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3:30 AM ET, October 9, 2015

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Culture | Mother Jones:
How Mother Jones won a defamation lawsuit filed by GOP super PAC donor Frank VanderSloot and his company, Melaleuca Inc.  —  We Were Sued By A Billionaire Political Donor.  We Won.  Here's What Happened.  —  Today we are happy to announce a monumental legal victory for Mother Jones …
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.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter announces new offering for automatically matching 6-second ads to publishers' videos; Twitter takes 30% of revenue, with publisher retaining 70%  —  Twitter's Video Ad Strategy Now Looks Like YouTube's Ad Strategy  —  Earlier this week, Twitter showed off Moments, a new way of organizing content on the social network.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix raises price of most popular plan to $10 a month in US, Canada, and Latin America for new customers, existing customers see no increase for 12 months  —  Netflix Hikes Price of Standard Streaming Plan to $10 per Month  —  Increase for new subscribers in U.S., Canada and Latin America follows 10% price rise in Europe
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
HBO to Launch Standalone Streaming Service in Latin America, Caribbean
Sam Stecklow / The Awl:
How Aggrego's Sun Times Network, which tried to cover 70 cities through aggregation, led to the slow decline of the Chicago Sun Times' reputation  —  The Chicago End-Times  —  Sometime between early February and late May, the proprietor of a yoga studio read a “Best Yoga Studios” …
Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Art media properties controlled by Peter Brant, including Art in America and ARTnews, to be consolidated online at ARTnews.com  —  Peter Brant to Consolidate Art Media Properties at ARTnews.com  —  The art media properties controlled by Peter Brant, including the century-old magazine Art …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
What Gannett gets by getting bigger and why newspaper consolidation will continue  —  For three different reasons, Gannett's surprise acquisition Wednesday of Journal Media (the former Scripps papers and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) makes a lot of sense:  — In the era of digital transformation, bigger is better.
Discussion: New York Times and Florida Today
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Tribune Media puts Tribune Tower, headquarters of the Chicago Tribune, up for sale  —  Tribune Tower is up for sale  —  Tribune Tower, photographed in 2006.  (AP Photo) … Tribune Tower, the iconic headquarters of the Chicago Tribune, is on the market.
Roy J. Harris Jr / Poynter:
The story behind Spotlight, the movie chronicling the Boston Globe's work to expose sex abuse in the Catholic church  —  “Spotlight:” Boston Globe church-scandal movie spurs press introspection  —  After the thunderous applause died down for last week's preview of “Spotlight,” …
Discussion: @poynter
Piya Sinha-Roy / Reuters:
InStyle to send branded cardboard VR headsets to subscribers for its November 360-degree cover  —  InStyle, Jaunt VR target fashion audience with virtual reality cover  —  As makers of virtual reality content get ready to enter the mass market next year, one company is hoping to appeal …
Martin Vacher / Spotify:
Discover Weekly reaches one billion tracks streamed in 10 weeks  —  It seems we've found a cure for “a case of the Mondays.”  In just 10 weeks, 1 billion tracks have been streamed from Discover Weekly playlists.  It's the best-ever recommendations delivered to you as a weekly mixtape of fresh music each Monday.
Discussion: Billboard, RAIN News and BuzzFeed
 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
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The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

 
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