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11:00 PM ET, August 14, 2013

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Elizabeth Spiers / Flavorwire:
How Not to Launch a Site for Women: An Open Letter to Bustle.com Founder, Bryan Goldberg  —  Yesterday BleacherReport.com founder Bryan Goldberg announced that he had received $6.5 million in funding for a new women's site called Bustle.com from a variety of investors including Social+Capital Partnership …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Committee To Protect Journalists Marks Grim Milestone Of 1,000 Killed  —  NEW YORK — The Egyptian military and police crackdown Wednesday on Muslim Brotherhood protesters reportedly led to the deaths of more than 100 hundred people, including a journalist covering the carnage, Sky News cameramen Mick Deane.
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7daysindubai.com:
UAE journalist dies in Egypt clashes  —  A journalist who worked for a Dubai newspaper was shot dead in Cairo on Wednesday.  —  Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, died in Rabaa Al Adawiya Square amid clashes between Egyptian police and supporters of the country's ousted president, Mohammed Morsi.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and @iwmf
Sam Marsden / Telegraph:
British cameraman for Sky News killed in Egypt
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Time Warner Cable Slapped With Class Action Suit Over CBS Blackout  —  Three Southern California residents demand restitution over retransmission standoff  —  The stakes in the standoff between CBS and Time Warner Cable have just been upped once again — and this time it's angry viewers who are doing the upping.
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Blacked Out in 3 Cities, CBS Still Wins Ratings Race
Discussion: MWD, The Wrap and Los Angeles Times
Eric Celeste / FrontBurner:
Dallas Morning News Will Get Rid of Its Paywall and Debut New Premium Site in September  —  I asked some head honchos today about what newsroom sources have been telling me for weeks: that the DMN is switching to a “premium” site for subscribers and will do away with its paywall in September.
Discussion: CNET and @mathewi
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
What we can all learn from the New York Times website outage  —  The more we rely on digital information, the more vulnerable we are.  Everyone needs a Plan B, independent of third-party hosts  —  Several hours after the New York Times website and mobile app went offline on Wednesday morning …
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CNN Plans ‘Complete Overhaul’ Of Digital Operation For Fall  —  CNN is planning its most significant changes to CNN.com and the CNN digital platforms in more than a decade for the Fall.  The channel is preparing to launch a redesigned site that not only looks different to users …
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Apple ordered to prepare for May 2014 trial on e-book antitrust damages  —  An order issued on Tuesday by U.S District Court Judge Denise Cote, who is presiding over the Justice Department's antitrust case against Apple's e-book pricing policies, notes all parties must by ready for a damages trial tentatively scheduled for May 2014.
Discussion: Reuters
Kira Witkin / WAN-IFRA:
Publishers launch sponsored content factories, but ethics are unclear  —  A number of news organizations, including The Huffington Post and Wired, have recently launched in-house creative agencies to amp up lucrative sponsored content offerings.  But the ethics in this new territory are unclear …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New York Times Weaves Custom Ads Into 'Snow Fall'-Like ‘The Jockey’  —  ‘This Time We Learned From Our Mistakes’  —  “The Jockey,” The New York Times' new 10,000-word profile of horse racing legend Russell Baze, will draw comparisons to “Snow Fall” for its immersive web design and multimedia elements.
BBC:
Bradley Manning ‘sorry’ for hurting US with Wikileaks  —  Pte First Class Bradley Manning has apologised for hurting the US by leaking a trove of classified US government documents to Wikileaks.  —  Pte Manning, 25, spoke at the sentencing hearing of his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Testing Out A New ‘TV Trending’ Box At The Top Of Your Timeline  —  Twitter is betting big on TV, both as a source of traffic and as a potential source of lucrative advertising revenue.  And that's leading the company to test out new ways of bringing even more TV content — and traffic — to its platform.
 
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Kira Witkin / WAN-IFRA:
The video games that are rewiring journalism
Discussion: @digitalmediaglo
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Discussion: The Wrap and Hartford Cityline
Susan Page / USA Today:
Legendary political reporter Jack Germond dies at age 85
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Canberra Times:
Public servants warned: watch what you say
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