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9:45 AM ET, September 5, 2013

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Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos to his future Washington Post journalists: Put the readers first  —  Jeffrey P. Bezos had a simple bit of advice for the staff of the newspaper he'll soon own: Put readers, not advertisers, first.  Don't write to impress each other.  And above all, “Don't be boring.”
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Bezos courts Washington Post editors, reporters  —  The Washington Post's new owner Jeffrey P. Bezos, long wary of journalists, held a series of meetings with the paper's editors and reporters Wednesday, saying that he is optimistic about the future of journalism and wants to create a …
Jessica Meyers / Politico:
Jeff Bezos new to journalism — but not free speech issues  —  A withering news industry has offered all manners of advice since Jeff Bezos bought the storied Washington paper known for Watergate revelations and a feisty refusal to hide the Pentagon Papers.  But a closer look …
Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:
The New York Post Gets a New Digital Look, And New Ad Units  —  An Improvement Over a Website That Seemed Stuck In the '90s  —  After years of operating a website which seemed to belong in the 1990s, the New York Post introduced a revamped, modern version today, and a set of new ad products to boot.
Janis L. Magin / Pacific Business News:
HuffPost Hawaii only adds to the world's distorted view of Paradise  —  Nearly 20 years ago, I was stuck in the middle seat of a five-seat row on a connecting flight from Chicago to Honolulu.  The woman seated to my left, who was from Iowa, asked whether I had been to Hawaii before, and I told her I had.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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Janis L. Magin / Pacific Business News:
Huffington, Omidyar launch HuffPost Hawaii website
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is Barrett Brown a journalist or an activist?  Regardless of the answer, his case is an outrage  —  By now, most people have probably heard of Edward Snowden, the former CIA contractor who leaked the NSA's surveillance documents, as well as Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, the Army private who leaked diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.
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Kevin Krause / Crime Blog:
Federal judge issues gag order on attorneys in criminal case of man tied to hackers
Discussion: Daily Dot
Eric Nicholson / Unfair Park:
Barrett Brown Agrees to Stop Talking to the Media
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Pressure Mounts on Yahoo's De Castro  —  Yahoo finally got its latest ad savior yesterday when the company officially announced that former AOL executive Ned Brody will become svp of Americas, reporting directly to chief operating officer Henrique De Castro.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Says The Site Is Profitable, With 85M Uniques And 300+ Employees  —  BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti published a memo to employees today that laid out some details about the site's growth, as well as its plans for the coming year.
Yahoo!:
Introducing Our New Logo!  —  We're excited to share the new Yahoo logo with you.  It will begin appearing across Yahoo properties globally tonight.  —  We wanted a logo that stayed true to our roots (whimsical, purple, with an exclamation point) yet embraced the evolution of our products.
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
NSA Media Coverage Skyrocketed In The Wake Of Snowden Leaks  —  Media coverage of the National Security Agency has exploded, according to a new report by Dow Jones.  The wire service crunched the numbers from its Factiva service, which archives news stories from thousands of outlets around the world …
Discussion: Mashable
Wall Street Journal:
Dish, Disney Gird for Showdown Over ESPN  —  Dish Network Corp. chairman Charlie Ergen has long railed against the high cost of sports on TV.  Now he has a chance to do something about it.  —  Dish's agreement to carry ESPN, the highest profile and most expensive of the national sports channels, expires at the end of September.
Discussion: The Desk
David Yanofsky / Quartz:
Pandora claims not to be particularly worried about the launch of iTunes Radio  —  Apple will add to a long list of online music services next week when it launches iTunes Radio.  While many companies would tremble at the thought of Apple planting a flag in their market, Pandora hasn't flinched …
Associated Press:
Second Journalist Killed in Philippines in a Week  —  Philippine police say a newspaper editor who wrote about illegal gambling has been killed, the second journalist slain in the country in a week.  —  Police chief D'Artagnan Katalbas of Calapan City in Mindoro Oriental province …
Digits:
Manjoo Joins Wall Street Journal as Technology Columnist  —  Farhad Manjoo, a leading and influential Silicon Valley voice, is joining the Wall Street Journal as a columnist writing about technology companies, issues, people, products and trends.  —  Manjoo, who currently writes for Slate …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Sun's stolen mobile ‘conspiracy’: They were just reporters doing their jobs  —  One of the unexpected consequences of the various police inquiries stemming from the News of the World phone-hacking scandal was the exposure of what the Met Police described as a “suspected conspiracy involving …
Discussion: Guardian
Andrew Leonard / Salon:
The Internet's next victim: Advertising  —  What the story of AdBlock Plus tells us: The online economy is broken, and won't be easy to fix  —  “Everyone agrees that advertising on the Internet is broken,” says Till Faida, CEO of Adblock Plus, creator of by far the most popular ad-blocking software on the Web.
Discussion: AdAge, @salon and @ecitydave
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sony 4K TV Internet Video Service Will Bump Into Bandwidth Caps  —  Want to watch “Breaking Bad” in glorious Ultra HD, which offers four times the resolution of typical high-def?  Today, getting the bleeding edge in home-video entertainment requires a pricier Sony 4K TV and media player …
Adrienne LaFrance / Slate:
How Futurama's 31st-Century Technology Illustrated Today's Changing Media Landscape  —  Good news, everyone!  Journalism is still going to be around 1,000 years from now.  —  It will be, at least, if the next millennium is anything like the world imagined by Futurama …
Michelle Clancy / Rapid TV News:
ITV opens ITV Studios US  —  UK broadcaster ITV has appointed Paul Buccieri to lead a new ITV Studios US group.  —  The formation of the stateside group, which will house ITV Studios America, comes after the acquisition of US producers Thinkfactory Media, High Noon Entertainment and Gurney Productions.
Joel Simon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Identity crisis  —  Why journalists should drop the push for special protection and just defend freedom of expression  —  Are you a journalist?  A Turkish police officer fires tear gas during an anti-government rally near Taksim Square in Istanbul in July.
Discussion: @freedomofpress and @jcstearns
Philippe Massonnet / AFP Blogs:
When a “kill” increases life expectancy  —  The Internet has been abuzz, at least in France, ever since AFP transmitted this photo of French President Francois Hollande to clients on Tuesday, then quickly issued a “Mandatory Kill” order retracting it because it was deemed to be gratuitously unflattering to the president.
 
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