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Jeremy Borden / Columbia Journalism Review:
How a little-known, Uber-driving freelancer brought the lawsuit that forced Chicago to release a police shooting video — It was the moment Brandon Smith and legions of media had been waiting for: the city of Chicago's release of a damning video that showed a white police officer shooting …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Amazon to bundle other online movie and TV subscriptions with Prime Instant Video as soon as next month, with most partners expecting to share revenue — Amazon Said Planning to Add Other Online Networks to Prime Video — Major movie, TV channels said to join Prime as partners
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Alex Weprin / Politico:
CNN pivots HLN back toward news — CNN is pivoting its sister channel HLN back toward news, abandoning the social media focus it had been pursuing in recent years. HLN's chief executive, Albie Hecht, will depart the channel, and CNN executive VP (and former HLN chief) Ken Jautz will step in on an interim basis.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Trust confirms BBC3 TV channel will be switched off and moved online by end of February 2016 — BBC3 TV channel to be switched off by February, BBC Trust confirms — Corporation's governing body rubber-stamps decision to move youth-oriented channel online, but calls for more youth programming on BBC1 and BBC2
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
New York Times staff writer Sarah Nir offers to cover the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade each year to celebrate life on the anniversary of a near-fatal attack — For The New York Times' Sarah Maslin Nir, covering the Macy's Parade is a life-affirming tradition
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Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:
Google received 15.7M copyright related URL takedown requests over one week in November, almost double from 8.2M last year — Google Received More Than 65 Million URL Takedown Requests In The Past Month — The number of URL copyright removal requests sent to Google continues to climb at a rapid rate.
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Google announces ad partner support for Accelerated Mobile Pages, its version of Facebook's Instant Articles, launching early next year — Google Announces New Advertising Support For AMP Pages — Fast-loading pages may also mean fast-loading ads, with advertising platform support for AMP that's been announced.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Pandora, iHeartRadio can stream songs from Adele's top-selling album 25, unlike Spotify, Apple Music, others, thanks to law for “non-interactive” services — Pandora is streaming Adele's 25 and her label can't stop it — Adele's 25 is the biggest album in the world right now …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Emails to and from State Department aide Philippe Reines show negotiations by Politico's Mike Allen for access to Chelsea Clinton and more — Emails Show Politico's Mike Allen Promised Positive Coverage of Chelsea Clinton — Few journalists are more thoroughly connected to Washington's power elite …
James Estrin / New York Times:
World Press Photo Introduces New Ethics Guidelines for Contest — The World Press Photo Foundation on Wednesday announced major changes to its photo contest for 2016, including a code of ethics for entrants and detailed guidelines regarding digital manipulation of images.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mail Online misses annual target on slowed digital advertising, revenue of £73m for the year to end of September, print ad revenue down 11%, growth rate at 16% — Mail Online misses £80m revenue target — Daily Mail & General Trust reports decline in print advertising of 12% …
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Baxter Holmes / Esquire:
Profile of The Washington Post's Executive Editor Martin Baron, who colleagues call one of the greatest newspaper editors of all time — Is Martin Baron the Best News Editor of All Time? — Most all of his colleagues, present and former, sure seem to think so.
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