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3:25 AM ET, September 11, 2013

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Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits:
Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encryption Standards  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The federal agency charged with recommending cybersecurity standards said Tuesday that it would reopen the public vetting process for an encryption standard, after reports that the National Security Agency …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
University apologizes for censoring crypto prof over anti-NSA post
Jack Shafer:
Kurtz moves from CNN to Fox with the same old song  —  After “Reliable Sources” host Howard Kurtz parted ways with CNN in June and announced the move of his Sunday morning TV act to Fox News Channel, he had a chance to retool the media-news-and-criticism formula he purveyed on the network for 15 years.
Discussion: @pkafka and @jackshafer
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Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
‘MediaBuzz’ Debut Wins in Total Viewers, But ‘Reliable Sources’ Tops in the Demo
Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:
Controversial CTO Pax Dickinson Is Out at Business Insider  —  Business Insider came under fire Monday after the world was alerted to the sexist, misogynistic, homophobic and classist Twitter feed of its chief-technology officer Pax Dickinson.  The two sides have parted ways, though there's some debate over the semantics.
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Statement From Business Insider
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Apple TV a no-show, in any respect, at iPhone event  —  Despite initial hopes for new hardware, and then tempered hopes for a software update, Apple continues to tread water on its set-top box.  —  A lot of big names showed up at Apple's event Tuesday — Al Gore, Marissa Mayer, Elvis Costello …
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Ann Arbor News, or There and Back Again: Why the news world's first print edition of a website is coming to a close  —  Back in 2009, the news-about-news world was focused on Ann Arbor — and not because Michigan football was any good.  That was when The Ann Arbor News …
Wall Street Journal:
DNI documents: NSA phone record searches between 2006 and 2009 violated privacy protections  —  NSA Violated Privacy Protections, Officials Say  —  Revelation Calls Into Question Security of Phone-Record Database  —  WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's searches …
Phyllis Furman / NY Daily News:
Daily News launches startup incubator, Innovation Lab  —  Daily News' Innovation Lab will nurture cutting-edge media technology startups  —  Innovation starts at the Daily News.  The News on Monday announced the launch of the Innovation Lab, a program that will provide select early-stage startup businesses …
Reuters:
German publisher G+J to spend millions on digital expansion  —  FRANKFURT, Sept 10 (Reuters) - German publisher Gruner+Jahr (G+J) is to invest several hundred million euros in an online expansion, following other media groups in seeking fresh revenue streams as newspapers and magazines decline.
Discussion: Financial Times
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Stock Hits All-Time High  —  At $306-a-share, the streaming service is up more than 219 percent in 2013.  —  Netflix's stock has surpassed $306-a-share, representing an all-time-high for the streaming service.  —  In early day trading, the stock is up more than 4 percent …
Discussion: Business Insider and Bloomberg
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Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:
Netflix Added to Virgin Media U.K. TV in Industry First
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Retrans Fight Stars in STELA Hearing  —  Broadcasters, MVPD's debate need for retrans reform  —  There may ultimately be a clean reathorization of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA)—or not—but the House Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on that legislation was anything but streamline.
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
‘PBS NewsHour Weekend’ Host Hari Sreenivasan On Diversity: 'We're More Sensitive To The Fact That The Country Is Changing' (VIDEO)  —  “PBS NewsHour” is making all kinds of waves these days—first, with the announcement that Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are going to be the show's main anchors …
Thomas Rid / Slate:
The Rest of the Snowden Files Should Be Destroyed  —  The leaks have done a lot of good.  But a lot more damage could be done.  —  Privacy is fundamental in an open democracy.  Without privacy, there is no democracy.  Security is also fundamental.  Without security, there is no democracy, either.
Asawin Suebsaeng / Mother Jones:
Vogue's Puff Piece on The Assads Is Back Online—For Now  —  Vogue has run a large number of profiles on famous and successful women.  For their most recent September issue, the fashion magazine profiled Texas state senator Wendy Davis, photographed in her “Carolina Herrera dress and Reed Krakoff pumps.”
Discussion: @motherjones and @motherjones
Min-Jeong Lee / Digits:
Samsung Sets Sights on TV Apps  —  Samsung Electronics Co. has been beefing up its software capabilities for its smartphones to compete with Apple Inc. Now, it's also setting its sights on apps for its Internet-connected TVs.  —  At the IFA trade show in Berlin last week …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Outbrain plans IPO valued at $1 billion for 2014 - reports  —  Outbrain, the biggest of the content engines that help publishers serve suggested stories and ads, will reportedly seek $200 million from Wall Street in 2014.  —  Outbrain, a startup that helps publishers like CNN and USA Today serve ads …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Amidst IPO Rumors, Outbrain Hires Its First CFO, Jeff Davison
Discussion: MarketWatch
 
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
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Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post TV Host Leaves
Jim Romenesko:
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Discussion: @niemanlab
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