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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour Live video, debuting on December 20, will be exclusive to Apple Music; Apple gets rights to Swift's name for store promotions — Apple Gets a Giant Taylor Swift Concert Exclusive (Because It Paid Taylor Swift) — Remember when Taylor Swift and Apple didn't get along …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Las Vegas Review-Journal removed questions about the newspaper's new mystery owner after article on the sale was published — Las Vegas Review-Journal Removed Questions About The Newspaper's New Mystery Owner In Article On Sale — No one knows who owns Nevada's largest media outlet.
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Bloomberg Business:
Alibaba to Buy South China Morning Post for $266 Million — Founder Jack Ma to follow Bezos in buying storied masthead — Alibaba pledges to ensure editorial freedom, scrap pay wall — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the e-commerce giant headed by billionaire Jack Ma …
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New York Times, Tech in Asia, Variety, Wall Street Journal and Shanghaiist
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Chialun Huang / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA:
How The Economist, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Financial Times have fared in delivering news in China — What's the latest on The Economist's Chinese news app? — It was the Economist's first venture into a non-English product in its 172-year history.
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@raju
Will Van Wazer / Washington Post:
Inside the move to HTTPS at The Washington Post: 10 months of work and hurdles in infrastructure, advertising, and the newsroom — Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS — In June of this year, the Post announced that we were switching our site to be HTTPS by default, starting with the homepage …
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@mathewi, @glenngabe, @zubintavaria and @heipei
Angie Drobnic Holan / New York Times:
Fact-checking is making gains among audience and media, despite truthiness from partisans on the left and right — All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others. — Washington — I'm a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties.
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Censor or die: The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels — CONTROLLING THE STORY: This is the fifth installment in an ongoing series examining the human cost of reporting the news around the world. — REYNOSA, Mexico — As deadline descended on El Mañana's newsroom …
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Guardian and Journalism and the World
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Profile of Mickey Kaus, a godfather of Democratic political blogging, who left the mainstream, now mostly tweets from home, and leans toward Trump — What The Hell Happened To Mickey Kaus? — How a godfather of Democratic political blogging became obsessed with immigration — and came around to Donald Trump.
The Daily Beast:
How Egyptian activists are using Twitter to try to locate missing friends and relatives — Egypt's Second Twitter Revolution — In 2011, Egyptian activists used social media to help overthrow a government. Now they use Twitter to find out what the new dictator has done with their missing friends.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Upworthy's push into original video has produced 40 videos with 3.44M views on average — Upworthy made a push into original video, and you'll totally believe what happened next — It's hard to watch this video of Nathan Bond painting his daughter's nails without getting a little bit choked up.
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@mallarytenore
Jon Mitchell / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party are increasingly curbing press freedom in Japan, particularly coverage critical of the government — In preparation to join US wars, Japan dismantles freedom of the press — In 2010, Japan was ranked #11 in Reporters Without Borders' global Press Freedom Index.
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The Diplomat and Index on Censorship
Hurriyet Daily News:
Turkish opposition leader meets with Cumhuriyet newspaper's imprisoned journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, calls for release of all 32 journalists in jail — 32 jailed journalists must be freed: CHP head — Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Klçdarolu …
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