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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Marco Arment pulls ad-blocking app Peace, the top paid app for 36 hours, citing the unfairness of indiscriminate ad blocking — Just doesn't feel good — I've pulled Peace from the App Store. I'm sorry to all of my fans and customers who bought this on my name, expecting it to be supported for longer than two days.
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The Atlantic:
Mobile apps were already destroying online ad revenue, and ad blockers are just another, short-term threat — The Allure of an Ad-Free Internet — Well, that happened fast. After 36 hours as the No. 1 paid app in the App store, the programmer Marco Arment is pulling his ad-blocker, Peace, from the market.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
A Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top The App Store
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Josh Beckerman / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Publishing lowers guidance for 2015 earnings, citing Southern California results, days after it fired LA Times publisher — Tribune Publishing Lowers Guidance — Company cites results in Southern California — Tribune Publishing Co. lowered its 2015 guidance, mainly due to results in Southern California.
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The Nation:
How trust in Spain's media system is being slowly restored by a small group of media upstarts — The Spanish Media Are the Worst in Europe. These Upstarts Are Trying to Change That. — A broad range of leftist media projects committed to democracy and transparency have flourished in recent years.
Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:
Sources: Google to announce Chromecast Audio device to plug in to speakers September 29 — Exclusive: Chromecast Audio, codenamed ‘Hendrix,’ is a separate device & made to WiFi-enable your speakers — We told you earlier today about the 2nd generation Chromecast, scheduled to be launched later this month.
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Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:
Leaked documents show second-gen Chromecast has new backdrop feeds, improved Wi-Fi, “Fast Play”, to be announced September 29
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Ona Abelis / Brooklyn Magazine:
Interview with video remix artist Elisa Kreisinger on fair use and the importance of defending new digital works — What Does Fair Use Mean?: Talking with Pop Culture Pirate Elisa Kreisinger — Video remix artist Elisa Kreisinger doesn't wait for someone to write her a storyline that she wants to watch.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Gannett to launch storytelling events in nine cities following success in its Arizona program — Gannett takes the idea behind Arizona Storytellers Project nationwide … Next week at the Online News Association's annual conference, a group of journalists from nine Gannett newspapers …
Jared Malsin / New York Times:
Egypt Bans News Coverage of Killings of Mexican Tourists — CAIRO — Egypt's chief prosecutor issued a ban on news media coverage in the case of a weekend attack by the security forces that killed 12 people, including eight Mexican tourists and their Egyptian guides.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Layoffs total about 50 staffers at New York Daily News in sports, business, and features — More Daily News layoffs as newsroom keeps bleeding — The Daily News raised its weekday price from 75 cents to $1.25 last summer. — The Daily News swung the ax for a third day …
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Tom Knox / Columbus Business First:
Dispatch Media Group in Columbus, Ohio, cutting 63 jobs three months after purchase by New Media Investment Group — Columbus Dispatch cutting 63 jobs, with more on the way — The Columbus Dispatch is cutting 63 jobs, three months after the newspaper and related holdings became part of GateHouse Media.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Separate efforts by Apple, Facebook, and Google to own news distribution will lead to Balkanization, but it could be prevented if Facebook openly embraced RSS — Avoiding balkanization in news — Balkanization is a “pejorative geopolitical term, originally used to describe the process …
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Ceylan Yeginsu / New York Times:
Opposition media in Turkey is being silenced through protests, deportations, arrests, and raids — Opposition Journalists Under Assault in Turkey — ISTANBUL — Hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out against a prominent newspaper here, an angry mob of his supporters descended …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Q&A with Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on investing in journalism, print, and the BBC — Ian Hislop declined to sign pro-BBC ‘luvvies’ letter' because he would have looked an ‘overpaid wanker’ — Ian Hislop has just returned from a two-week holiday to find - as is customary at Private Eye …
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