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Ken Doctor / Politico:
Amazon offers Prime members Washington Post National Digital Edition subscriptions free for six months, then $48 per year — Jeff Bezos (finally) pumps up the Post with Prime — In a potentially game-changing move, Amazon will begin offering free to dirt-cheap subscriptions to The Washington Post …
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Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
The Washington Post aims to become a nationally dominant paper through Amazon customers
The Washington Post aims to become a nationally dominant paper through Amazon customers
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The New York Observer, Gizmodo and @washingtonian
Bloomberg L.P.:
Twitter and Bloomberg sign licensing deal increasing Twitter data available in terminals and offering a curated feed of financial tweets — Bloomberg and Twitter Sign Data Licensing Agreement — Bloomberg adds enhanced custom alerts and tools to its Twitter offering
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Media Wire Daily and USA Today
Open State Foundation:
Open State Foundation has uploaded Politwoops' archive of 1M deleted politician tweets to the Internet Archive — Open State preserves Politwoops' history on the net — In a move to preserve the public record for everyone, Open State has uploaded its complete Politwoops archive …
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Motherboard, Gizmodo, @niemanlab, @openstateeu, Gigaom, Forbes and Engadget
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
La Presse to drop weekday print edition beginning January 1, 2016, push readers to La Presse+ tablet edition — Quebec's La Presse to scrap weekday print edition — La Presse, the Montreal-based daily newspaper, will scrap its print edition from Monday to Friday starting in January, the newspaper announced on Wednesday.
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Nieman Lab, FishbowlNY, CBC News, NetNewsCheck Latest, Toronto Star, Montreal, Talking New Media, CJAD 800 and EIN Newsdesk
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Apple's News, which launches today, is the latest in a trend toward distributed content … Today's release of iOS 9 will see the debut of News, the much-anticipated content recommendation app that has been hailed alternatively as a rival to Flipboard and as a potential replacement for every other news app.
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New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, @jacobwe and @profjeffjarvis
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp to Acquire Social Video Ad Platform Unruly for up to $176 Million — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will acquire social video advertising platform Unruly for up to $176 million, the company said Wednesday. — “Unruly is a feisty and creative company with a start-up sensibility …
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Unruly, The Wrap, Press Gazette, The Drum, International Business Times, Wall Street Journal, Ad Age, TechCrunch, Advanced Television, City A.M., Wired.co.uk, Tech City News, Financial Review, FishbowlNY, Reuters, Politico, Guardian, The Drum, Financial Times, Reuters, Telegraph, Variety and VideoInk
Papitchaya Boonngok / Associated Press:
Thai journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk forced to resign under pressure from The Nation newspaper after government detainment — Newly freed Thai journalist forced to quit newspaper — BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai journalist just freed from detention by the military government said Wednesday he has resigned under pressure from his newspaper.
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
US online publisher Refinery29 to begin international rollout in UK — Ex-Endemol Shine executive Kate Ward to head branch of online company that focuses on fashion, lifestyle and beauty, with office to also open in Germany — US online lifestyle publisher Refinery29 is launching …
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Re/code, FishbowlNY, Business Wire, VideoInk and Financial Times
Firat Alkaç / Hurriyet Daily News:
Turkish magazine Nokta raided, copies of latest issues confiscated after charges of “insulting the Turkish president” and “making terrorist propaganda” — Turkish magazine raided, copies collected for insulting Erdoan … Turkish magazine Nokta has been raided …
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Reuters, Today's Zaman …, BREITBART.COM, Bugun.com.tr, Cihan Haber Ajans, France 24, BBC and DW.COM
Brian Flood / TVNewser:
ABC News Takes Viewers To Syria With Virtual Reality Storytelling — ABC News becomes the first U.S. news division to launch a virtual reality platform taking viewers directly to where news is happening. — For ABC News VR's inaugural project, ABC News foreign correspondent Alex Marquardt …
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Variety, TechCrunch, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, The Verge and Digiday
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Kim Dotcom gets support fighting US extradition in Megaupload copyright case from Larry Lessig — Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim Dotcom — After failing in a last ditch attempt to have their extradition hearing delayed once again, next week Kim Dotcom …
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Techdirt
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Publishers need to focus on sustainable business models and journalism that works in tandem with that model — Popping the Publishing Bubble — Over the last few weeks and months there has been increasing alarm that today, September 16, is a critical one for publishers — and by critical …
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@justinnxt, @dgoligorsky, @vwpickard, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi and @niemanlab
Mark Warren / Esquire:
How war correspondent C.J. Chivers of The New York Times decided it was time to stop going to war — Why the Best War Reporter in a Generation Had to Suddenly Stop — After fourteen years of being immersed in the bloody wars of our era, C.J. Chivers came home.
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@aliwatkins, @carter_pe, @macphersona, @matttbastard, @matttbastard, @art_thiel, @adamweinstein, @bruce_arthur, @elizabeth_calo and @comradewong