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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Columbia University journalism dean Steve Coll disputes Exxon Mobil's criticism of journalists who produced climate report — Columbia Disputes Exxon Mobil on Climate Risk Articles — The dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on Tuesday rebutted accusations by Exxon Mobil …
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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 …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
App Annie: Spotify top-ranked music streaming app worldwide in Q3 2015, Pandora retains lead in US on iPhone and Android — Spotify Claims Streaming Music Throne Worldwide, But Pandora Is Still Top Service In U.S. — Spotify is the world's top streaming music service in terms of active users …
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App Annie Blog and RAIN News
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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Apple Music coming to Sonos as a public beta on December 15, general availability in early 2016
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Android Police, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, App Advice, Engadget, MacRumors, Fortune and Gizmodo UK
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Huffington Post employees ask the company to voluntarily recognize their union, Writers Guild of America-East — Employees ask Huffington Post to recognize union — Huffington Post employees have asked the company to voluntarily recognize their union with the Writers Guild of America-East.
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Poynter, CNNMoney, WWD, Vanity Fair, Ad Age, @mlcalderone, @petersterne, USA Today, TechCrunch, FishbowlNY and @petersterne
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Chartbeat headline study shows formulaic rules don't necessarily improve click-through rates, but testing many alternative headlines significantly helps CTR — Most of your headline writing tricks don't work, apart from these two — Analytics firm Chartbeat has published a new study …
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Chartbeat Blog and @whatthebit
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paid members — In the two years since it began publishing in the fall of 2013, the Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paying members, the site said Tuesday. — De Correspondent launched out of a crowdfunding effort in 2013 …
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Fortune, Medium and @niemanlab
Maria Sheahan / Reuters:
German magazine Der Spiegel is cutting one-fifth of its staff and adding a paywall, is considering launching a digital news service, other initiatives — Germany's Spiegel magazine to cut jobs, launch paywall — Dec 1 Germany's influential newsweekly Der Spiegel said on Tuesday …
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Phys.org
Chris Ariens / Adweek:
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes objects to ABC plans for a comedy using its trademarked slogan, “Fair and Balanced” — Fox Isn't Laughing About an ABC Sitcom Called ‘Fair and Balanced’ — Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes isn't amused by ABC's plans for a comedy called Fair and Balanced.
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@jasonlynch, @kevinmkruse, @eriqgardner and @alexweprin
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
French journalist in China ‘intimidated by state newspapers’ — A French journalist working in China has been subject to intimidation after writing about the Beijing government's reaction to the Paris attacks. — Now the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) has issued a statement registering its …
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Reporters Without Borders
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How The Washington Post leapfrogged The New York Times in Web traffic — The Washington Post proclaimed itself “America's new publication of record” after it broke another online traffic record in October, surpassing The New York Times for the first time. — There are a lot of factors …
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Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, @pkcapitol, @derekwillis, @raju, @derekwillis, Fortune, @lheron, @lpolgreen, @lmoses, @pennyriordan1, @mdeziel, @jyarow, @mlcalderone and @wblau
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
News Corp names Daily Telegraph Editor Paul Whittaker editor-in-chief of The Australian, replacing retiring Chris Mitchell; Chris Dore will replace Whittaker — Daily Telegraph's Paul Whittaker named editor-in-chief of the Australian — Whittaker takes over from long-standing chief …
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mUmBRELLA, TheAustralian and Crikey
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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