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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott suspended for two weeks after she tweeted opinion following US House Syrian refugee vote — UPDATED: CNN correspondent suspended over tweet about House vote — This post has been updated to reflect that Labott has been suspended.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
New York Times commenting system criticized for favoring verified users, plans to include more automated moderation, faster posting for frequent commenters — Change Needed for Commenting That Favors the ‘Verified’ — In emails, in online comments and even in that wonder of our time called face …
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Politico Hires Brad Dayspring, Veteran G.O.P. Operative, as Spokesman — Politico is expanding at an aggressive pace, with new outlets opening from Brussels to New Jersey. And now they're hiring a communications expert with the same aggressive pedigree. — The growing news organization …
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Vasudevan Sridharan / International Business Times:
Bangladesh: Government briefly shuts down internet and mobile services — Bangladesh briefly shut down internet and mobile chat services after the country's top court upheld the death sentences of two opposition leaders. The services were restored after a 90-minute blackout.
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast adds Chicago to cities with access to Stream, its $15/month TV add-on for its internet subscribers; Seattle is next — Comcast launches streaming TV service that doesn't count against data caps — Stream TV for Internet-only customers available in Boston and Chicago.
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Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
Pearson and Dow Jones sell stakes in Russian newspaper Vedomosti — Pearson and Dow Jones have agreed to sell their stakes in Russian business newspaper Vedomosti, marking the exit of two of the last large foreign investors in Russian media before stricter limits on such stakes take effect on January 1 2016.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
NBC's Andy Lack in talks to simulcast Bloomberg TV politics show With All Due Respect, from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, on MSNBC — John Heilemann and Mark Halperin Ponder Game-Changing Deal With MSNBC — The cable network wants to simulcast the duo's Bloomberg TV politics show …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Behind Yahoo's $35M bet on Community and why it may have contributed to firm's $42M write-down — It Was Never Going to Be Easy for Yahoo to Make Money on ‘Community’ — Rescued TV sitcom contributed to Yahoo's $42 million write-down — Yahoo Inc., on its third-quarter earnings call …
Sneha Johari / MediaNama:
Sources: Times of India requires journalists to file three WhatsApp alerts, three online-first stories per week and three tweets per day, or face reduced pay — Times of India Group links journo salaries with breaking news on WhatsApp groups — The Times of India* group has created …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Zite will shut down on December 7, asks users to migrate data to Flipboard — If you're a user of the personal news aggregator Zite, you're going to want to pay attention. The app is being shuttered and all data should be migrated over to Flipboard before December 7.
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler praises T-Mobile's Binge On program, which exempts streaming video from data caps and downgrades resolution to reduce data usage — T-Mobile's data cap exemption for video gets FCC chairman's approval — Wheeler: T-Mobile zero-rating is “pro-competition” and “pro-innovation.”
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Sources: Adele's new album, 25, won't be available on streaming services when it's released on Friday; Adele involved in decision — Adele Is Said to Reject Streaming for ‘25’ — For weeks, the music industry has been awaiting the release of Adele's new album, “25,” with a mixture of excitement and anxiety.
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