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Facebook Media:
Facebook launches Signal, a discovery and curation tool for journalists to find and embed content from Facebook and Instagram — Introducing Signal for Facebook and Instagram — By Andy Mitchell, Director of Media Partnerships — We've heard from journalists that they want an easy …
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Nieman Lab, Poynter, TechCrunch, Wired, Re/code and The Next Web
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Ukraine bans 41 international journalists and bloggers for a year, including three BBC reporters, citing threats to national interest, security, and sovereignty — Ukraine bans 41 international journalists and bloggers — New York, September 16, 2015—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores …
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Alec Luhn / Guardian:
Ukraine allows BBC journalists to remain
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Reuters, Associated Press, BuzzFeed, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Newsweek, iSurfPaducah and New Europe
Alex Spence / Politico:
BBC to launch online video subscription service in the US next year — BBC to launch Netflix-style U.S. streaming service — The new service is one of several efforts by the BBC to raise more money internationally. — CAMBRIDGE — The BBC will launch a Netflix-style online video service …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Independent publishers are collateral damage in the war over ad revenues between Google, Apple, and Facebook — Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web — So let's talk about ad blocking. — You might think the conversation about ad blocking …
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Harro ten Wolde / Reuters:
Sources: Axel Springer exploring €500M deal to gain controlling stake in Business Insider — Axel Springer eyes controlling stake in Business Insider: Manager Magazin — German publisher Axel Springer (SPRGn.DE) may want to increase its current 7 percent stake in U.S. news website Business Insider …
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@edmundlee and @agrafemeyer
CNBC:
Altice buys Cablevision for $17.7B including debt — Altice to buy Cablevision in $17.7B deal — It's surprising they're paying this much, says Rich Greenfield, BTIG analyst, sharing his thoughts on Cablevision's agreement to sell itself to European telecom giant Altice.
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Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:
Changes at NYT Mag: Ana Marie Cox Takes Over ‘Talk’ and ‘Ethicists’ Goes Solo — Nearly seven months after its much-heralded relaunch, The New York Times Magazine is changing yet again. Ana Marie Cox has been named its new Talk interviewer, conducting weekly question-and-answers in the back of the book …
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The New York Observer, FishbowlNY and The New York Times Company
Kara Andrade / The Huffington Post:
Inside Mexicoleaks, Mexico's version of Wikileaks, and the scandals it has uncovered since launching earlier this year — Inside Mexico's Very Own Wikileaks — A new congress took office in Mexico this month after what proved to be among the country's most violent elections …
Darren Orf / Gizmodo:
Apple News is fine for light media-grazers but those with more nuanced media diets will find it lacking — Apple News Is Better Than Newsstand, But That's Not Saying Much — Well iOS 9 is here and it's the most minor major—or maybe the most major minor—upgrade to the Apple's mobile software in recent memory.
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Nieman Lab, USA Today, 9to5Mac and Pocket-lint
Roger Parloff / Fortune:
Apple will ask Supreme Court to hear its ebooks price-fixing case — Defying the expectations and desires of some—who thought it might be time to move on—Apple AAPL will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal judge's finding that it conspired to fix the prices of ebooks …
Discussion:
Cult of Mac and Fortune
Variety:
Penske Media partners with digital media firm Tokyo Sangyo Shimbun to launch Variety Japan; first edition goes online Sept. 28 — Variety Japan Launches Online Via Penske Media Partnership — Penske Media Corporation has partnered with digital media company Tokyo Sangyo Shimbun to launch Variety Japan.
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
LA City Council members join chorus to restore local leadership at LA Times … The chorus to restore local leadership to the Los Angeles Times grew louder Wednesday as more than a dozen Los Angeles City Council members sent an open letter to Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Griffin and the company's board.
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