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7:30 AM ET, September 4, 2015

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Mail Online sues Gawker for defamation for publishing former news writer's first-person account of workplace practices  —  Mail Online sues Gawker for defamation over first-person piece  —  On March 4, Gawker published a first-person piece by James King, a former worker for the Mail Online …
Michael Pizzi / Al Jazeera America:
The Vice reporters' arrest and continuing detention of their assistant highlight Turkey's crackdown on Internet freedom and encryption  —  Case of Vice reporters underlines Turkish crackdown on Internet freedom  —  Two British reporters freed, but Iraqi stringer remains in jail for downloading same encryption software used by ISIL
Discussion: Refinery29
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Suzan Fraser / Associated Press:
Turkish official says two Vice News journalists have been released, assistant remains in custody
Marissa Newman / The Times of Israel:
Israel bans journalists at public broadcasting organization from expressing opinions in newscasts as broadcaster reorganizes, dropping TV tax  —  State broadcast journalists condemn ban on expressing political opinions  —  Reporter slams ‘shameful’ clause in new law; Press Council …
Jim Romenesko:
Robyn Tomlin leaves Pew Research Center to become Dallas Morning News managing editor  —  Robyn Tomlin, Pew Research Center vice president/digital and communications, is joining the Dallas Morning News as managing editor.  The editor's memo:
Discussion: Biz Beat Blog, @jimbrady and @ckrewson
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Spotify updates privacy policy with clearer language after backlash  —  Spotify is overhauling its privacy policy today with plainer language that should be readable to the average human — not just lawyers.  The streaming service found itself amid a furor last month after its users complained …
Celeste Lecompte / Nieman Reports:
How automation helps reporters expand coverage, engage audiences, and respond to breaking news  —  Automation in the Newsroom  —  How algorithms are helping reporters expand coverage, engage audiences, and respond to breaking news  —  Philana Patterson, assistant business editor for the Associated Press …
Discussion: MediaShift, @tedgioia and @ap_corpcomm
Gurman Bhatia / Poynter:
Al Jazeera English builds Slack bots that share breaking news alerts with staff, give traffic analytics, and recommend related stories with keywords  —  The Slack bot trend continues, this time with Al Jazeera English  —  When the Virginia shooting happened last week …
Discussion: @gurmanbhatia
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Sudanese journalist arrested in Saudi Arabia, faces deportation  —  New York, September 3, 2015—A Sudanese journalist has been detained for more than a month without charge in Saudi Arabia, according to news reports.  Waleed al-Hussein al-Dood could face deportation to Sudan …
Discussion: Guardian, Sudan and @cpjmena
Peggy McGlone / Washington Post:
US Copyright Office's online registration has been down since last Friday, part of a larger computer failure at Library of Congress  —  Copyright Office's online registration hasn't worked for almost a week  —  The U.S. Copyright Office's electronic registration system has been down since Friday …
Discussion: Federal Computer Week, @xor and @xor
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
CNN's app comes pre-loaded on Samsung Gear S2 and Galaxy Tab S2, available for download on Galaxy S6, Note5, edge will display headlines as part of info ticker  —  CNN Partners With Samsung to Preload News App on Tablet, Smart Watch  —  Samsung's new Gear S2 smart watch and Galaxy Tab S2 tablet …
SI.com:
ESPN removes Curt Schilling from coverage for rest of season  —  ESPN has removed Curt Schilling from its coverage for the rest of the 2015 MLB season.  —  Schilling was removed from recent Sunday Night Baseball and Little League World Series coverage in wake of a tweet he sent …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Longtime Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss steps down  —  Jim Amoss, the veteran journalist who steered the New Orleans Times-Picayune through its coverage of Hurricane Katrina and an adversarial business environment, is stepping down from the editor's job after 25 years.
Discussion: @djdreilinger, @stevebuttry and WVUE-TV
 
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Jennifer Brandel / Medium:
News organizations should include the public in the reporting process allowing questions to replace focus on post-publishing comments
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Heather Chaplin, director of The New School's journalism-and-design undergraduate program
Discussion: @aejmc
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The New York Times' Anemona Hartocollis travels with and documents a group of migrants and refugees as they move through Europe
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Publishers will be able to determine when smartphone users are bored and push content at them
Discussion: Engadget, Fortune and pielot.org
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Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
 
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