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4:00 PM ET, September 23, 2015

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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
E-book sales fell 10% in first five months of 2015, while print books and bookstores are showing resilience  —  The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead  —  Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the uncertain future of print.
BBC:
Egypt pardons Al Jazeera journalists Fahmy and Mohamed  —  Egypt's president has pardoned one of the three Al Jazeera TV journalists convicted of broadcasting false news.  —  Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian citizen, is included on a list of 100 prisoners given pardons by Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
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Al Jazeera English:
Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed released from prison following Egyptian pardon  —  Al Jazeera journalists freed from Egypt prison  —  Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have been released from prison following Eid al-Adha pardon.  —  Jailed Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy …
Discussion: Fusion, @ajenews and @benjaminnorton
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BuzzFeed to cover more local news as it expands UK editorial team  —  Fourteen new staff to include regional reporters increasing competition with local newspapers  —  BuzzFeed will make its first foray into more localised news coverage by beefing up its UK editorial team …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Buzzfeed, denied credentials for pope visit, calls it ‘retaliation’ for previous coverage  —  Buzzfeed has been blocked from covering the Pope's visit to the United States, Buzzfeed claims in a letter to officials in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. The letter, addressed to Don Clemmer …
Atavist Insider:
The Atavist Magazine abandons native apps to focus on web, saying apps have poor discovery, slow approval, tech limitations, smaller readership  —  Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps  —  When we concocted the ideas that would become Atavist and The Atavist Magazine, in 2010 …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Nine journalists subpoenaed to testify in privacy case by Jill Kelley against US government, linked to ex-CIA Chief David Petraeus  —  Journalists subpoenaed in Kelley privacy lawsuit against government  —  Nine journalists have been subpoenaed to give testimony in a Florida's woman's lawsuit alleging …
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
Forbes blocks small number of ads from one advertiser that served malware from September 8-15  —  Forbes Shuts Down Ads Serving Malware  —  A small number of ads on Forbes.com were serving malware this month.  —  This publication was informed by security company FireEye on 17 September about the malvertising issue.
Matthew Farwell / Maxim:
Sources: Serial podcast to cover Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who mysteriously disappeared from his post in Afghanistan in 2009  —  Exclusive: Serial Podcast Eyes Bowe Bergdahl for Upcoming Season  —  Soldiers who served with the ex-POW in Afghanistan tell Maxim they have been interviewed by Serial host Sarah Koenig.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ITV launches new TV streaming service to take on iPlayer and Channel 4  —  ITV Hub will replace ITV Player TV and ITV.com and be home for live streaming and on-demand services  —  ITV is to scrap the ITV Player TV service and ITV.com and launch a new online hub that will be the home …
 
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Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
Study finds that Google charges for YouTube ads when fraud-detection systems identify viewer as a robot
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
“Happy Birthday” Ruled To Be In the Public Domain
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Jack Murtha / Columbia Journalism Review:
Columbia J-School launches Columbia Global Reports, a longform, non-fiction publisher of works averaging 25K words in length
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Source: Google acquired Oyster's tech, discovery tools, and editorial content, including literary magazine The Oyster Review, but not its publisher contracts
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

The Linux Foundation:
A survey of 501 organizations globally estimates organizations contribute $7.7B annually to open source software and 86% of contribution value is employee labor
 
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