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Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Reveal Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication — The end result: kudos at the studio and an email to Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.” — New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd speaks during a taping of Meet the Press at the NBC studios.
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Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report:
Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure — NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google News is right to shut down in Spain in order to fight against the link tax and for the freedom of the web — Spain's link tax forces Google News to shut there — Google News just announced that Spain's recently passed link tax has forced the net giant to remove Spanish publishers …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Why Publishing Stolen Sony Data is Problematic but Necessary — The more Sony Pictures data keeps leaking, the more my moral compass spins like a weather vane in a hurricane. — What just a week ago seemed such a clear-cut case of doing what my instincts have told me do to every other moment …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter users are more likely to watch TV, and to pay for it, new Ipsos study shows — Twitter Users Love TV So Much They'll Pay to Watch — The TV Industrial Complex is having a ratings problem, an advertising problem and a subscriber problem. — But if everyone used Twitter, those problems would go away!
Telegraph:
Former News of the World features editor Jules Stenson pleads guilty to conspiracy to intercept voicemails — Jules Stenson admits phone hacking at News of the World — Ex-News of the World features editor pleads guilty at Old Bailey to intercepting voicemails over four years at newspaper
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Japan's new state secrets law sparks concerns about governmental control over the press — Suffering a media free-for-all, Japanese press now has the government weighing in — In Japan this year, the reporters have become the reported. — It's seems there's been one journalism furor …
Agence France-Presse:
Jakarta Post editor faces up to 5 years in blasphemy case over publication of ISIS cartoon — Indonesian editor accused of blasphemy over ISIS cartoon — The chief editor of a leading English-language newspaper in Muslim-majority Indonesia has been named a suspect in a blasphemy case …
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PandoDaily:
Twitter suspends journalist's account after he publishes public document — A troubling story out of Berkeley tonight. Local journalist Darwin BondGraham has had his Twitter account suspended after tweeting a document obtained under California's Public Records Act.
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Guardian, @anildash, @kateconger, @hyphy_republic, @robertgammon, @kateconger, @kateconger, @kateconger, @awinston, @juliacarriew and @kateconger
Soham Adwani / Tech in Asia:
Australian startup Inkl bundles paywalled stories from 7 news publishers for A$15/month, available outside US — Spotify for journalism? This app wants to tackle the fragmented news market — The way we consume news in today's generation has changed in a way we couldn't possibly imagine.
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