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5:35 PM ET, November 8, 2015

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Dina al-Shibeeb / Al Arabiya:
Founder of Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm, Salah Diab, arrested on charges of corruption along with his son, assets frozen  —  Founder of Egyptian paper Al-Masry al-Youm arrested  —  Salah Diab, a businessman who in 2004 founded Egyptian daily al-Masry al-Youm was arrested on early Sunday …
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Associated Press:
Egyptian journalist Hossam Bahgat under interrogation by military intelligence, may face charges of publishing false information that harms national interests  —  Egyptian journalist faces accusations by military  —  CAIRO (AP) — A leading investigative journalist and human rights advocate …
The Intercept:
The Intercept partners with Parse.ly to create anonymized analytics system for its site, to be activated in about a week  —  What The Intercept's New Audience Measurement System Means for Reader Privacy  —  Earlier this year, The Intercept got a new visual identity, the first step in a multi-phase redesign.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
The Conversation:
New research shows you're likely paying for free online news with your privacy  —  Think you're reading the news for free?  New research shows you're likely paying with your privacy  —  You may already know that every time you go online, your browsing history could be exposed …
Discussion: @us_conversation and @dangillmor
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Creator of Russia Today and former Russian minister of press, Mikhail Lesin, found dead in Washington DC hotel  —  Putin Associate Found Dead in DC Hotel  —  A prominent Russian millionaire with high-level ties to the Kremlin has been found dead inside a Washington hotel, a Russian official and a senior U.S. official told ABC News.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
NPR's new Earbud.fm discovery tool provides crowdsourced podcast recommendations  —  NPR's new podcast concierge recommends shows from inside — and outside — public radio  —  Seventeen percent of Americans age 12 and older have listened to at least one podcast in a given month …
Discussion: Guardian and RAIN News
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Gamergate film based on Zoe Quinn's memoir in the works from Amy Pascal's production company  —  Amy Pascal Wins Zoe Quinn's Gamergate Memoir ‘Crash Override’  —  EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal's Pascal Pictures has won a bidding battle for Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Editors from AOL's failed Patch effort talk about how it taught them skills and served as an incubator for a crop of new local news sites  —  Grown from Patch: A crop of new hyperlocal news sites has sprung up from AOL's failed platform  —  The general conception of Patch …
Discussion: @jimbrady
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Reddit debuts original video with Cyborg Nation, a six part series of documentary shorts  —  Say hi to Reddit, the budding Netflix wannabe  —  Reddit just joined the original-video scene.  With its first series of documentary shorts debuting Wednesday, Reddit wants to raise the profile …
Discussion: @kashhill
Patrick Kulp / Mashable:
Ad-blocking is widely loathed that one company held a peace summit about it  —  If any one company is at the heart of the recent ad blocking phenomenon, it's Eyeo GmbH, the German software developer behind the popular extension AdBlock Plus.  —  An estimated 200 million people …
Sonia Paul / MediaShift:
Contently, which matches writers with firms seeking content marketing, is financing a separate investigative journalism unit  —  How Contently's Content Marketing Funds Investigative Journalism  —  Click on the image for a look at the full series.  Original photo by Jeff Djevdet and used here with Creative Commons license.
 
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