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6:05 AM ET, September 16, 2013

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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Rdio to announce ad-supported free tier in partnership with radio operator Cumulus  —  Online Music Service Rdio in Deal With Cumulus  —  As radio broadcasters go digital and online music services try to stand out in a crowded market, both are finding ways to scratch each other's backs.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.”
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).
Whitney Pastorek / Co.Exist:
Meet The Inspiring Woman Breaking News About Syria As She Reinvents Digital Journalism  —  When News Deeply founder Lara Setrakian was posted in Dubai as a correspondent for ABC News, she saw pundit Thomas Friedman give his popular speech presenting a five-step plan for success in the globalized “world-is-flat” economy.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Beastie Boys Can't Escape 'Paul's Boutique' Sampling Lawsuit  —  But here's why Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz and the late Adam Yauch came out ahead anyway in a judge's ruling this week.  —  A New York judge won't let the Beastie Boys off the hook in an illegal sampling lawsuit brought by TufAmerica …
Discussion: Plagiarism Today
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
What Does ‘Mobile-First’ Mean to Publishers?  —  Earlier this week, USA Today unveiled a new mobile content platform for its NFL site “The Q.”  Men's lifestyle recommendation service Thrillist revamped its own app — and overall strategy — to focus more on mobile and less on email.
Discussion: @mjenkins, @corybe and @digiday
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: @brendannyhan and @jayrosen_nyu
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
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
Discussion: Forbes and The Switch
 
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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:
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Discussion: New York Post and Talking Biz News
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Alternative Media Won?—Remembering The Late Boston Phoenix
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Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

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