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6:50 PM ET, September 16, 2013

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Desiree Everts DeNunzio / CNET:
Washington Post drops paywall in wake of DC shooting  —  The Washington Post is suspending its pay gate in an effort to get information out to all readers.  —  The Washington Post has dropped its paywall for readers seeking more information about the shootings Monday morning in the Washington Navy Yard …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
NBC, CBS Remind Us You Don't Have to Be on Reddit or Twitter to Misidentify a Mass Killer  —  Lest we think that Redditors, tweeters, and bloggers have a monopoly on rushing to judgment when tragedies are unfolding, a pair of network news stations today provided a reminder that premature reports are as old as the news itself.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
The media's mistakes in covering Navy Yard shooting  —  Breaking news is never pretty — anyone who hungers for facts and speed during a story as fluid as Monday's shootings in Washington, D.C., is asking for a lot.  Still, there were some notable screwups today, like...
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter's Third Act: A New Design to Court the Mainstream  —  Twitter has lots of users.  It wants a lot more.  —  That is, in part, why it is planning a massive overhaul of its mobile apps, designed to make the service more appealing to mainstream users.
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Guardian Story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not ‘Surprising’ Enough to Cover  —  Many Times readers have been writing to me for several days about a story The Guardian broke last week, describing how the United States routinely shares with Israel intelligence information that the National Security Agency gathers on American citizens.
Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:
Bryan Goldberg's adventures in women's publishing.  —  A young man's adventures in women's publishing.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
FTC to take closer look at “native advertising” trend  —  So-called “native advertising” has caused a lot of buzz among publishers who hope it will be more effective than old-fashioned banner ads.  It's also attracting the attention of regulators.  —  Over the last year …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Storytelling Ads May Be Journalism's New Peril
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Politico Plans for New York Are Drawing Some Doubt  —  Until last week, Capital New York was an obscure Web publication that covered New York City culture and politics with a handful of staff members.  It produced long, thoughtful pieces on topics like the Metropolitan Opera and the finances …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy  —  Video streaming giant Netflix sees itself as one of the most prominent competitors to the many pirate sites that offer video content without owners' permission.  —  However, these pirate sites also offer Netflix valuable information …
Brian Anthony Hernandez / Mashable:
Netflix Wins Two Emmys for ‘House of Cards’ Over Major TV Dramas  —  The first barrage of winged-woman Emmy statuettes were handed out at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy on Sunday, and Netflix won the night's first one for House of Cards in the Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series category
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
CNN Wins First Primetime Emmys with ‘Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown’
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Video isn't breaking the internet: The industry giants are  —  The web can't handle video, goes the common refrain.  For example, Comcast estimates that if people wanted to watch the television content they watch on its pay TV service using the web, each home would consume 648 gigabytes per month.
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Pandora selling 10M in common stock, could raise $230.8M  —  Pandora Media is selling 10 million shares of common stock, which could net it about $230.8 million at $23.99 per share, according to an SEC filing released today.  —  In the filing, Pandora said it plans to use the money from the stock sale for …
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Anya Kamenetz / Fast Company:
Upworthy is doubling its staff after $8 million Series A funding round  —  Upworthy, a content aggregator focused on emotionally hard-hitting “stuff that matters,” has announced an $8 million Series A funding round led by Spark Capital (early investors in Tumblr and Twitter) …
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Eclipsed by rivals, Rhapsody reduces staff and ousts key managers  —  Rhapsody's managers were right in predicting more than a decade ago that consumers would one day flock to subscription music services.  The only problem is, Rhapsody isn't one of the services they're choosing.
Discussion: @sandonet
 
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Taps New Social-Media Tool To Give Viewers Chance To Speak
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Sun online's disastrous paywall start as traffic plunges by 62%
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
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