The Media Stories for 2015

BBC Launches Machine-Translated Synthetic Voiceovers 24
Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong 294
Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers 268
WeMedia's Andrew Nachison Discusses the Future of Online Journalism 17
GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms 633
Phishing Blast Uses Dropbox To Target Hong Kong Journalists 12
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively 246
Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy 223
BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea 64
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle 223
And the Pulitzer Prize For SQL Reporting Goes To... 27
Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is To Hijack a Science Journal Website 18
Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format 206
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks 259
"Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games 367
Muzzled Canadian Scientists Can Now Speak Freely With Public 197
BBC Lets Viewers Buy Shows and Episodes Permanently, But No 'Extras' 80
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? 324
IMDb Hits 25 59
BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer 174
Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees 328
Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand 200
Former Reuters Media Editor Found Guilty of Helping Anonymous Hack Into LA Times 36
The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR 92
Nintendo Nixes YouTube Videos of Super Mario Speedruns 151
Vodafone Australia Employee Searched Journalist's Phone Records To Find Source 65
Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit Against Journalist 142
NASA Launching 4K TV Channel 41
Rupert Murdoch Buys National Geographic Magazine 286
Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption 145
Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' 275
Lights, Camera, Experiment! 14
Another Wave of Publications Shut Down Online Comments 226
New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change 185
CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video 222
Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange 226
Tech's Enduring Great-Man Myth 273
Microsoft Taps PBS To Advance Its National Talent Strategy With 'Code Trip' 43
HEVC Advance Announces H.265 Royalty Rates, Raises Some Hackles 184
YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos 23
Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results 188
Twitter Stock Jumps Nearly 8 Percent After Fake Report 92
Making FOIA-Requested Data Public: Too Much Transparency For Journalists? 139
The Guardian Looks At Hacking Team's Client List, Internal Communications 35
Ellen Pao Leaves Reddit; Site Founder Steve Huffman Makes a Triumphant Return 467
Towards Public-Friendly Open Science: YouTube Alongside Journal Articles? 77
Ask Slashdot: Which Expert Bloggers Do You Read? 203
BBC Reveals Its New Microcomputer Design 97
In Response to Open Letter, France Rejects Asylum For Julian Assange 146
Interviews: Brian Krebs Answers Your Questions 33
YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else 272
WikiLeaks' Latest: An Even More Massive Trove of Sony Documents 100
Kim Jong Un Claims To Have Cured AIDS, Ebola and Cancer 162
IMAX Tries To Censor Ars Technica Over SteamVR Comparison 190
Twitter To Introduce Curated Information Stream 37
Sunday Times Issues DMCA Takedown Notice To the Intercept Over Snowden Article 125
Journalist Burned Alive In India For Facebook Post Exposing Corruption 219
Pirate Party Founder Rick Falkvinge Launches News Service 66
Glen Greenwald: Don't Trust Anonymous Anti-Snowden Claims 222
Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond 474
Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content 408
Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan 84
How a Scientist Fooled Millions With Bizarre Chocolate Diet Claims 260
Death In the Browser Tab 96
Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian 396
WSJ Crowdsources Investigation of Hillary Clinton Emails 231
Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos 379
Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development 81
Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral 618
Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months 284
Counter-Strike Finally Gets the League It Deserves 113
WikiLeaks' Anonymous Leak Submission System Is Back After Nearly 5 Years 26
Facebook Wants to Skip the Off-Site Links, Host News Content Directly 51
Statues of Assange, Snowden and Manning Go Up In Berlin 161
ATT, DirecTV Mega-Merger May Go Through 82
The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop 64
Comcast Officially Gives Up On TWC Merger 112
Africa E-Waste Dump Continues Hyperbole War 78
German Court Rules Adblock Plus Is Legal 286
The Logistics of an eSports Tournament 48
Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference 191
Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties 301
Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 293
The Upsides of a Surveillance Society 254
French TV Network TV5Monde Targeted In 'Pro-ISIS' Cyberattack 71
Google Rolls Out VP9 Encoding For YouTube 109
Ask Slashdot: Options Beyond YouTube For An Indie Web Show? 60
Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear 662
NY Times: "All the News That Mark Zuckerberg Sees Fit To Print"? 79
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Semantic Publishing? 68
BBC Returns To Making Computers For Schools 106
Gigaom Closes Shop 101
NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool 169
A Critical Look At CSI: Cyber 145
Google Knocks Explicit Adult Content On Blogger From Public View 285
Pandora Pays Artists $0.001 Per Stream, Thinks This Is "Very Fair" 305
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube 81
BitTorrent Announces Exclusive TV Shows 25
Are Review Scores Pointless? 135
An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos 400
Canadian Climate Scientist Wins Defamation Suit Against National Post 297
The Man Who Invented the Science Fiction Paperback 99
Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? 645
MPAA Considers Major Changes After Sony Hack 65
Apple Said To Be Working On a Pay TV Service 155
Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data 197
Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor of Kentucky 120
Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut 420
Moot Retires From 4chan 184
Amazon Plans To Release 12 Movies a Year In Theaters and On Prime 92
President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars 105
An Open Letter To Everyone Tricked Into Fearing AI 227
Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases Second Issue CC-BY-SA 19
Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack 512
Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ 1350
Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low 400