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1:10 PM 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
Jessica Meyers / Politico:
Jeff Bezos new to journalism — but not free speech issues
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.
Corporate Intelligence:
A Q&A With Max Mosley, the Man Who Wants to Censor the Internet … Max Mosley, a former head of the Formula One racing circuit, is now trying to redraw the lines of what counts as private on the Internet.  —  Mosley gained international notoriety five years ago after the defunct tabloid News …
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Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Google Says Mosley Suit Over Sex-Party Search Defies Free Speech
Discussion: Poynter and 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
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
BuzzFeed Aims for $100 Million in Sales 2014  —  Lots of chatter in medialand today about BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti's state-of-BuzzFeed memo, which is full of boast-worthy boasts: A ton of page views, a lot of employees, and a profit to boot.  —  One thing that Peretti didn't include in the memo …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Says The Site Is Profitable, With 85M Uniques And 300+ Employees
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Sun and Mirror journalists unite to show support for colleagues in court  —  More than 30 turn up at Westminster magistrates' court as nine face charges over alleged unlawful payments  —  More than 30 Sun and Daily Mirror journalists have put in a show of support at a central London court …
Discussion: @neilwallis1
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:   The Sun's stolen mobile ‘conspiracy’: They were just reporters doing their jobs
Erik Wemple:
Washington Post Magazine struggles with advertising relationship  —  The Washington Post Magazine's Aug. 11 Education Issue came out a bit on the thin side.  It contained a helpful cover story on how to emerge from college with a job.  One of the lessons: Lots of students who pursue a degree …
Discussion: Poynter, @smencimer and @huffpostmedia
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
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.
Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg:
Fortress to Create ‘New Media’ Through GateHouse Bankruptcy  —  Fortress Investment Group LLC (FIG:US) plans to create a newspaper and website company, New Media, through the bankruptcy of its GateHouse Media Inc. (GHSE:US) and the recently purchased assets of Newcastle Investment Corp. (NCT:US)
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
25% of people have posted anonymous comments, Pew finds  —  A quarter of all Internet users have posted anonymous comments, a Pew study about online anonymity says.  —  But when it comes to posting any material online, people “are more likely than not to attach their name or a recognizable screenname …
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.
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Britain to Examine Why BBC Severance Payments Exceeded Contract Terms  —  LONDON — Of the BBC and its money, mostly provided by ordinary Britons who pay a fee to watch television, there is no end to the argument, or the accounting.  The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee will hold …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Yahoo and Microsoft Media Exec Scott Moore Tapped as Cheezburger President and COO  —  Cheezburger, the Seattle-based humor site famous for LOLcat photos, has hired well-known former Yahoo and Microsoft exec Scott Moore as its new president and COO.  —  Moore will be “responsible …
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
Don Davis / Variety:
Mediaset Doing Just Fine Despite Berlusconi Verdict  —  Conviction on tax evasion charges puts Teflon Don on the defensive politically, but leaves his TV empire untouched  —  Silvio Berlusconi's conviction last month on tax fraud charges might have seemed like a closing chapter in his long and colorful career.
Sasha Chavkin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Déjà news  —  The FCC ignores local TV news' quiet consolidation strategy  —  A strange thing happens when you turn on the news in Hawaii.  Tune into the 10pm local newscast on KGMB, the Aloha State's CBS affiliate, then switch to its supposed NBC competitor, KHNL.  Then go back and forth again.
Economist:
Why are The Economist's writers anonymous?  —  The Economist explains itself  —  Why are The Economist's writers anonymous?  —  Sep 4th 2013, 23:50 by ????  —  Editor's note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843 …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
New season, new manager: Tom Krazit is GigaOM's new Executive Editor  —  If it wasn't obvious, Labor Day means the end of summer in the United States.  In Techlandia, however, it is start of a brand new season — a season of new product launches, rumors, speculation and vociferous debates.
 
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George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
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