at Guardian Media Group in the summer. — The Independent has learned that Rusbridger has discussed …
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Guardian:
Alan Rusbridger appointed chair of The Scott Trust — Award-winning editor-in-chief to stand down after 20 years — The Scott Trust, which safeguards the editorial future and independence of the Guardian, has appointed Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, to succeed Dame Liz Forgan as its chair.
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@arusbridger, The Huffington Post, @lisaappignanesi, @mannmuller and @katz
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 …
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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Google Europe Blog, Guardian, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNET, @albertocairo, @gsterling, @dangillmor and The Spain Report
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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New York Times, @csoghoian, @justinbrookman, @waltmossberg, @jpnkevin_t, The Next Web, @eastdakota, @fmanjoo, @kevinmitnick, @csoghoian, @dangillmor and Engadget
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
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nick Denton to institute new seven-person managing partnership at Gawker, names Tommy Craggs as editor — Gawker Media Shuffles Org Chart, Names Tommy Craggs Top Editor — Gawker Media has placed Tommy Craggs, who had previously run the blog network's Deadspin site …
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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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@swatigauri, @anupkaphle, FishbowlDC, @meridak, @anupkaphle and @postbaron
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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Copy me happy, VentureBeat, The Next Web, TorrentFreak, Techdirt, Washington Post, Washington Post, @brokep and ZDNet
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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@jafurtado and @dtunkelang
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Amazon now lets developers publish HTML5 web apps for its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick — Amazon today added full support for publishing HTML5 web apps to its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices. The feature is available as part of the company's existing HTML5 web app publishing toolset …
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GitHub, TechCrunch and The Next Web
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