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3:15 PM ET, August 5, 2013

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New York Times:
The Last Temptation of Tina Brown  —  On Nov. 12, 2010, Tina Brown gathered the staff of her Web site The Daily Beast in the third-floor conference room at its Chelsea offices with its commanding views of the Hudson.  Brimming with the fervor she has brought to all her endeavors …
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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Newsweek has been sold to IBT Media, publishers of International Business Times; will remain ‘100% digital’
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Viewers Wait for CBS and Time Warner to Make Up  —  The two sides in the fee dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable stayed in their respective corners Sunday, and may not engage in further direct confrontation for some time.  —  As a result, CBS's stations, and cable networks owned by CBS …
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Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Time Warner Cable: We'll End Blackout If We Can Offer CBS A La Carte  —  In a letter, TWC CEO Glenn Britt asks to resume negotiations immediately, and wants the network to stop blocking CBS.com content from its broadband customers.  —  Time Warner Cable's CEO Glenn Britt on Monday sent …
Discussion: The Wrap and @wjcarter
Bloomberg:
Time Warner's blackout of CBS enters third day
Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
3 groups say they topped Henry's bid for Globe  —  Three of the groups that lost out in the bidding for The Boston Globe say their offers were higher than Red Sox owner John W. Henry's winning $70 million bid — prompting them to question the New York Times Co.'s sales process.
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Tim McLaughlin / Reuters:
From Boston hero to goat, billionaire John Henry takes on Globe challenge
Discussion: Newsonomics
David Carr / New York Times:
Parodying Cable News With a Talk About Race  —  On Tuesday night on MSNBC's “All In,” Chris Hayes had a very direct conversation about race with the Gawker writer Cord Jefferson.  Prompted by a news report of a group of young people in Huntington Beach, Calif., who looted and vandalized property …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Al Jazeera America sets own course  —  Weeks ahead of its debut, Al Jazeera America is doing things the old-fashioned way.  —  AJAM, as it's referred to by staff, is investing heavily in investigative journalism.  It is opening bureaus in cities across the country.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and @mattgertz
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Katharine Weymouth Takes Charge at the Washington Post  —  WASHINGTON — On the eve of the 2012 White House Correspondents' Dinner, this city's annual media-politico-Hollywood love fest, Katharine Weymouth convened the sort of Washington power dinner for which her grandmother, Katharine Graham …
Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:
For Twitter, Free Speech Is a High-Wire Act  —  As Micro-Blogging Site Expands Globally, It Gets Flak From Many Sides  —  Twitter Inc.'s growing ambitions are making it harder to carry the Internet's free-speech banner.  —  Chief Executive Dick Costolo promotes Twitter as a protector …
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Native Ads: The Digg Way  —  For most publishers entering the world of sponsored content the concern is keeping editorial separated from the creation of the advertising content.  —  Not so much at Digg, the social-news platform bought and revived by digital media holding company Betaworks.
Discussion: @bmorrissey and eMedia Vitals
Bob Cohn / Folio:
Good Comment, Bad Comment: Fixing a Broken System  —  Either commit to aggressive moderation or reconsider commenting's utility.  —  One of the great promises of digital journalism is that it breaks down barriers between publications and readers.  —  Consider print: You publish a story …
NetNewsCheck Latest:
Scripps Newspaper Rev Down 4% For Q2  —  Total revenue from newspapers in the second quarter was $93.5 million, down 3.8% from the second quarter of 2012, but an improvement over the first-quarter decline of 4.7%.  Digital advertising rose 6.6% during the quarter.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
David Levy Promoted to President, Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting  —  David Levy, the long-serving supervisor of ad sales, affilate relations and sports programming at Time Warner's Turner cable-network unit, is being upped to president in a move that brings an important player at the company closer …
 
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
NBC News President Deborah Turness To Staffers: ‘My First Job Is To Listen’
David Bauder / Associated Press:
PBS: Acting like a network as well as service
Discussion: @brianstelter
David Pogue / New York Times:
Chromecast, Simply and Cheaply, Flings Web Video to TVs
Frank Thorp / NBC Politics:
Asking Nancy Pelosi a question through Google Glass
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
How Justin Smith remakes media companies — and why the Atlantic will be fine without him
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and MinOnline
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Wall Street Journal becomes latest international news site to be blocked in China
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Court Rulings Blur the Line Between a Spy and a Leaker