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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
How The Intercept used anonymous Tor whistleblower tool SecureDrop for its prison phone call story — SecureDrop Leak Tool Produces a Massive Trove of Prison Docs — It's been more than two years since the debut of SecureDrop, a piece of software designed to help whistleblowers easily …
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The Intercept, Techdirt, VICE, The Daily Caller and The Verge
Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
ComScore: Washington Post tops New York Times online for first time ever — More people visited the Washington Post's website than The New York Times' in October, marking a significant milestone in the battle for old guard supremacy in online media. — Last month, the Washington Post raked …
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Washington Post, FishbowlNY and @raju
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Sources cite various reasons why the New York Times has delayed naming a replacement for media columnist David Carr — New York Times Grapples With David Carr's Legacy — The paper seeks fellow in honor of late journalist, but high-profile column remains unfilled.
Doreen Carvajal / New York Times:
Anne Frank's father added as a legal co-author of “The Diary of Anne Frank”, extending the book's copyright protection to 2050 — Anne Frank's Diary Gains ‘Co-Author’ in Copyright Move — PARIS — When Otto Frank first published his daughter's red-checked diary and notebooks …
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The Next Web, @martinsfp and @tasena
Om Malik:
Facebook Notify: easy to set up and use, good for generic mass news consumption, but bland for news junkies — A Quick Notify App Review! — Somewhere deep in the bowels of Googleplex, someone is wondering, Why the hell did we shut down Google Reader? Because it seems these days everyone wants …
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@davewiner
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
TV Programmers Push Netflix for Promotions, Branding — ABC's ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ negotiated for network logo branding — When a Netflix subscriber selects a TV show to watch on the streaming service, the action usually starts right away. — But that's not the case …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Some publishers complain about underwhelming traffic from Apple News, no real-time data, delayed comScore integration, but Washington Post is pleased — Publishers are underwhelmed with Apple News app — When Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp expressed frustration with his company's performance …
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MediaPost, @mikeisaac, Fortune, MacDailyNews, Digital Trends, Poynter, campaignlive.co.uk, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal
Marty Swant / Adweek:
Google Unveils New Programmatic Native and Full-Screen Mobile Video Ads — Google is now offering programmatic ads for native content and mobile video publishers, working with its DoubleClick clients like eBay. — Such publishers can make native ad units available for programmatic demand …
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Digiday, @digitlscientist, AdExchanger and Ad Age
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Poynter cuts budget deficit by 35%, reports $2.26 million operating loss for 2014 — The Poynter Institute reported today that it grew income and reduced expenses in 2014, cutting its operating loss by 35 percent from the previous year, but still ended with a $2.26 million operating deficit.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
FanDuel and DraftKings ask New York Supreme Court to throw out attorney general's order to stop taking bets — FanDuel and DraftKings Are Suing New York's Attorney General — Things are getting ugly in New York for daily fantasy sports. — Industry leaders DraftKings and FanDuel …
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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Tow Center conference debates the unsettled relationship between publishers and platforms — What Should Media Companies Do in a World Controlled by Giant Platforms? — Every week or two, it seems, another giant web platform introduces something that alters the landscape for media companies.
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TOWCenter, Columbia Journalism Review, Scripting News, Politico and Featured stories
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook brings 360-degree videos to iOS, opens up format to brands with first ads from AT&T, Samsung, Corona, Walt Disney World, others — Facebook Unleashes VR-Style 360 Videos For Ads And iOS — Zuck says VR is the future and Facebook is wasting no time building it into the News Feed and starting to make money off it.
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