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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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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
CNN's Punishment of Refugee-Defending Journalist Highlights Media Abdication — CNN yesterday suspended its global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott, for two weeks for the crime of posting a tweet critical of the House vote to ban Syrian refugees. Whether by compulsion or choice, she then groveled in apology.
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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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Maury Brown / Forbes:
Major League Baseball announces three-year deal with 15 regional sports networks to stream in-market games on Fox, requires cable authentication — Manfred Announces 3-Year Deal With FOX To Have MLB Games Streamed In-Market — As part of the General Managers meetings in Dallas …
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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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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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Sky News senior executive Rob Owens joins Twitter UK as head of news and government partnerships — Twitter raids Sky for new head of UK news — Sky News senior executive Rob Owers joins Twitter to lead UK news team and develop government and industry partnerships
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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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 …
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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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 …
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