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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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Re/code, @jayrosen_nyu, @tripgabriel, Fortune, Gawker, iMediaEthics, @nero, @cernovich, @1938loren, @daschles, @therealferndiaz, @eisingerj and @sulliview
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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Press Gazette, TechRadar.com and Londonlovesbusiness.com
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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NPR, NPR, The New York Observer, Medium, Current.org, iMediaEthics, @smartbitches, @kevinmdraper and Poynter
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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@zeynep, @zeynep, The Newspaper Guild, @nycjim and Hurriyet Daily News
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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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The Intercept, @benweinthal, DailySabah, Hurriyet Daily News, The Journal of Turkish Weekly, TodaysZaman and Bugun.com.tr
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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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, Wall Street Journal, PR Newswire, Hollywood Reporter, The Hill, Multichannel News, Deadline, FierceCable, Broadcasting & Cable, Ad Age and Variety
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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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Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, TeleRead, The Mac Observer, The Hill, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Fortune, The Verge and iMore
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.
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
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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@versharma and @anaelisafoto