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8:40 AM ET, August 23, 2015

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Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog:
Spotify apologizes for confusion over privacy policy, clarifies that no information will be collected without explicit permission  —  SORRY.  —  We are in the middle of rolling out new terms and conditions and privacy policy and they've caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it.
Jennifer Pagliaro / Toronto Star:
Canada's National Post takes down, edits, then reposts Margaret Atwood column criticizing Prime Minister Stephen Harper  —  Margaret Atwood's column criticizing Stephen Harper vanishes, then returns to, National Post website  —  Senior National Post vice-president said the column had been taken …
James Barron / New York Times:
Questions remain about long-term prospects for New York's Daily News after sale called off  —  Daily News Struggles to Find Its Identity After Sale Is Called Off  —  The news at The Daily News — that the owner, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, had done an about-face and decided not to sell …
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
As budget cuts force BBC to cut some of its output, it risks losing appeal or eroding quality  —  What next for the BBC?  —  With its budget squeezed by the government, the world's most famous public broadcaster will have to slim down to survive  —  The proposal for Marvellous was not entirely promising.
Christophe Deloire / Washington Post:
Iran's imprisonment of Jason Rezaian is an affront to justice  —  The writer is secretary general of Reporters Without Borders.  —  Jason Rezaian must be acquitted and freed immediately.  As the final hearing in the Iranian trial of The Post's Tehran correspondent was brought to a close Aug. 10 …
Michael Blanding / Nieman Reports:
The Value of Slow Journalism in the Age of Instant Information  —  As news cycles speed up, ‘slow’ journalists take months—even years—to report and tell in-depth stories  —  Paleontologists in Ethiopia, where journalist Paul Salopek began a seven-year walk around the world …
Abraham Tesfalul Zere / Guardian:
Profiles of Eritrean journalists who have been incarcerated without trial and not heard from for 14 years  —  'If we don't give them a voice, no one will': Eritrea's forgotten journalists, still jailed after 14 years  —  The country is ranked worst in the world for press freedom, its writers locked in secret jails.
Discussion: @tymccormick and @icijorg
Susan Crawford / Backchannel:
Cable-only presidential debates block cord cutters from politics and public discourse  —  Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax  —  If you cut the cord, you just may cut yourself off from vital political discourse.  And that's wrong.  —  This month's theatrical GOP primary debate …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and @stevenlevy
Daniel E. Slotnik / New York Times:
Liz Perle, Writer and Former Publishing Executive, Dies at 59  —  Liz Perle, a writer and former publishing executive who co-founded Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families navigate the complex worlds of entertainment, media and technology, died on Thursday at her home in San Francisco.
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
European Commission asks companies for details about Google's ad contracts and scraping as it deepens its antitrust investigation  —  EU Deepens Antitrust Investigation Into Google's Practices  —  The bloc has requested information from companies on Google's advertising-contract practices
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
College media community mourns Dan Reimold, who died at 34 and who bridged gap between collegiate media and academics at his blog College Media Matters  —  R.I.P Dan Reimold, a top scholar of how college media is evolving  —  Dan Reimold, a journalism professor whose site College Media Matters website …
 
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