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8:25 AM ET, August 12, 2015

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New York Times:
The Defense Department labels combat journalists “unprivileged belligerents” makes their work more dangerous and subject to censorship  —  The Pentagon's Dangerous Views on the Wartime Press  —  The Defense Department earlier this summer released a comprehensive manual outlining its interpretation of the law of war.
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Pearson sells 50% stake in Economist Group for £469M; Exor becomes largest single shareholder with 43% stake  —  Pearson sells 50% stake in Economist Group for £469m  —  Pearson has agreed to sell its 50 per cent stake in the publisher of the Economist magazine for £469m in cash …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Brian Williams' six-month suspension is over, will resume new role as MSNBC breaking news anchor in mid-September  —  Brian Williams' suspension is over  —  It's been six months since Williams was suspended without pay by NBC News for telling an exaggerated story about a helicopter mission during the Iraq War.
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The profusion of privacy-violating web trackers invalidates the already-shaky theory that ad-blocking violates an implied contract  —  The ethics of modern web ad-blocking  —  More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads.
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Rdio to add 460 AM/FM stations owned and operated by Cumulus Media to its service Wednesday amid increasing competition  —  Rdio cues up traditional radio stations, hoping to get an edge on competition  —  The increasingly crowded streaming music industry is starting to look a little more like old-fashioned radio.
Paul Mason / Guardian:
Digital devices have shortened readers attention spans, increased skim-reading, and authors are now struggling to create immersive content  —  Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write  —  Our attention spans have shortened, we're distracted, and authors have changed …
Discussion: Telegraph, @nicolalitagent and The Awl
Society of Professional Journalists:
More than 50 journalism groups again urge President Obama to stop excessive controls on public information  —  INDIANAPOLIS - Fifty-three journalism and open government groups today called on President Barack Obama - yet again - to stop practices in federal agencies that prevent important information from getting to the public.
Discussion: The Newspaper Guild
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Tinder just lost its mind on Twitter over a Vanity Fair story  —  Tinder is not happy with Vanity Fair.  —  The tech company's PR just went on a 30+ tweet tweetstorm lambasting the magazine for a recent feature story in the September issue of Vanity Fair.  —  The article, titled …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fusion Adds Roku to Its List of Streaming Venues in Bid to Win New Viewers  —  Fusion, the TV network aimed for millennials that is owned by ABC News and Univision, is expanding to Roku.  —  Users of the service will be able to tap into the Watch Fusion channel on Roku to watch Fusion programs …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Canadian TV journalist is charged in incident related to 2014 Ferguson coverage  —  A Canadian TV journalist has become at least the third charged almost a year after being detained while covering the protests in Ferguson, his employer reports.  —  CTV's Los Angeles Bureau Chief Tom Walters …
Ariha Setalvad / The Verge:
Facebook makes it hard to find and take down copyright-infringing videos as it tries to establish itself as the go-to platform for viral videos  —  Why Facebook's video theft problem can't last  —  Earlier this year, Facebook's increased focus on video — which began with it introducing autoplay video …
Discussion: Wired and SocialTimes
 
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Movie studio executive Julie Rapaport from Weinstein Co. joins fast-growing Amazon Studios
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Paul Gallagher / The Independent:
Columbia Pictures accidentally delete their own trailer for new Adam Sandler movie Pixels in anti-piracy crackdown
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Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

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