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8:35 AM ET, September 12, 2013

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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: IAC And Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown To Part Ways  —  A source with direct knowledge of the situation says IAC does not plan to renew Tina Brown's contract when it expires in January.  A decision has not yet been made on the future of The Daily Beast.  —  Jason Kempin / FilmMagic
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Tina Brown's Next Big Move  —  After five years at The Daily Beast, the irrepressible editor is leaving to build her own company.  David Freedlander reports.  —  The Daily Beast's editor-in-chief Tina Brown announced to the newsroom on Wednesday afternoon that she will be leaving the five-year-old online outfit.
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
No longer the talk of the town, Tina Brown bids farewell to Diller's Beast  —  Not even an operator of her legendary chutzpah could beat digital's destruction of her lifeblood: smart celebrity magazines  —  This may be the last time I ever write about Tina Brown.  —  Brown once dominated the New York media world.
Rem Rieder / USA Today:   Rieder: The lost magic of Tina Brown
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
BuzzFeed puts in new polices for “community” posts: an uneasy attempt at control  —  Political and activist groups are using BuzzFeed's self-publishing tools to promote controversial messages.  On Wednesday, the site put out new policies and guidelines to govern “community” submissions.
Guardian:
Mirror investigated over criminal liability for alleged phone hacking  —  Publisher of Daily and Sunday Mirror says Met is investigating if it is ‘criminally liable’ for alleged hacking by previous employees  —  The publisher of the Sunday Mirror has said it is under investigation …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror hacking claims - company made wrong decision two years ago  —  The announcement by Trinity Mirror that it is under police investigation over alleged phone hacking is unsurprising.  —  The publisher had the opportunity to hold an internal inquiry in 2011 amid allegations …
Agence France-Presse:
Al-Jazeera in legal action claiming Egypt harassment  —  Qatari-owned news channel Al-Jazeera has launched legal action against the Egyptian authorities, saying that its journalists have been detained without charge and attacked, its London-based lawyers announced Thursday.
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Geoffrey King / Mediashift:
Why the NSA Hack Compromises Al Jazeera Sources, U.S. Credibility  —  The German magazine Der Spiegel reported last week that the U.S. National Security Agency hacked into the internal communication system of Al Jazeera.  If the report is accurate, the targeted hacking of a news organization represents …
Discussion: New York Times and NYT Bits
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
NAA will stop releasing quarterly figures on ad revenues, which have consistently declined  —  The Newspaper Association of America has reported a decline in industry ad revenues every three months since a modest gain in the second quarter of 2006.  That adds up to six-and-a-half years …
Pandora:
Pandora Names Brian McAndrews Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman  —  Pandora (NYSE:P), today announced that the company's Board of Directors has appointed Brian McAndrews, formerly of Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft and aQuantive, to succeed Joe Kennedy as Chief Executive Officer …
Nick Turner / Bloomberg:
Newsweek's New Owners Name Reuters's Impoco as Editor-in-Chief  —  IBT Media, the online-news company that acquired Newsweek from IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) last month, named Thomson Reuters Corp.'s Jim Impoco as the magazine's editor-in-chief.  —  Impoco joins Newsweek after spending four years …
Discussion: PR Newswire and Politico
Derrik J. Lang / Associated Press:
Sony, Universal, Warner claim in lawsuit that SiriusXM didn't pay for royalties on old songs  —  LOS ANGELES — The music industry's largest record companies are suing SiriusXM Radio for royalties it says the satellite radio company didn't pay for recordings from before 1972.
Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times blogs:
MSN cutting number of contractors, increasing full-time employees  —  Microsoft is cutting the number of contractors who work at MSN as part of the large company-wide reorganization announced in July.  —  The company did not say how many contractor positions are being cut but did say that different vendors …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Hollywood Reporter
Press Gazette:
Former Sun deputy news editor Ben O'Driscoll charged under Operation Elveden  —  Former Sun deputy news editor Ben O'Driscoll has been charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.  He is alleged to have authorised payments of at least £5,000 to public officials …
Discussion: Telegraph, BBC News and The Times
Jeff Clabaugh / Baltimore Business Journal:
USA Today doubles newsstand price to $2  —  USA Today will raise its newsstand price from $1 to $2 per copy effective Sept. 30.  It is the first time USA Today has raised its newsstand price since 2008, when it went from 75 cents to $1.  “As our costs continued to rise …
Discussion: Gannett Blog
Marie Mawad / Bloomberg:
Vivendi Edges Closer to Split With Bollore as Deputy Chairman  —  Vivendi SA (VIV) moved closer to a long-discussed plan to split its telecommunications business from media assets, marking another sweeping reorganization of the former French utility.  —  Bowing to investor pressure to overhaul …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and DealBook
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Vietnam's Internet Censorship Bill Goes Into Effect  —  Internet freedom has gone from bad to worse in Vietnam as an online censorship law known as Decree 72 went into effect this month.  It bans bloggers and users of social media from quoting, gathering, or summarizing information from press organizations or government websites.
Discussion: @evacide
Guardian:
How Lord Patten fell from grace as BBC Trust chairman  —  This time last year he was pre-eminent, but the former Hong Kong governor now faces criticism over a string of scandals  —  With a CV that includes prominent roles with the Conservative party, Oxford University …
Discussion: Financial Times
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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Netflix, Amazon drive up price for Hollywood content, conferees told
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
ABC executive: second screen apps can be a distraction
Discussion: @lucas_shaw and @awallenstein
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Vladimir Putin Writes Intense New York Times Op-Ed — Calls Out American Exceptionalism
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Steve Burke: NBC ‘Significantly’ Lags in Profits, Needs More Ads, Higher Ratings
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Music service Piki.fm to shut down, founders to concentrate on revamped Turntable instead
Discussion: Valleywag and hypebot
 Earlier Picks: 
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
USA Today Sports goes Quickish with The Q
Discussion: Digiday and PR Newswire
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Roanoke Times eliminates 31 jobs, hopes to become ‘more efficient’
Discussion: The Roanoke Times
Colin Freeman / Telegraph:
Why prosecuting journalists for paying for stories is bad news for all of us
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Don Reisinger / CNET:
TiVo eyes the cloud with premiere of network PVR
Los Angeles Times:
Jeff Shell's promotion to run Universal Pictures surprises Hollywood
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter