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2:05 AM ET, October 30, 2015

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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:
Turkish media denounce 'biggest crackdown on press in republic's history'  —  Critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoan or government policies have been fired and pro-opposition media offices raided in run-up to elections  —  Turkish media are coming under what local journalists have described …
Discussion: @zeynep and @zeynep
Hurriyet Daily News:
Trustee panel halts printing of Koza Ipek Group newspapers
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.”
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.
Discussion: @joepompeo
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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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 …
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.
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.
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.”
Discussion: Tech Times and Ars Technica UK
 
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
BBC didn't contest seizure of Newsnight journalist's laptop, police force says
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Stephen G. Smith named National Journal editor-in-chief
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

 
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