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Bill Chappell / NPR:
NPR Acknowledges Plagiarism In 10 Music Stories — Stories about classical music that appeared on NPR's website have been found to include portions of others' work, according to a joint statement by NPR and member station WQXR, where the writer of those reports was based.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT's T Magazine should have used different writer for tech entrepreneurs article than the wife of tech investor Marc Andreessen — Conflict of Interest in T Magazine's Tech Article — A recent article in T, the style magazine of The Times, celebrated entrepreneurs “harnessing goodness through technology.”
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times Q3: $367M revenue, $9M profit, added 51K digital subscribers — New York Times Co. Reports $9 Million Profit in 3rd Quarter — The New York Times Company reported slightly increased revenue of $367 million and net income of just over $9 million for the third quarter …
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Nathalie Tadena / Wall Street Journal:
New York Times Looks for Ways to Fight Ad Blocking — ‘We oppose ad blocking,’ says CEO Mark Thompson — The New York Times Co. said it is looking at ways to combat the ad blocking software that threatens to hurt many publishers' online advertising revenue streams.
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Time Warner Cable and Charter Chiefs Expect Delay in Merger — The likelihood that Charter Communications' takeover of Time Warner Cable will close before the end of the year — as the companies predicted earlier — now “feels ambitious,” the chief executive of Time Warner Cable said Thursday.
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Variety, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, FierceCable, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News, Ad Age and Variety
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
Time Warner Cable Q3: revenue up 3.6% to $5.92B, video subscribers down 7K, internet customers up 232K — Time Warner Cable Profit Tops Estimates on Internet Additions — Time Warner Cable Inc., awaiting approval to be acquired by Charter Communications Inc., posted third-quarter earnings …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Fox Business, Hollywood Reporter, Washington Post and The Wrap
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Newspapers in Turkey publish on Twitter after government seizure stops presses — After the Turkish government seized a media headquarters in Istanbul on Wednesday, the group appointed to take over stopped two newspapers from publishing and fired an editor, according to numerous reports.
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Guardian, @benweinthal and The Intercept
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David Katzmaier / CNET:
What you can watch on the new Apple TV — and how it compares to Roku, Fire TV and Chromecast — The new Apple TV is finally available. Here's everything you can watch on it so far, from Netflix to HBO Now to everything in between — and how it compares to what's available on other leading video streamers.
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CNNMoney, The Verge, New York Times, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Boing Boing, TIME, MacStories, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal and 9to5Mac
Nicolas Suzor / The Conversation:
Australian court holds Google is responsible for linking to defamatory websites — Google is responsible for search results. antb/Shutterstock.com — The South Australian Supreme Court this week found that Google is legally responsible when its search results link to defamatory content on the web.
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NEWS.com.au, Daily Mail, ABC and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Twitch launches a new hub where users can watch artists as they work — Twitch is best know as the world's biggest live-streaming platform for video games, a place where casual gamers and high-profile e-sports teams broadcast their action for millions of fans.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
New EC study concludes Spotify stimulates music sales and reduces piracy, and streaming appears to be revenue-neutral — Spotify Helps to Beat Music Piracy, European Commission Finds — When Spotify launched its first beta in the fall of 2008 we branded it “an alternative to music piracy.”
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Tech Times and Ars Technica UK
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCU sends cease-and-desist notice to fake news site, NBC.com.co, claimed by Paul Horner of Phoenix — NBCU Sends Cease-and-Desist Notice to Fake News Site — ‘Parody’ site has posted false news about ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘South Park’ — NY Digital Editor @xpangler
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