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11:50 AM ET, September 15, 2013

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Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media  —  Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm.
Whitney Pastorek / Co.Exist:
Meet The Inspiring Woman Breaking News About Syria As She Reinvents Digital Journalism  —  Editor's Note  —  This story is part of Change Generation, our series on young entrepreneurs making a difference.  —  When News Deeply founder Lara Setrakian was posted in Dubai as a correspondent for ABC News …
Bloomberg:
Clark Hoyt Appointed Independent Senior Editor at Bloomberg LP  —  Appointments Build On Recommendations from Internal Review  —  NEW YORK — Bloomberg L.P. today announced that Clark Hoyt,  —  previously Special Adviser to the CEO, Editor-at-Large at  —  Bloomberg News and a former Public Editor of The New York Times,
Discussion: New York Post and Talking Biz News
Kira Goldenberg / Columbia Journalism Review:
Adding diversity back to digital media's history: Two journalists seek funding  —  Against the Riptide  —  Rather than simply criticize a report's omissions, two journalists plan to create their own complementary version … On September 9, three fellows at Harvard's Shorenstein Center …
Discussion: @jmfbrooks and @jmsummers
Jack Shafer:
Why journalists are like cops and firefighters  —  When some of our friends in academia read the top news about Syria on a website or in a newspaper, they do so through a lens ground by UCLA political scientist John Zaller.  In a 2003 paper (pdf), Zaller analyzed two modes of news production that journalists often employ.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
New York Times:
The Payday at Twitter Many Were Waiting For  —  SAN FRANCISCO — In June 2007, Evan Williams was looking for investors for a quirky Internet communications service called Twitter that he had co-founded.  —  He had already signed up a number of well-known Silicon Valley financiers …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Why TV will play a big role in Twitter's IPO  —  We don't know much about Twitter's planned IPO, thanks to the company's decision to file its papers with the SEC confidentially.  But we do know is that the timing is perfect.  —  The fall TV season is just about to begin.
Discussion: Forbes and The Switch
Jeane Macintosh / New York Post:
Tina Brown enlisted Newsweek and Daily Beast staffers to create web content for her non-profit  —  Brown blurred lines for ‘Beast’ staff  —  Former Daily Beast editrix Tina Brown alienated staffers by blurring the lines between her news operation and her pet non-profit, sources told The Post.
Discussion: @silvermanjacob
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: John McCain Will Attack Vladimir Putin in the Pages of Pravda  —  In a first-of-its kind arrangement, the editors of Russian newspaper Pravda have tentatively agreed to publish a column by Sen. John McCain that will attack the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Joshua Keating / Slate:   Has McCain Read Pravda Lately?
Erik Wemple:
Time magazine misses Snowden wave  —  Barton Gellman had a busy summer chasing down big national security stories stemming from the document trove of former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.  Late last month, Gellman and Greg Miller published a story on the government's $52.6 billion …
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
How Joota puts content at the heart of social networking  —  The platform lets users create Joota cards for particular pieces of content, where they can host conversations, and curate cards into followable groups  —  Just over a year ago, a new social network based in Malaysia launched in beta …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How much will Bezos and Buffett invest in their newspapers?  —  The newsonomics of Jeff Bezos' (and Warren Buffett's) “runway”  —  Let's consider Jeff Bezos' runway.  —  “Runway” was one of the benefits he recently said his purchase of The Washington Post would give the institution — “runway” as in financial room.
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:   Bauer Media to Stop Publishing Pro-Nazi Magazine Following Wrap Investigation
 
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