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4:40 PM ET, September 13, 2013

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
NPR Names Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Interim CEO  —  Paul G. Haaga, Jr. will be the President & CEO of National Public Radio in an interim capacity, the organization announced today.  Mr. Haaga will fill the post left by Gary Knell, who announced last month that he was leaving to head up the National Geographic Society.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NPR to offer employee buyouts  —  In an effort to stave off a budding financial crisis, NPR will offer buyouts to its employees, with a goal of reducing its staff by about 10 percent, one of the largest reductions in the organization's history, it said Friday.
Journalism.co.uk:
Sun on Sunday gets a ‘refresh’ and new editor  —  Sun editors also announce a ‘multimillion pound investment’ in The Sun, which six weeks ago launched a £2-a-week paywall  — Read more  —  Other top stories  —  Also on Journalism.co.uk...
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Matt Buchanan / The New Yorker Blog:
The Twitter of Tomorrow  —  This afternoon, Twitter officially, and secretly, filed documents to the S.E.C. in advance of its I.P.O. The company is worth billions upon billions of dollars, and its founders will become extremely rich sometime in the next year.
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AllThingsD:
Does Twitter Have a Growth Problem?  —  Is Twitter growing fast enough?  —  This seems like an odd question to ask, since the company has just told the world that it's getting ready to go public.  —  But there are signs that the company isn't adding users at the pace it had expected.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Bauer Media stops publishing magazine accused of being pro-Nazi  —  Bauer Media is to cease publication of the controversial magazine, Der Landser, which has been accused of honouring pro-Nazi troops who fought in the second world war.  —  The Hamburg-based company made the announcement …
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:   TheWrap first exposed one of the biggest publishing companies in the world's ties to Nazi …
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Aereo Argues Courts Should Ignore Rival FilmOn X's Legal Setbacks  —  FilmOn X, which offers digital streams of broadcast signals, lost in court again on Thursday, with more signs that a string of legal defeats may affect not just its business but that of its rival, Aereo.
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Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Aereo claims DC injunction doesn't affect it
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Dave Winer:
The govt should stay out of journalism  —  The US government is hoping to legislate who is and isn't a journalist.  This is serious stuff.  They aren't deciding who can and can't get a Pulitzer Prize, instead they're deciding who goes to jail for publishing leaks “without authorization.”
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Tina Brown to Write Memoir  —  Tina Brown, the veteran editor who announced on Wednesday that she is departing The Daily Beast and magazine journalism, has struck a deal to write a memoir, she said in an interview on Thursday.  —  The book, titled “Media Beast,” will chronicle her career in magazines …
Elspeth Reeve / The Atlantic Wire:
Rick Stengel Is at Least the 15th Journalist to Move to the Obama Administration  —  Time managing editor Rick Stengel (pictured above) is leaving journalism to go work for the State Department, making him at least the 15th reporter to go to work for the Obama administration.
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Harper's Will Never Be Free  —  Harper's Magazine will never give in to the free-content Internet craze.  —  The October issue opens with a three page letter (Harper's is not known for brevity) from president and publisher John R. MacArthur reaffirming the venerable magazine's stance against the new-in-1999 model of online journalism.
Discussion: @mathewi
Lewis Lazare / Chicago Business Journal:
Chicago Sun-Times taps Richard Roeper as movie columnist  —  Richard Roeper is the new movie man at the Chicago Sun-Times.  —  Roeper is shifting from general interest columnist at the paper to a new position as movie columnist, writing about three or four movies a week.
Daniel Miller / Los Angeles Times:
MGM authorizes $75-million stock repurchase program  —  MGM Holdings Inc., the parent of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., has authorized a stock repurchase plan.  (MGM)  —  MGM Holdings Inc., the parent of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., has authorized a $75-million stock repurchase plan designed to protect the company from a hostile takeover.
 
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
After search led by Tunku Varadarajan, upstart media company IBT decides on veteran Jim Impoco for the next Newsweek
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Univision's Cesar Conde leaves for big role at rival NBCUniversal
Discussion: The Wrap
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
BBC hires Whitehall veteran PR to repair its tarnished image
Discussion: @mrsteerpike
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Belo Investors to Vote Against Gannett
Discussion: MoneyBeat, @keachhagey and Gannett Blog
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Number of tracks illegally downloaded in UK falls by a third
Discussion: NME
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Parents Television Council: “Sons of Anarchy” premiere shows need for a la carte cable
Discussion: The Wrap and Deadline.com
William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
Maxim Magazine Sold, With Plans to Create TV Channel
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Madison Square Garden Enlists JPMorgan to Help Sell Fuse