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7:15 AM ET, September 7, 2015

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Reuters:
Dutch journalist says she has been arrested in Turkey, but government official says she was detained for her safety in a zone where there was fighting  —  Turkey says Dutch journalist detained ‘for her own safety’  —  A Dutch journalist who in January was acquitted by a Turkish court …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Pagefair's estimate that publishers will lose $21.8B due to ad blocking ignores law of supply and demand, so is likely overstated  —  Widely Cited Ad Blocking Study Finding $21.8 Billion Loss Is Incorrect  —  Supply and demand were purposefully overlooked, leading to larger number.
Discussion: Business Insider and @whatthebit
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Profile of Stephen Colbert as his CBS Late Show prepares for its debut on Tuesday  —  Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope  —  On a recent Monday night, Stephen Colbert was about as high atop the Ed Sullivan Theater as one can be, looking out over the 200 or so employees of his CBS …
Discussion: Guardian, Gothamist and The Week
Brian Rohan / Associated Press:
Egypt court releases full ruling in Al-Jazeera English case  —  3 photos  —  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court released a detailed ruling Sunday on why it sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison for airing what it described as “false news” and biased coverage …
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Mommy blog Dooce's semi-retirement speaks to the challenges of earning money as an individual blogger today  —  Can Mommy Bloggers Still Make a Living?  —  The success story of Dooce.com was once blogger lore, told and re-told in playgroups and Meetups—anywhere hyper-verbal people with Wordpress accounts gathered.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
FOIA site MuckRock launches new efforts to let users track projects and contribute to reporting costs  —  MuckRock is also debuting project pages that will highlight groups of FOIA requests and let users follow specific stories.  —  For the past year, Beryl C.D. Lipton has been investigating …
Bourree Lam / The Atlantic:
US households pay an average $231 a year renting cable boxes, creating a $19.5B industry that gives little incentive to innovate  —  Cable-Box Rentals: A Needless $19-Billion Industry  —  One of the least glamorous realities of the American cable industry is a relic invented in 1948: the cable box.
David Post / Washington Post:
Trans Pacific Partnership treaty appears to contain language that may prevent US from eliminating statutory damages for orphan works  —  In a dark corner of the Trans-Pacific Partnership lurks some pretty nasty copyright law  —  The extent to which our international obligations interact with …
Discussion: Techdirt
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
IAB Explores Its Options to Fight Ad Blockers, Including Lawsuits  —  Trade Org Has Held Two Summits This Summer to Map a Course of Action  —  As the digital media and advertising industries come to grips with the rise of ad blocking, so is one of the industry's more prominent organizing bodies.
Hollywood Reporter:
Aretha Franklin wins injunction preventing airing of documentary “Amazing Grace” at Telluride  —  Aretha Franklin Granted Injunction to Stop Telluride Showing of ‘Amazing Grace’  —  The singer says the new film showing her 1972 performance violated her rights to name and likeness and invaded her privacy.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
DirecTV, Al Jazeera Settle $75 Million Lawsuit  —  As the Qatari-backed cable news network faces new claims from Al Gore, it settles a carriage dispute with the satellite giant.  —  DirecTV and Al Jazeera America have reached a deal that resolves dueling legal claims over carriage of the Qatari-backed cable news network.
Alex Heath / Tech Insider:
How Spotify is using Echo Nest algorithms and humans to create its Discovery Weekly playlist  —  Spotify is getting unbelievably good at picking music — here's an inside look at how  —  There's a playlist on Spotify I love called Discover Weekly.  It's updated every Monday with a mix of songs …
Discussion: @flaneur
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI's first device will be a moveable, screen-free smart speaker with a camera and sensors, meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion

Milana Vinn / Reuters:
Sources: Stripe and PE firm Advent International have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B+

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