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11:55 AM ET, September 7, 2015

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC backs replacing licence fee with universal levy  —  Corporation says it would make more revenue from a German-style charge that applies to all households rather than just those that watch live TV  —  The BBC is backing a new system of funding that would see all households pay a levy …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Newspaper publishers could use BBC investment in local news as an excuse to make cuts  —  The real reason for the BBC's regional newspaper ‘reporting pool’...  he BBC's plan to create a pool of up to 100 “public service reporters” is very revealing indeed about the beleaguered state …
Discussion: @jonhew and @jayrosen_nyu
BBC:
Outling plans for BBC, Tony Hall compares it to Google, wants to help people understand world's information  —  BBC pledges to become ‘open platform’ for creativity  —  The BBC has pledged to work more closely with the UK's arts and science institutions to “make Britain the greatest cultural force in the world”.
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 …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Pagefair's estimate that publishers will lose $21.8B due to ad blocking ignores law of supply and demand, so is likely overstated  —  Widely Cited Ad Blocking Study Finding $21.8 Billion Loss Is Incorrect  —  Supply and demand were purposefully overlooked, leading to larger number.
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, Gothamist and The Week
Madalina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Hong Kong investigative news agency FactWire will launch after raising $387K via crowdfunding  —  Hong Kong investigative news agency to launch after successful crowdfunding  —  The platform raised more than £370,000 and plans to investigate public affairs issues, publishing in English and Chinese
Press Gazette:
Two jailed journalists return to UK - but Vice ‘extremely concerned’ for Turkish-based colleague who remains in custody  —  Two British journalists arrested in Turkey on terror charges are in “good health and spirits” after arriving back in the UK, their employer Vice News said.
Discussion: BREITBART.COM, ITV, TodaysZaman, men and The Wrap
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Mommy blog Dooce's semi-retirement speaks to the challenges of earning money as an individual blogger today  —  Can Mommy Bloggers Still Make a Living?  —  The success story of Dooce.com was once blogger lore, told and re-told in playgroups and Meetups—anywhere hyper-verbal people with Wordpress accounts gathered.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
FOIA site MuckRock launches new efforts to let users track projects and contribute to reporting costs  —  MuckRock is also debuting project pages that will highlight groups of FOIA requests and let users follow specific stories.  —  For the past year, Beryl C.D. Lipton has been investigating …
Brian Rohan / Associated Press:
Egypt court releases full ruling in Al-Jazeera English case  —  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 …
 
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David Post / Washington Post:
Trans Pacific Partnership treaty appears to contain language that may prevent US from eliminating statutory damages for orphan works
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How Spotify is using Echo Nest algorithms and humans to create its Discovery Weekly playlist
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Parse.ly study shows publishers use article tags to track sponsored content and control paywall access
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Adobe survey: 61.9% of streamed pay TV, generally content owned by cable networks, is viewed on Apple devices
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Central News:
Sky News cameraman Mick Deane, killed in 2013, was shot after flack jacket was confiscated at Cairo airport
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
DirecTV, Al Jazeera Settle $75 Million Lawsuit
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Verizon Gears Up for Post-Labor Day Launch of Go90 Mobile Video Service
Hollywood Reporter:
Aretha Franklin wins injunction preventing airing of documentary “Amazing Grace” at Telluride
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024

Financial Times:
In its annual report, Apple warns of future products perhaps never exceeding the iPhone's profitability, “geopolitical tensions”, and AI features' safety risks
 
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