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6:45 AM ET, August 29, 2013

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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 …
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.
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.
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: The Drum
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
The Express Tribune:
New York Times website restored after hacker attack  —  The popular New York Times website returned to service on Wednesday after hackers forced it down for nearly a day, with a group backing Syria's government claiming responsibility.  —  The website nytimes.com, one of the most influential sources …
Ted Johnson / Variety:
MPAA: Piracy Hub Hotfile Found Liable for Copyright Infringement  —  Cyberlocker Hotfile has been found liable for copyright infringement for housing movies and TV shows on its site, the MPAA said on Wednesday.  —  The decision from the U.S. District Court in Florida was the first such ruling …
Cameron Tung / The New Yorker Blog:
How Podcasts Conquered Comedy  —  When Marc Maron recorded his third comedy album, in the summer of 2008, he was a respected standup performer whose commercial prospects were so grim that he was bracing himself for the sputtering end of a twenty-five-year career.  In his bleakest moments, he mulled suicide.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Verizon Wireless again working on deal to break free of Vodafone, says WSJ  —  We haven't heard much about Verizon's rumored plans to buy out Vodafone's stake in the company for $100 billion for a few months now, but according to the Wall Street Journal those talks have been “rekindled.”
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
BuzzFeed has a Medium problem  —  BuzzFeed ought to thank anti-abortion group Personhood USA, which has exposed a serious flaw in the upstart publication's system.  With a BuzzFeedalicious listicle detailing why Planned Parenthood is the work of a promiscuous, condomless Satan …
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.
 
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