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9:45 AM ET, September 12, 2013

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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
IAC Said to Be Considering Daily Beast Sale After Brown's Exit  —  IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) Chairman Barry Diller is considering selling the Daily Beast following the departure of Tina Brown, who helped start the news website in 2008, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Discussion: @erikwemple
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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
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.
Discussion: @moorehn
Rem Rieder / USA Today:   Rieder: The lost magic of Tina Brown
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 …
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
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Netflix, Amazon drive up price for Hollywood content, conferees told  —  The effects of Netflix and Amazon are felt throughout the market, Shawn Strickland, chief executive of Redbox Instant by Verizon, said at the Broadcasting & Cable's NextTV Summit.  (Netflix)
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's second grilling by parliamentary committee postponed  —  News Corp lawyers and attorney general advise that questions might prejudice criminal cases  —  Plans to bring Rupert Murdoch before the culture, media and sport committee for a second grilling about the activities …
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 …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
ABC executive: second screen apps can be a distraction  —  Second-screen apps used to be all the rage with TV executives just a few years ago, but Disney's Digital EVP Albert Cheng's network is moving away from the idea to complement shows with second screen experiences.
Discussion: @lucas_shaw and @awallenstein
George Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
U.K.'s Channel 5 Committed to U.S. Dramas, Owner Says  —  Media mogul Richard Desmond also lauds Rupert Murdoch and says Britain's public service broadcasters should be allowed to charge pay TV operators carriage fees.  —  CAMBRIDGE, England - Richard Desmond, the owner of Britain's Channel 5 …
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
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: Hollywood Reporter and FishbowlNY
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 …
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.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
How DishWorld became Dish's online TV testbed  —  Thought Intel and Sony were the first ones to try their hands at an internet-based TV subscription service?  Think again: Dish has been offering subscription packages of live TV streams, without the need for any satellite dish, for years.
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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Jeff Clabaugh / Baltimore Business Journal:
USA Today doubles newsstand price to $2
Discussion: Gannett Blog
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Vietnam's Internet Censorship Bill Goes Into Effect
Discussion: @evacide
Press Gazette:
Former Sun deputy news editor Ben O'Driscoll charged under Operation Elveden
Discussion: Telegraph, The Times and BBC News
Marie Mawad / Bloomberg:
Vivendi Edges Closer to Split With Bollore as Deputy Chairman
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Vladimir Putin Writes Intense New York Times Op-Ed — Calls Out American Exceptionalism
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
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Discussion: Valleywag and hypebot
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Roanoke Times eliminates 31 jobs, hopes to become ‘more efficient’
Discussion: The Roanoke Times
Don Reisinger / CNET:
TiVo eyes the cloud with premiere of network PVR