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10:30 PM ET, August 12, 2013

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Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Technology Industry Extends a Hand to Struggling Print Media  —  From classifieds to display ads to subscriptions, the digital age has broken the financial pillars of print journalism, leaving the industry struggling to stand on its own.  —  But more frequently — and with a boom last week …
Discussion: FishbowlDC, GeekWire and MWD
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Alec Macgillis / The New Republic:
Hypocrisy for Sale: Craigslist Founder Invests in Journalism Ethics Book  —  Here's a fun little trip through an era of “disruption” in the media industry: … April 25, 2010, New York Times: … January 24, 2011, New York Daily News: … August 12, 2013, New York Times: … Ethics for journalists!
Tim Worstall / Forbes:
The First Thing Jeff Bezos Should Do At The Washington Post Is Fire Some Journalists  —  As someone peripherally a journalist I'm really not supposed to say such a thing: rather goes against the professional omerta to claim that there should ever, in any manner, be fewer journalists on anyone's payroll.
Discussion: GeekWire and Pressthink
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
To Stay Afloat, Bookstores Turn to Web Donors  —  For years, independent bookstores have taken creative steps to fight off challenges from Amazon and the superstores by building in-house espresso bars, hosting members-only lunches with authors and selling birthday cards, toys and trinkets.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Michael Bloomberg Won't Buy The New York Times Because He Hates It  —  When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, a popular theory that emerged was Michael Bloomberg purchasing The New York Times (if it ever went up for sale).  However, David Remnick, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker, says that's not going to happen.
USA Today:
Al Jazeera America: Will U.S. viewers buy it?  —  After Mike Viqueira was hired as White House correspondent for Al Jazeera's new American television venture, the former NBC News veteran braced for a barrage of negative reaction on Twitter.  “I expected some comments from people unfamiliar with Al Jazeera,” Viqueira says.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Al Jazeera America In Discussions With Time Warner Cable
Discussion: TVNewser
Investigative News Network:
Award-Winning Digital Entrepreneur Lisa Williams Joins INN as Director of Digital Engagement  —  Award-winning digital journalism entrepreneur Lisa Williams has joined the Investigative News Network as Director of Digital Engagement.  —  “Having someone of Lisa's caliber and experience join us …
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
A recipe for news: IFTTT adds New York Times support, more publications coming  —  ‘What we really want to do is open up IFTTT as a platform and let anyone make a channel.’  —  Whether it's having Dropbox back up every Instagram photo you take, getting a text message in the morning …
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Time Warner Cable-CBS dispute ‘run-of-the-mill,’ analyst says  —  CBS' headquarters in New York.  —  Time Warner Cable subscribers in Los Angeles, New York and Dallas may be steaming that they will miss the CBS series “Under the Dome” for the second week in a row because of a distribution dispute between the two companies.
Discussion: @alexrkonrad and Los Angeles Times
Patrick McGuire / VICE:
The Government Wants the Media to Stop Covering Barrett Brown  —  Barrett Brown has been sitting in prison, without trial, for almost a year.  In case you haven't followed his case, the 31-year-old journalist is facing a century of prison time for sharing a link that contained …
Discussion: @edsudden
Ted Johnson / Variety:
White House “Copyright Czar” Steps Down  —  Victoria Espinel, the first White House intellectual property coordinator, has stepped down after almost four years in the post, according to industry sources.  —  In a position that was dubbed “IP czar” or “copyright czar,” Espinel was responsible …
Anthony De Rosa / Soup:
The disconnect between traditional media and UGC  —  The majority of newsworthy video out of Syria, Egypt and all over the world, shot by camera phone finds its way to YouTube by way of citizens.  The first thought of the shooter is usually not: “I need to share this with a major TV news network” …
Discussion: @antderosa and New York Times
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David Goetzl / mediapost.com:
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Wattpad Launches New Self-Publishing Crowdfunding, First Revenue Model For The Social Network
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico Ramps Up Long-Form Journalism Effort
Discussion: Politico, PandoDaily and FishbowlDC
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Telegraph Media Group back digital, but will users pay?
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Internet TVs may drive consumers to cut pay TV cord
Discussion: TBI Vision and appmarket.tv
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
‘Like’ This Article Online? Your Friends Will Probably Approve, Too, Scientists Say
Discussion: TechCrunch
Natalia Mazotte / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Journalism and video games come together as a new form of storytelling in Brazil