Mediagazer: Sun website to scrap paywall (Mark Sweney/Guardian)

12:00 PM ET, October 30, 2015

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Sun website to scrap paywall — Publisher News UK set to makes U-turn and offer its content for free from 30 November in bid to compete with rivals such as Mail Online — The Sun is poised to make a major U-turn by scrapping its paywall and offering most of its website content for free.

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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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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:

The New York Times' 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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Jeremy Barr / Politico:

POLITICO Magazine editor Garrett Graff leaving — POLITICO Magazine editor Garrett Graff is leaving the company, and will be replaced on an interim basis by Steve Heuser, according to a Friday morning memo from POLITICO editor Susan Glasser. — Heuser will continue to edit The Agenda, a recently launched, policy-oriented vertical.

Terence Lee / Tech in Asia:

From zero to 3 billion monthly pageviews: Dailyhunt's rise to become India's top news app — Virendra Gupta, the founder and CEO of Verse Innovation, doesn't get much sleep. “There's not a single boring day,” he says as we meet in his office in Bangalore. — But when he does get some shut-eye, he's probably smiling.

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

NarcoData is a new collaboration that aims to track and visualize the drug cartels of Mexico — NarcoData, a collaboration between Mexican digital news site Animal Politico and data journalism platform Poderopedia, launched Tuesday with a mission to shine light on organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico.

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Bucking national trend, Charleston's privately owned Post and Courier plans to hire a DC correspondent in January — Bucking national trend, the Post and Courier plans to open D.C. bureau — After nine people were fatally shot at a prominent black church in Charleston, South Carolina this June …

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

BBC says ‘troubling’ Terrorism Act did not allow it to argue against giving reporter's laptop to police — The BBC has said it did not resist the police seizure of a reporter's laptop because the Terrorism Act 2000 does not allow it to mount a freedom of speech defence.

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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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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
Time Warner Cable Q3: revenue up 3.6% to $5.92B, video subscribers down 7K, internet customers up 232K

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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 …

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Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Apple asks Supreme Court to overturn appellate court's guilty verdict in e-books anti-trust case — Apple asks U.S. Supreme Court to toss e-books antitrust decision — Apple Inc has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court decision that found the iPad maker conspired …

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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.