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6:15 PM ET, October 9, 2015

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Peter Sterne / Politico:
As Gawker traffic stalls, writers told to work faster  —  “Traffic is flat,” Gawker Media's acting executive editor John Cook wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday.  “In prior iterations of this organization, that fact would have served as evidence of an abject editorial failure.”
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Is Planning Company-Wide Layoffs for Next Week  —  Kimberly White / Getty Images Entertainment  —  Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO of Twitter on Monday, and a big reason he got the job was that as a co-founder, Dorsey isn't afraid to make the tough, necessary decisions.
Oliver Wright / The Independent:
FoI: Commission reviewing what public has right to know bans journalists from fully reporting its first briefing  —  The Kafkaesque briefing comes from a body which the Government claims is impartial and cross party  —  A controversial commission set up to review what the public has a right …
Barton Gellman / The Century Foundation:
Purdue University deletes video of keynote speech about national security journalism because it included classified documents related to Snowden leaks  —  Scholarship, Security, and ‘Spillage’ on Campus  —  This is an adventure in classified speech at an academic conference.
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones discloses customer data breach, says financial data of 3,500 people compromised  —  Dow Jones Discloses Customer Data Breach  —  Wall Street Journal owner says financial data from 3,500 individuals may have been accessed  —  Dow Jones & Co. disclosed that hackers …
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Bans Employees from Paid Fantasy-Sports Sites  —  Fantasy-site purveyors have faced scrutiny over how much internal data employees can access  —  Yahoo Inc. is banning employees from playing in paid fantasy-sports contests, following similar moves by the two biggest daily fantasy-sports sites in the U.S.
Discussion: Fortune and Forbes
Yuras Karmanau / Associated Press:
Journalists working in Belarus for Poland's Belsat TV and other independent news orgs face pressure as government tightens control ahead of Sunday's election  —  Belarus independent journalists targeted ahead of election  —  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — A secret apartment in an old Minsk building …
Discussion: Guardian and Index on Censorship
Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:
Inside the Matthew Keys case and why the government charged him under hacking laws  —  Why the Government Went After Matthew Keys  —  On October 4, 2012, two FBI agents visited the home of Matthew Keys, aged 25, in Secaucus, New Jersey.  At the time, he was the deputy social media editor for Reuters.
Gabriel Arana / The Huffington Post:
The New York Times Looks Abroad To Meet Ambitious Expansion Plans  —  “Our goal is to have audience that is robust and deeply engaged.”
Brendan James / International Business Times:
Some digital journalists are embracing unions, but not the terms of old newspaper contracts  —  Unions Wage Turf Battle For Millennial Newsrooms, But What Will A New Labor Look Like?  —  For all the think pieces written about disruption in new media, not one “thought leader” …
 
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