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7:25 PM ET, September 4, 2015

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Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
IAB Explores Its Options to Fight Ad Blockers, Including Lawsuits  —  Trade Org Has Held Two Summits This Summer to Map a Course of Action  —  As the digital media and advertising industries come to grips with the rise of ad blocking, so is one of the industry's more prominent organizing bodies.
Jeremy Barr / Politico:
Fusion overhauls TV strategy, with job cuts likely as it focuses on original documentaries, investigative programming, and US presidential election  —  Changes coming for Fusion's TV strategy  —  Fusion, the multimedia company formed from a joint investment of Univision and Disney-ABC …
Les Hinton / British Journalism Review:
Former Dow Jones CEO and News International executive chairman responds to Rupert Murdoch's critics  —  Life with Murdoch, Les Hinton  —  Rupert Murdoch's longest-serving lieutenant staggers under the weight of books written about his old boss More than half a century ago …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: difficulty of making deals with CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox has delayed Apple TV's launch  —  Local TV Creates Hurdle to Streaming  —  The difficulty of lining up deals to offer CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox programming is one reason Apple has decided to push back its Web-TV service
Discussion: @gerryfsmith and Public Knowledge
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Rolling Stone files motion for protective order in Virginia dean's defamation case  —  Lawyers for Rolling Stone magazine yesterday entered a motion aimed at limiting the amount of information and documents disclosed in the ongoing defamation case filed this year by Nicole Eramo …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Hachette, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster report declining revenues on ebooks after winning the right to set prices in deal with Amazon  —  E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts  —  Prices rise, but revenue takes a hit  —  When the world's largest publishers …
Discussion: Consumerist and Bookseller News
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Rights groups call on Twitter to reverse its ban on Politwoops accounts  —  A coalition of rights groups from more than a dozen different countries have posted an open letter to Twitter TWTR , asking that the company restore access to more than 30 Politwoops accounts it recently blocked …
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 and @tedgioia
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
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon buys web and mobile video conversion company Elemental Technologies for a reported $500M  —  Amazon to Buy Video Reformatter Elemental Technologies  —  Deal could help Amazon become central player in rush to provide consumers video on all types of devices
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 …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Journalists ‘pushed away’ from ‘distressing scenes’ involving migrants at Hungarian train station  —  about Journalists ‘pushed away’ from ‘distressing scenes’ involving migrants at Hungarian train station- Comments  —  Journalists have reported being “pushed away” by police from …
 
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