Mediagazer: Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google (Reuters)

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

State Dept. Blasts CNN For Using Dead Ambassador's Journal — NEW YORK — The State Department blasted CNN Saturday night for the network's handling of a personal journal belonging to late U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, which was removed from the site of the deadly Sept. 11 consulate attack.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Mediaite, Gawker, All Things CNN, nation.foxnews.com, CNN, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

Wall Street Journal:

Family Protests CNN's Use of Slain Envoy's Journal — CNN obtained a personal journal that belonged to the slain American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and broadcast reports based on its contents against the wishes of the Stevens family, according to relatives and State Department officials …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Deadline.com and Inside Cable News

David Carr / New York Times:

Atlantic Covering Business World With Digital Quartz Site — Business titans are generally not prone to self-appraisal, and when they do take stock, it usually begins and ends with a list of their conquests. — David G. Bradley, the owner of Atlantic Media, has never been like that.

Reuters:

Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google — (Reuters) - Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the latest way to control their access to the web.

Discussion: Guardian, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget and AllThingsD

Mona Zhang / FishbowlNY:

Patch Launches A More Social, More Mobile Site — In recent months, there's been much talk of the booming New York tech scene. The city has the fastest growing tech sector in the nation, helped along by Mayor Bloomberg's pitch to entrepreneurs and his Made in NY Digital Map.

Discussion: paidContent, Street Fight and 10,000 Words

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Philippe Dauman, the Man Who Would Be Redstone — FROM up in the carob trees come the strains of great movie themes: the sad hum of “Love Story,” the creepy lull of “Rosemary's Baby,” the jazzy screech of “Chinatown.” Below, just outside the grand entrance of the building where Adolph Zukor …

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Village Voice Media Execs Acquire The Company's Famed Alt Weeklies, Form New Holding Company — A group of long-running alternative weekly newspapers is changing hands. Village Voice Media Holdings — whose titles include the LA Weekly, Westword, and, yes, the Village Voice …

Discussion: Forbes, AdAge and Village Voice

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian's chief investigator wants ISP tax to fund journalism — His reporting has helped expose arms payments by BAE, secret US government cable messages and lately has focused on News Corporation. Now The Guardian's influential investigations editor and assistant editor is mooting …

Discussion: m.guardiannews.com

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of all-access delight — Remember the first time you got cross-platform delight? — For me, it was when I started a second look at “Lost in Translation” on my TV, happened to click on my Netflix app while working out the next day, and was astounded to see the film paused precisely …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history — One of the characteristics of the modern media age — at least for anyone who uses the web and social media a lot — is that we are surrounded by vast clouds of rapidly changing information, whether it's blog posts or news stories or Twitter and Facebook updates.

Discussion: The Daily Beast and PC Magazine

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

How Romney Packed The Univision Forum — Tense moments as the campaign demands to bus in supporters and to retape an introduction. “A little bit of disrespect,” complains Univision's Salinas. — Romney at Univision and Facebook's “Meet the Candidates” forum, moderated by Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite, TVNewser, New York Magazine and The Raw Story

Doug Drinkwater / TabTimes:

The Financial Times marches to a different app drummer; embraces HTML5, Android, Windows 8 — Rob Grimshaw is the managing director of FT.com — HTML5 pioneer and business news publisher The Financial Times talks about the future of web apps, its preference for Windows 8 over iOS …