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3:15 PM ET, September 14, 2016

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Kelly Liyakasa / AdExchanger:
Google and AppNexus sever ties with ComboTag, the partner company behind Adblock Plus' ad exchange; ComboTag says the exchange will still go ahead  —  Google has severed its relationship with ComboTag, the Israeli startup that sourced buyers for Adblock Plus' recently launched Acceptable Ads Platform.
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Adblock Plus launches a marketplace for Acceptable Ads, will get 6% revenue from ads and publishers will receive 80%  —  Adblock Plus is launching a new service that... uh, puts more ads on your screen.  —  Rather than stripping all ads from the internet forever, Adblock Plus is hoping …
Aoife White / Bloomberg:
EU publishes proposals for new copyright rules which would allow news publishers to demand payment from aggregators like Google News  —  Copyright plan may curb online use of news articles, content  —  EU also seeks to bolster rights of music performers, authors
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
New EU proposals would make VOD content from services including Netflix, Amazon Prime, and BBC iPlayer more readily available across all member states  —  Siim Teller is a big fan of the British Broadcasting Corporation.  A 37-year-old Estonian, he got hooked on the documentaries …
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Spotify hits 40M paid subscribers, up 10M in five months, compared to Apple Music's growth of about 4M over roughly the same period  —  Spotify today confirmed it has reached the 40 million paid subscriber milestone.  —  In a tweet shared by Spotify's official Twitter account today …
Rafat Ali / Skift:
Travel news site Skift expands into food and drink coverage, will host and distribute Chefs+Tech newsletter written by veteran journalist Kristen Hawley  —  The future of dining out, as told by the Chefs+Tech weekly newsletter.  —  Skift Take: Chefs+Tech is a natural expansion of the Skift umbrella …
Discussion: @dangillmor, @luke_beatty and @rafat, Thanks:@steverubel
Politico:
More details emerge about CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski's involvement with Trump's presidential campaign; he is advising its top officials  —  Ousted Trump campaign manager playing a widening role behind the scenes.  —  Among the Trump campaign staffers and VIPs mingling in a back room …
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Fact-checking debates in real-time is a burden moderators are not as well suited to handle as seasoned staffers at Politifact or The Washington Post  —  Presidential debate moderators often go into hiding as they prepare to carry out their thankless jobs.  But Fox News' Chris Wallace caused …
Discussion: @mlcalderone
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Presidential debate moderators must keep control, assert truth in real time, ask follow-up questions, and more
Jason Leopold / VICE News:
VICE files FOIA lawsuit against the IRS, demanding it turn over Trump's tax returns, and against the FBI, seeking info on two controversial campaign comments  —  For more than a year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has claimed that he would “love” to release his tax returns …
Discussion: Scripting News
NorthJersey.com:
After purchasing North Jersey Media Group in July, Gannett to make 200+ staffers redundant  —  North Jersey Media Group announced Wednesday an ambitious restructuring designed to make its newsroom and sales department more responsive to the growing digital demands of readers and advertisers.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
UK Parliamentary committee finds ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler, legal manager Tom Crone, in contempt over phone hacking evidence given to government  —  Parliamentary standards committee finds against newspaper's former editor and legal manager over evidence they gave
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook's VP of product management Adam Mosseri says the company is actively working on tech to prevent fake news stories from showing up in Trending section  —  Following the controversial firing of the editorial team who managed the Trending Topics that appear next to Facebook's News Feed …
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
How News Corp's Storyful became the agent for the creator of video of Clinton at 9/11 event, charging news orgs “a couple hundred thousand” for rights so far
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
YouTube launches beta of Community, which lets creators share photos, text, more into Subscriptions feed; subs can opt-in to new post notifications
Wall Street Journal:
Jay-Z's music streaming service Tidal posted a loss of $28M in 2015, compared to $10M in 2014
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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