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1:20 AM ET, August 25, 2015

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
A Three-Way Mostly Civilized Family Contest To Become The Next Publisher Of The Times  —  The issue of succession is a difficult matter not just for family-run businesses but for the families that run them.  Take the Murdochs, for instance.  Or the Binghams, the Kentucky newspaper clan that imploded in the 1980s.
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Despite upsurge in mobile traffic, publishers say mobile ad dollars are lagging  —  Mobile Readers Abound; the Ads, Not So Much  —  Traditional and online publishers are struggling to cash in on their surging mobile traffic, raising questions about their future growth as consumers increasingly turn …
Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:
Russia tells ISPs to block Wikipedia after site editors refuse to delete article about charas, a form of hashish  —  Russia Says It's Banning Wikipedia  —  The site faces a total block after Wikipedia editors failed to comply with a court decision in a remote village.
Guardian:
Following US shutdown in June, Twitter blocks 31 Diplotwoops and Politwoops accounts archiving deleted tweets of politicians, diplomats, and embassies globally  —  Twitter blocks access to political transparency organisation Politwoops  —  Group that archives deleted tweets from legislators has its access to social network shut off
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Audience for New York Times newsletters ranges from tens of thousands to millions  —  How The New York Times gets a 70 percent open rate on its newsletters  —  The New York Times has caught the newsletter fever.  In the past year, it has launched a dozen of them — it now has a total of 33.
Discussion: @sophia_phan
Wall Street Journal:
Warner Bros. in Talks to Make Movies in China  —  Joint venture would produce local-language films for Asian audience  —  Rather than wait for China to open its doors to Hollywood, Warner Bros. is making a big play to take up residency in China.  —  The Time Warner Inc. -owned studio …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Flipboard launches short silent Cinema Loop video ads  —  Flipboard is expanding its promoted stories program to now include videos.  Starting today, brands can submit their television-quality commercials and bring them to the digital magazine app.  These video ads will feature Cinema Loops …
Discussion: The Next Web
Kara Newhouse / ivoh:
How The Christian Science Monitor is helping readers bridge the gap between content & action  —  Screengrab from The Christian Science Monitor's “Take Action” website.  —  By Kara Newhouse  —  Kara is an education reporter for Lancaster Newspapers, a creator of the Faces of Mental Health Recovery project …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Neil Young's Pono Struggles With Funding, Searches for New CEO  —  Neil Young's music tech startup Pono is struggling with funding issues, which is slowing down the company's international expansion, the rock legend revealed in a Facebook post.  “We are trying to set up stores in multiple countries …
Discussion: RAIN News
Daniel Frankel / FierceCable:
Dish's Sling TV glitches again during AMC's ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ premiere  —  Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) continues to grapple with technical challenges as it tries to live-stream popular programming events through its Sling TV service.  —  The latest glitch occurred Sunday evening …
Discussion: Multichannel News
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Nobel Prize-winner blasts The New York Times for publishing ‘gossip’  —  Famed Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, slammed The New York Times on Sunday for publishing what he called “slanderous and perfidious” gossip culled from an article published by The Daily Mail.
 
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Jeff Gammage / Philly.com:
Terry Egger named publisher of Philadelphia Media Network
Farnaz Fassihi / Wall Street Journal:
A Wall Street Journal reporter discusses her experience being labeled an American spy by Iranian state-run media
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European media giant investments in online video networks are growing fast
Patrick Frater / Variety:
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Katrin Kuntz / Spiegel Online:
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Garett Sloane / Digiday:
Google, Yahoo, and Bing are testing video ads in search results