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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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@seanw801, Talking New Media, @seanw801, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Long Island Business News, @mattcutts, Talking New Media, @timkarr, @richardkeppler1, Daily Oklahoman, Arizona Capitol Times, Gawker, CNNMoney, StreetInsider.com, @jayrosen_nyu, @klnorvell, FishbowlNY, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, Jay Rosen and @karoli
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, Fortune, Poynter, Wall Street Journal, Tech in Asia, Variety, Wall Street Journal and Shanghaiist
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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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@ow, @mathewi, @glenngabe, @padraig, @zubintavaria and @heipei
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Police Scotland reveals 12 RIPA applications to find journalists' sources — Police Scotland has become the first UK force to release details of how many times it accessed phone records to find journalistic sources. — The force used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act …
Angie Drobnic Holan / New York Times:
With the 2016 election campaign ongoing, audiences are increasingly demanding fact-checking be integrated into political news stories — All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others. — Washington — I'm a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties.
Kathryn Snowdon / Huffington Post UK:
Sky News Reporter Katie Stallard ‘Physically Silenced’ By Masked Men Outside Beijing Court — Footage showing journalists being violently pushed around by Chinese police outside a courthouse shows the reality of what life is really like under the rule of Xi Jinping.
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The Independent and Sky News
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, @barrydstocker 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.
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@michaelsocolow, @fmanjoo, @digg, @peterhimler, @patrickruffini, @drfarls, @mrwaltershapiro, @jacobwe, @anncoulter, @kausmickey, @maggienyt, @kausmickey, @wexler, @jmartnyt, @mikedrewwhat, @kausmickey, @jayrosen_nyu, @dan_munz, @legallysocial, @michaelsocolow, @underoak, @chrisgeidner and @kausmickey
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Lucasfilm, Apple veterans, including ex-Industrial Light and Magic CTO Scott Squires, raise $6M for Pixvana, a VR streaming solution for movie studios — Video Tech Veterans Raise $6 Million for Virtual Reality Streaming Startup — Seattle-based Pixvana has raised a $6 million seed round …
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Hollywood Reporter, Business Wire, VRFocus and Road to VR
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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