Mediagazer: Number of tracks illegally downloaded in UK falls by a third (Josh Halliday/Guardian)

6:25 AM ET, September 13, 2013

Top News:

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.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, blog.twitter.com, @nxthompson, PandoDaily, @piercedavid, CNET, Mashable and Marketing Pilgrim

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Twitter makes IPO plans official: files confidential S-1, but expected value is about $14B — Twitter has announced its long-awaited IPO in, what else, a tweet that came after market closed on Thursday: … Twitter's note that this is a confidential filing means the company's annual revenue is less than $1 billion.

Ben Popper / The Verge:
Twitter files for “confidential” IPO, suggesting its annual revenue is less than $1B

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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:

Media shield act moves on to the full Senate — A Senate panel on Thursday backed legislation that would offer protections to a broad variety of journalists who do not want to divulge their confidential sources of information. — The key point of debate over the bill …

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Shield Law Moves Forward, Defines Journalism So That It Leaves Out Wikileaks & Random Bloggers — There have been debates on a setting up a special journalist shield law for many years, and every time it comes up it leads to something problematic, as various supporters suddenly want to narrowly define …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Shield law broadens definition of ‘journalist’

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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 …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Daily Beast's fate to be decided by ‘first week in October’

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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
IAC Said to Be Considering Daily Beast Sale After Brown's Exit

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Story Behind the Putin Op-Ed Article in The Times — A Times reader, Lawrence DeVine, has a few questions about The Times's publication of an Op-Ed article in Thursday's paper by Vladimir V. Putin, the president of Russia. He asks: “Did he call up the editorial page editor and say …

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
The Collected Op-Eds of Vladimir Putin

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Capital New York:

Rick Stengel to leave ‘Time’ for U.S. State Department — Richard Stengel, the top editor of Time magazine for the past seven years, is planning to step down as managing editor for a new job at the U.S. Department of State, sources familiar with the situation tell Capital New York and POLITICO.

Discussion: Reuters, New York Times, @aburnspolitico, @mlcalderone, @mikenizza, @thestalwart, @ethanklapper, The Huffington Post, AdAge and New York Magazine

Salt Lake Tribune:

Trib changes leadership, reduces staff by nearly 20 percent — Salt Lake Tribune Editor Nancy Conway, a passionate advocate for open records and government accountability, announced Thursday to the newsroom staff that Publisher William Dean Singleton is stepping down and that she and Editorial …

Discussion: @gwarchol, @davemontero, @jjsportsbeat, @hunterschwarz and @kylegoon

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Number of tracks illegally downloaded in UK falls by a third — Ofcom says number of pirated tracks, from artists such as Adele and One Direction, fell to 199m from 301m in the past year — The number of pirated music tracks in the UK has fallen by a third to 199m in the past year, according to research published by Ofcom.

Discussion: NME

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Verified Twitter users are getting new ways to better manage their Connect feed — Twitter is rolling out a new feature for verified users that it hopes will help improve the experience of reading through who contacts you publicly through the service. As part of the move …

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Josh Dickey / The Wrap:

Judge Rejects FilmOn X's Plea to Keep Rebroadcasting Local TV During Appeal — The Washington district court judge who shut down FilmOn X's ability to transmit local TV stations online has rejected its emergency petition to keep doing business while they appeal.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Variety

Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:

Parents Television Council: “Sons of Anarchy” premiere shows need for a la carte cable — 'Sons of Anarchy's' School Shooting Draws Ire of Parents Television Council — The conservative watchdog group used the episode, which also featured rape scenes, as an opportunity to push for a la carte networks.

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Reuters:

At Sina Weibo's censorship hub, China's Little Brothers cleanse online chatter — (Reuters) - In a modern office building on the outskirts of the Chinese city of Tianjin, rows of censors stare at computer screens. Their mission: delete any post on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, deemed offensive or politically unacceptable.

Discussion: The Verge, @greatfirechina, @bbccollege, @emilydparker and The Next Web

William Launder / Wall Street Journal:

Maxim Magazine Sold, With Plans to Create TV Channel — Calvin Darden Buys Publication, Aims to Create Media Franchise — The owners of Maxim Magazine have agreed to sell the men's magazine to a media group led by Calvin Darden, in a deal aimed at expanding the men's lifestyle brand to cable television and to music production.

Discussion: AdAge

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

How NowThis News handles multi-platform corrections — Not long after the Newtown shootings last December, Ed O'Keefe was in the NowThis News newsroom when a Facebook profile some claimed to be the shooter's circulated on social media and via some news organizations.

Discussion: @reutersagency, @craigsilverman and @julie_eckert

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Madison Square Garden Enlists JPMorgan to Help Sell Fuse — Madison Square Garden Co. (MSG), the sports and entertainment company that owns the namesake arena in Manhattan, hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. to explore a sale of its music-TV channel Fuse. — “We have been approached …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Reporter Barton Gellman Explains Why It's Extremely Unlikely The Russians Or Chinese Have Snowden's Documents — Wednesday's Fresh Air on NPR was devoted entirely to a wonderful interview with Barton Gellman, one of the three reporters (along with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald) …

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Time Inc.'s Executive Suite Was Where ‘Ideas Go To Die,’ Says CEO Joe Ripp — New Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp told roughly 300 employees at a town hall-style meeting Wednesday that the company's executive suite has been a place “where ideas go to die,” according to staffers who were present.

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Alerts regains RSS delivery option it lost after Google Reader's demise — Google has quietly added back a Feed delivery option to its Google Alerts service. The return of the feature means you can once again receive alerts for Web search results via RSS, rather than just email.

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