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4:20 AM ET, September 8, 2015

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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Director General Tony Hall outlines new plans for “open” BBC, including local news partnerships  —  BBC will offer staff and content to help local newspapers  —  Director general plans for an ‘open’ BBC reporting on public services and removed from expansionism
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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 …
Discussion: @screwlabour
Katie Collins / Wired UK:
BBC to expand World Service influence in North Korea and Russia  —  The BBC's World Service is respected as a source of reliable, unbiased journalism in countries around the world, but the corporation is now hoping to expand its influence in countries where freedom of speech and of the press is often stifled.
BBC:
Outlining 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”.
Mark Walton / Ars Technica UK:
BBC to open up iPlayer to third parties, double down on high-quality dramas  —  Concedes that it will “close or reduce some services” as TV licence fee tightens.  —  The BBC is fighting back against the government's aggressive TV licence fee budget by promising to open up several of its services …
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 …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Kim Dotcom worked on music service with Universal in 2012 that used ad-injection tech to replace 10% of others' ads with ads from his own network  —  This Was Kim Dotcom's Crazy Plan to Save the Music Business  —  Kim Dotcom is known to be more than a little eccentric.
Gerald Lynch / Gizmodo:
Netflix says offline viewing would add too much complexity to the service, will not be popular despite many users asking for it  —  The Real Reason Netflix Won't Offer Offline Downloads  —  Offline downloads are perhaps the most often requested, “holy grail” feature of TV and movie streaming services …
Discussion: Neowin and CINEMABLEND
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reader advisory group helps Peoria, Illinois' Journal Star improve coverage of underserved community  —  A Peoria paper is working to ‘be there’ in underserved community—without adding reporters  —  Robin Berry remembered a time in Peoria, Illinois, when residents of the South Side …
Valeriya Safronova / New York Times:
Quarterly print magazine Street Dreams features street photography from Instagram  —  Street Dreams Magazine Flips the Script, Bringing Instagram to Print  —  If the measure of a successful party is the sidewalk overflow, then Street Dreams magazine had arrived.
Amie Tsang / New York Times:
China's public shaming of Caijing business magazine journalist Wang Xiaolu over negative stock market story raises fears about prospects of journalistic freedom  —  Caijing Journalist's Shaming Signals China's Growing Control Over News Media  —  HONG KONG — When the Chinese Ministry …
Discussion: @amyyqin, @jamesbreiner and TechCrunch
Journalism in the Americas:
Journalism played a central role in the fall and arrest of the president of Guatemala  —  The resignation of the president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, and his subsequent detention for alleged involvement in a corruption network, is not just a victory for democracy …
Discussion: New York Times
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.
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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
 
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