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9:00 AM ET, August 29, 2013

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Automattic takes on Storify with WordPress Media Explorer for curating tweets and YouTube videos  —  Automattic has released a Media Explorer tool for the WordPress blogging platform that lets authors curate trending content from Twitter and YouTube all without needing to leave their post.
Jane Darby Menton / Yale Daily News:
Woodward to teach ‘Journalism’  —  In the spring, aspiring Yale journalists will have the opportunity to learn from one of the most famous names in the field, Bob Woodward '65.  —  Woodward will teach the spring section of “Journalism,” an intensive seminar that the English Department offers each spring and fall.
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Press+ Launches a Service to Make Online Video Profitable (Exclusive)  —  You can start by watching the Microsoft anti-trust trial, but shows from major entertainment companies could be next  —  Press+, which provides paywalls for the websites of several top newspaper chains …
NPR:
Area Man Realizes He's Been Reading Fake News For 25 Years  —  Before Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert became establishments in news satire, there was The Onion.  Thursday, “America's Finest News Source” turns 25.  —  Two college students founded the fake news organization …
Discussion: @aparnamuk and Rosie Gray
Stijn Debrouwere / stdout.be:
Cargo cult analytics  —  This is a talk I gave at a Hacks/Hackers meetup in Berlin on August 21, 2013.  —  Thanks for inviting me to speak at this Hacks/Hackers meetup.  My name is Stijn Debrouwere.  I'm a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow and I'm loosely affiliated with the Guardian's data science team in London.
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Instapaper gets complete redesign after Betaworks purchase, new mobile apps soon  —  Instapaper is in the midsts of an overhaul.  After being purchased by Betaworks this past April, the first major changes to the read-it-later service since creator Marco Arment gave up control of the app are here.
David Kravets / Wired:
White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry Anti-Piracy Group  —  Victoria Espinel, the nation's copyright czar until two weeks ago, has been named president of an anti-piracy trade group that lobbies governments on behalf of the software industry.  —  Espinel resigned earlier this month …
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Sky+ HD boxes that include WiFi as standard and up to 2TB of storage are now available  —  BSkyB, the UK broadcaster better known simply as Sky, has finally launched its pair of new PVR units for its TV subscribers.  —  The new Sky+ HD boxes, one of which includes 2TB of on-board storage …
Guardian:
Sun on Sunday overhaul expected in September  —  Tabloid thought to relaunch after News UK's recruitment of 16 new staff and editor's pledge to take paper ‘to greater heights’  —  The Sun on Sunday is expected to unveil a radical overhaul in September, 19 months after Rupert Murdoch launched …
Discussion: @benfenton and The Drum
Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
TiVo Posts $268.9 Million Profit Boosted by Settlements  —  TiVo Inc. (TIVO), the digital-video recorder pioneer, reported a second-quarter profit of $268.9 million, boosted by legal settlements, and forecast earnings to continue through this year and in fiscal 2015.
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr  —  Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products.  —  After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
What the ESPN/Frontline breakup teaches us about investigative reporting  —  As we put the pieces together in this week's ESPN/Frontline breakup, we've learned something about investigative journalism: it's incredibly difficult for a news organization to hold its own partners accountable.
Discussion: @poynter and @kellymcb
 
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