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3:25 PM ET, September 6, 2015

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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Profile of Stephen Colbert as his CBS Late Show prepares for its debut on Tuesday  —  Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope  —  On a recent Monday night, Stephen Colbert was about as high atop the Ed Sullivan Theater as one can be, looking out over the 200 or so employees of his CBS …
Discussion: Guardian, The Week and Gothamist
Reuters:
Dutch journalist says she has been arrested in Turkey, but government official says she was detained for her safety in a zone where there was fighting  —  Turkey says Dutch journalist detained ‘for her own safety’  —  A Dutch journalist who in January was acquitted by a Turkish court …
David Post / Washington Post:
Trans Pacific Partnership treaty appears to contain language that may prevent US from eliminating statutory damages for orphan works  —  In a dark corner of the Trans-Pacific Partnership lurks some pretty nasty copyright law  —  The extent to which our international obligations interact with …
Discussion: Techdirt
Brian Rohan / Associated Press:
Egypt court releases full ruling in Al-Jazeera English case  —  3 photos  —  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court released a detailed ruling Sunday on why it sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison for airing what it described as “false news” and biased coverage …
Bourree Lam / The Atlantic:
US households pay an average $231 a year renting cable boxes, creating a $19.5B industry that gives little incentive to innovate  —  Cable-Box Rentals: A Needless $19-Billion Industry  —  One of the least glamorous realities of the American cable industry is a relic invented in 1948: the cable box.
Hollywood Reporter:
Aretha Franklin wins injunction preventing airing of documentary “Amazing Grace” at Telluride  —  Aretha Franklin Granted Injunction to Stop Telluride Showing of ‘Amazing Grace’  —  The singer says the new film showing her 1972 performance violated her rights to name and likeness and invaded her privacy.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
DirecTV, Al Jazeera Settle $75 Million Lawsuit  —  As the Qatari-backed cable news network faces new claims from Al Gore, it settles a carriage dispute with the satellite giant.  —  DirecTV and Al Jazeera America have reached a deal that resolves dueling legal claims over carriage of the Qatari-backed cable news network.
Alex Heath / Tech Insider:
How Spotify is using Echo Nest algorithms and humans to create its Discovery Weekly playlist  —  Spotify is getting unbelievably good at picking music — here's an inside look at how  —  There's a playlist on Spotify I love called Discover Weekly.  It's updated every Monday with a mix of songs …
Discussion: @flaneur
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Gannett, Advance, Hearst, McClatchy, and Tribune in early-stage talks to merge national digital and print ad sales in 30 markets  —  Nation's largest paper chains talk merger in ad revenue push  —  Five of the nation's largest —and battered — newspaper chains are in hush-hush talks …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Parse.ly study shows publishers use article tags to track sponsored content and control paywall access  —  Do article tags matter?  Maybe not for traffic, but publishers are using them to glean insights  —  Analytics company Parse.ly found that sites are expanding their use of article tags …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Adobe survey: 61.9% of streamed pay TV, generally content owned by cable networks, is viewed on Apple devices  —  Survey: 61.9% of streamed pay TV is viewed on Apple devices  —  TV Everywhere (sometimes called authenticated streaming) is the entertainment industry's clunky term …
Discussion: CMO.com and TechCrunch
 
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Sky News cameraman Mick Deane, killed in 2013, was shot after flack jacket was confiscated at Cairo airport
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Verizon Gears Up for Post-Labor Day Launch of Go90 Mobile Video Service
Jeremy Barr / Politico:
Fusion overhauls TV strategy, with job cuts likely as it focuses on original documentaries, investigative programming, and US presidential election
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Rolling Stone files motion for protective order in Virginia dean's defamation case
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