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9:40 AM ET, September 16, 2013

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David Carr / New York Times:
Storytelling Ads May Be Journalism's New Peril  —  When the guy who ruined the Internet with banner ads tells you that a new kind of advertising might destroy journalism, it tends to get your attention.  —  That's not entirely fair.  Joe McCambley, founder of The Wonderfactory …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
CNN Wins First Primetime Emmys with ‘Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown’  —  CNN's “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown” took home two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards last night.  This is the first time CNN has been awarded a primetime Emmy.  (The network has won several News & Documentary Emmy awards).
Discussion: Deadline.com and CNN
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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
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 …
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) …
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.
Brian Patrick Eha / Entrepreneur:
New York Times to Invest in Startups Through Its Own Incubator  —  The New York Times Co. is going to invest in early-stage media startups through its incubator, timeSpace.  —  An experimental program within the newspaper company, timeSpace provided for three startups to spend …
Marie Gilot / Knight Foundation:
More than 41,000 sign up for Northwestern U's media MOOC  —  Understanding Media by Understanding Google with Owen R. Youngman on YouTube  —  More than 41,000 people have signed up for Northwestern University's first media Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
Carlo Rotella / New York Times:
Educators are cautious of reliance on tech as schools adopt tablets from News Corp's Amplify  —  No Child Left Untableted  —  Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I don't want this thing to take over my classroom.”
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian launches style magazine The Fashion  —  First issue of biannual title out on Saturday with Guardian in London, south-east and ‘selected retailers’ in England and Wales  —  Guardian News & Media is to launch a style magazine called The Fashion, which will be produced by writers from the Observer and Guardian newspapers.
Discussion: Press Gazette, The Drum and Guardian
 
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Sun online's disastrous paywall start as traffic plunges by 62%
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Inks Firehose Deal With DataSift To Tumble Further Into The World Of Big Media Advertising
Discussion: Softpedia News, CIOL and The Next Web
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
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Jeane Macintosh / New York Post:
Tina Brown enlisted Newsweek and Daily Beast staffers to create web content for her non-profit
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Bloomberg:
Clark Hoyt Appointed Independent Senior Editor at Bloomberg LP
Discussion: New York Post and Talking Biz News
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How much will Bezos and Buffett invest in their newspapers?
Discussion: Forbes and @rajunarisetti
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