Mediagazer: BBC news director tells staff not to tweet strong political views, saying there's no distinction between personal and official social media accounts (Jim Waterson/The Guardian)

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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

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Associated Press:

Following criticism, Twitter has stopped blocking French government ads urging people to vote; Twitter banned French political ads after new law on ad funding — PARIS (AP) — Twitter said Thursday it has stopped blocking French government ads calling on people to vote after it came under fire …

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Nat Levy / GeekWire:

Court filing: Amazon says it ended Woody Allen deal because his reactions to sexual abuse allegations destroyed any benefit it would get from working with him — Amazon said in a new court filing Wednesday that it ended a deal to finance and distribute films by Woody Allen because his …

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Brian Stelter / CNN:

Time EIC Edward Felsenthal says the magazine's staff has grown ~20% since the Benioff acquisition, part of an overall expansion including a Time 100 conference — New York (CNN Business)Time magazine's expansion plans — now that the publication is owned by Marc and Lynne Benioff — start with the Time 100 list.

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

BBC news director tells staff not to tweet strong political views, saying there's no distinction between personal and official social media accounts — Email from director of news comes after some staffers publicly complained about BBC coverage — The BBC has emailed all news staff warning …

Discussion: @arishapiro and @scottbix

Tom Roston / OneZero:

Current and former TiVo insiders on how the first DVR came to be, going up against cable companies, how IP licensing has kept the company relevant, and more — How the original DVR paved the way for Netflix and the cord-cutter movement — t's hard to believe, but a scant 20 years …

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Rob Price / Business Insider:

Facebook is paying the UK's The Daily Telegraph for dozens of sponsored stories, produced by the newspaper's sponsored content unit, on topics like hate speech — - Facebook is paying The Daily Telegraph to run a series of positive sponsored stories about it.

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Jack Crosbie / Splinter:

The BuzzFeed union accuses the company of union-busting as recognition drags; the company only wants to recognize specific titles, not the newsroom as a whole — I don't know where he was today. It's a Wednesday, so I'm assuming he was at work, or doing work somewhere.

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Brian Stelter / CNN:

Q&A with The City's EIC Jere Hester and chair of the board Ben Smith on the nonprofit site's plans, with a staff of 18 journalists: “We're here to collaborate” — New York (CNN Business)New York City now has its very own nonprofit news website.

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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:

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Anna Orso / Philly.com:

Anti-press rhetoric has not deterred students from pursuing a career in journalism, with some J-Schools reporting an increase in enrollment numbers — Emily Erdos wanted to be a reporter so badly that she begged administrators at Princeton to allow her to study journalism — a major the Ivy League school didn't offer.

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