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ExxonMobil is hurling ethics accusations against Columbia University journalists after climate report, hints at research funding or recruiting repercussions — Exxon takes aim at Columbia University journalists for role in climate reports — ExxonMobil is hurling ethics accusations …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Iterating Grace, a handwritten book mailed to Silicon Valley journalists and VCs in June, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; authors still anonymous — An Anonymous Satire of Silicon Valley Now Has a Publisher — This past June, mysterious packages containing copies of a slim …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Eddy Cue on Apple News: goal is to build a platform for news organizations, work continues on a version for China, no plans to employ journalists directly — Q&A with Apple exec about News app — This fall's upgrade to Apple's iPhone and iPad operating system comes with a new app called News.
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One Man & His Blog, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider and @brianstelter
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
How The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Slate are using Facebook Instant Articles, and why they want deeper metrics — “Why not be all the way in?” How publishers are using Facebook Instant Articles — As soon as Jeff Bezos heard about Facebook Instant Articles, he wanted to participate.
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Digiday, @mathewi, @niemanlab, @pariese, @st_eppel, @laurahazardowen and @niemanlab
John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Apple Music coming to Sonos as a public beta on December 15, general availability in early 2016 — Here Comes Apple Music For Sonos — At long last Apple Music is headed to Sonos. Making good on a promise made back in June, Sonos said Monday that Apple's new streaming music service …
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PR Newswire, Pocket-lint, Fast Company, Android Police, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, @jdalrymple, ZDNet, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal and Fortune
Craig Jarvis / The News & Observer:
Statewide newspaper planned for February launch in North Carolina from former state government staffers, funders undisclosed — Former DENR employees plan newspaper startup — Newspaper companies have taken a financial dive because of major shifts in advertising, readers' habits and other market forces over the past decade.
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@johnrobinson, @jayrosen_nyu, @raleighreporter, @nsjnews and @samantharrin
Human Rights Europe:
European Court of Human Rights unanimously finds Turkey's blocking of YouTube violated freedom of expression — Turkey: YouTube block breached human rights law — Judges ruled today that Turkey did violate European human rights law when it blocked access to YouTube for more than two years.
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Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Marietje Schaake and TodaysZaman
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
After acquisition by Verizon, AOL President Bob Lord, groomed as a successor to CEO Tim Armstrong, to leave company — AOL President Bob Lord to Leave Company — Executive once groomed to be next CEO wants to run a public company — AOL President Bob Lord plans to leave the company …
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The Drum, USA Today, AdExchanger and Hollywood Reporter
Garett Sloane / Digiday:
Snapchat finally enables publishers to ‘deep link’ to their Discover content — Snapchat's enabling its publishing partners to promote their channels on Facebook and Twitter with links directly to their content, the company said today. — The media partners, which include Hearst, IGN …
Keith Stuart / Guardian:
Why it's difficult to write comprehensive reviews about modern video games at launch — Has video game reviewing become an impossible task? … This month we have managed to shock a few readers by giving four of the year's biggest releases - Fallout 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Star Wars …
Paul D. Thacker / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ethical questions about who pays for travel and expenses for science journalists have become contentious — Where do science journalists draw the line? — The annual meeting for the National Association of Science Writers got off to a heated start last October in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Chromecast Outsold Roku, Others to Become #1 Streaming Device in Q3: Report — Google's Chromecast continues to be a hit, according to market research outlet Strategy Analytics, which estimates that the media streaming adapter accounted for 35 percent of all streaming devices sold worldwide in Q3.