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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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Las Vegas Review-Journal, @mattcutts, @timkarr, @richardkeppler1, @klnorvell, @seanw801 and @seanw801
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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 …
Discussion:
@taylorswift13, AppleInsider, App Advice, Forbes, The Next Web, Billboard, EW.com, The Verge, @pkafka, MacRumors, TechCrunch, New York Times, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Variety, Engadget, Tech Insider and Fortune
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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@zubintavaria, @glenngabe 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.
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 …
Discussion:
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, Variety and Tech in Asia
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.
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 …
Discussion:
Journalism and the World
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
The Tab, a hyperlocal news site written by unpaid student journalists, raises $3M from Balderton Capital to fund its expansion in the US — The Tab Raises $3M For Its Hyperlocal News Site Written By Unpaid Student Journalists — The online disruption of journalism continues apace.
Discussion:
@whatthebit, City A.M., PE Hub Blog, Telegraph and Business Insider
Samia Errazzouki / Associated Press:
Online journalism in Morocco struggles as monarchy and government counter with websites and efforts to silence critics — Moroccan government and critics vie for online audiences — 7 photos — CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — The newest entrant to Morocco's media scene has already reported …
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 …
Joseph Cox / Wired:
News outlets like The Daily Mail, DrudgeReport, and Forbes have been recently hit with malvertising, malicious ads meant to hack readers' computers — Hacker Lexicon: Malvertising, the Hack That Infects Computers Without a Click — Malvertising is when hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website …
Discussion:
@whatthebit
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Skift gets 30 percent of its revenue from branded content — Media companies eyeing new revenue streams have embraced branded content as the area most ripe for growth. It's the same story on the business-to-business side, where many publishers hope to make big bucks helping B2B brands tell their stories.
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@digiday, Thanks:@steverubel
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