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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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Discussion: Forbes and Quartz
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.
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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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 …
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 …
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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