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University students across Sydney have been paying other people to write their essays using a website called MyMaster. Lisa Visentin and Amy McNeilage report.

NSW universities are in damage control following a Fairfax Media investigation that revealed hundreds of students across the state were engaging the services of an online essay writing business.

On Wednesday, the Herald exposed an online business called MyMaster, run out of Sydney's Chinatown, that had provided more than 900 assignments to students from almost every university in NSW, turning over at least $160,000 in 2014.

Yingying Dou, who is the director of the MyMaster website, has taken the site down. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

A number of universities were holding emergency meetings when Fairfax Media called for comment this morning and most have declined requests for an interview.

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Professor Andrew Parfitt, the deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Newcastle, said the institution was "disappointed" but denied the cheating was systemic and said that there were mechanisms in place to catch offending individuals.

"I can't guarantee we can identify individual cases all the time. But we can identify across the course of a full course somebody who is systematically doing this sort of thing," he said, speaking on ABC Newcastle radio on Wednesday morning.

The MyMaster website received at least $26,410 from students at the University of Newcastle who submitted 123 requests for ghost written assignments - the second-highest number of requests from the 16 universities affected.

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Washington, Nov 11:

CNN has said that it is suspending broadcasting in Russia in light of recent changes in Russian media legislation, which aim to tighten the control on independent news media.

A statement from CNN International parent Turner International, which is part of the Time Warner conglomerate, offered no specific timetable, but the Tass news agency reported earlier that broadcasts would cease as of December 31.

Turner International is assessing its distribution options for CNN in Russia in light of recent changes in Russian media legislation, the Turner statement had said yesterday.

We are bringing our existing distribution relationships to an end while we do that. We hope to re-enter the market in due course, and will notify our partners of any update about resuming these services.

The statement noted that the CNN Moscow bureau operation, which covers Russia for the cable news operation, was unaffected.

Ukraine crisis

The move comes with Russian President Vladimir Putin increasingly at odds with independent news media, especially over coverage of the Ukraine crisis.

A new law limits foreign ownership of media to 20 per cent, threatening some of the countrys most respected independent media outlets.

The largest media organisations in Russia are owned by the state or controlled by Putin associates.

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County commissioners acknowledged Monday that Judge George Zimmerman, justice of the peace for Precinct 4, will be retiring effective at the end of the month.

Zimmerman, 78, who did not run for re-election, is retiring for health reasons. He served for 18 years.

I have to start thinking more about me and my health, instead of the job, Zimmerman said. Ive been scheduling doctors appointments around my on-call schedule and its getting to where I cant do that anymore.

Zimmermans successor will be John Wesley Barton, who won the Republican primary in March. He garnered 61 percent of the vote against two other opponents. Commissioners plan to appoint Barton to the judges post the day after Zimmermans retirement goes into effect. He would have assumed the position in January.

Barton previously worked in the Texas Department of Public Safety.

I think hes a man of high integrity and a good Christian, Zimmerman said of Barton.

County Judge Mike Bradford said Zimmerman, or Judge Z, has fulfilled his duties with no issues from the Commissioners Courts end.

He has been a loyal public servant from the first day he arrived, Zimmerman said. We wish him nothing but the best what whatever life he chooses to pursue now.

Zimmerman offered advice to the incoming judge.

If it goes like it did the last 18 years, hes going to have double the work in 18 years than he does now, Zimmerman said.

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Ocho founders Jonathan Swerdlin (left) and Jourdan Urbach

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

Ocho -- an iOS app that lets users create, edit and share eight-second videos -- launched out of beta on Tuesday. And it did so with quite a splash.

The new video-based social networking app is in the same space as Twitter's (TWTR, Tech30) Vine, Snapchat and Instagram. But the founders think their product will resonate with a much wider group than the video services of their counterparts.

The startup, founded by Jourdan Urbach and Jonathan Swerdlin, also announced that it received $1.65 million in funding from Shark Tank's Mark Cuban, along with other investors.

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The founders -- who are avid videographers -- said they wanted to create an app where they'd want to go to share videos with their friends.

Their goal is to "replicate the same degree of respect that Instagram creates for photos," said Urbach, 22.

Unlike existing services, Ocho lets users control videos' volume and add voiceovers. Users can shoot vertically or horizontally, but all of the videos are rendered in landscape. There are options to change the lighting conditions or create a time-lapse video (a la Instagram's Hyperlapse).

Urbach said they took "a lot of inspiration" from television when creating their platform. On playback, users can stream all of the videos in their feed in a row. For a true TV-like viewing experience, the social videos can also stream through devices like Apple TV.

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