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Klint Finley / Wired:
Pro-government Twitter spam bots jammed communication channels for activists during Mexico protests — Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists — On September 26, 2014, a group of students departed the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College for a protest in Iguala, Mexico, about 80 miles away.
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Motherboard and The Next Web
Emily Steel / New York Times:
In drive to attract teens and tweens, Netflix licenses films from YouTube personalities, adds other films, TV series — Netflix to Add Films and TV Series for Teenagers — Netflix is entering the awkward teenage years, at least with its latest programming push.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court upholds broad FOIA fee exemption for media & groups — Advocacy groups and non-traditional news outlets should have an easier time avoiding fees under the Freedom of Information Act under a decision issued Tuesday by a federal appeals court in Washington.
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@derekwillis, @joshgerstein, @lachlan, @petersterne, @freedomofpress and @trevortimm
Alex Stedman / Variety:
ESPN Suspends Analyst Curt Schilling for Tweet Comparing Muslims to Nazis — ESPN has suspended Curt Schilling after the network analyst and former pitcher tweeted, and subsequently deleted, a picture that compared Muslims to Nazis. — “Curt's tweet was completely unacceptable …
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Sky News:
Russia lifts Wikipedia ban after briefly blocking site for article about drugs — Russia Quickly Cancels Wikipedia Ban — The homepage of the Russian version of Wikipedia — Russia has cancelled a ban on the Russian-language version of Wikipedia after it caused controversy among internet users in the country.
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Mashable, Fusion, Guardian, Bloomberg Business, New York Times, Business Insider, Engadget and TechCrunch
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Cablevision Will Sell CBS Via Broadband In New Distribution Pact — Cablevision, the cable provider for a valuable pocket of suburbia surrounding New York City, will be the first company of its kind to sell a new CBS programming-via-broadband service in a new distribution deal the companies announced Tuesday.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Slingbox boss Michael Hawkey joins Rovi as VP and general manager of its media-discovery business group — Slingbox Boss Michael Hawkey Departs to Join Rovi — Michael Hawkey, who has run EchoStar's Sling Media division for two years, has left the company to become senior VP and G.M. of Rovi's media-discovery business group.
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Patrick Foster / RadioTimes:
Two-thirds of viewers opposed to the licence fee changed their minds after just nine days without BBC services — “Being without the BBC was absolutely dreadful, just awful,” said one man involved in the ‘deprivation study’. “I just didn't realised how much we watched it...”
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@benando, @mrjoemcfadden, @patrickfoster2, @patrickfoster2, Guardian, @emilybowles_, Engadget, @markfrankel29 and @meandmybigmouth
Vauhini Vara / New Yorker:
Examining the new antitrust legal argument by the Authors United group against Amazon — Is Amazon Creating a Cultural Monopoly? — For months, a group of writers calling themselves Authors United have campaigned, mostly unsuccessfully, against the business practices of Amazon.com.
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Business Insider, @serenalarkin, @nyercurrency, @umichlaw, @barryeisler and kottke.org
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
Hulu to Open a Private Ad Exchange Powered by Facebook's LiveRail — Advertising's programmatic revolution will be televised — by Hulu. — This fall the streaming video service, which is owned by NBC Universal, Fox and Walt Disney Co., will open a private ad exchange powered …
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Adweek
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Tunein adds $8/month Premium subscription with access to over 40K audiobooks, 600 ad-free music stations, and live MLB broadcasts — TuneIn takes the ads out of your on-the-go real radio — The Internet's main spot for AM/FM radio adds an $8 subscription that swaps commercials out of 600 stations …
Discussion:
TechCrunch, Forbes, International Business Times, Variety, AllAccess.com, Billboard, Radio Ink Magazine and Engadget
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Disney pays Maker Studios' shareholders just $105M of $200M earn-out bonus, after Maker misses performance goals — Maker Studios Gets Its First Report Card From Disney — Screenshot from Maker Studios' “Ithamar Has Nothing to Say” — When Disney bought Web video network Maker Studios last year …
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