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3:45 AM ET, September 18, 2013

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Nancy Gibbs / TIME:
New Editor Nancy Gibbs Maps Out What's Next For Time  —  Every new editor of TIME gets the chance to reimagine it, and there has never been a more exciting time to do that.  —  TIME now reaches an audience its founders could have only dreamed of: 50 million people around the world, in print, online, on mobile.
Discussion: @timecomms and @poniewozik
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Talking To Nancy Gibbs, Time Magazine's New Managing Editor  —  Time magazine has a new top editor: Nancy Gibbs, a 28-year veteran of the title.  She was named to the job of managing editor on Tuesday, succeeding Richard Stengel, who's leaving to join the State Department as under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nancy Gibbs to replace Stengel at ‘Time’
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
A Magazine for Farm-to-Table  —  HUDSON, N.Y. — When a fledgling magazine gets former President Bill Clinton to contribute an article, you would think he would be featured on the cover.  But the cover model for the current issue of the quarterly Modern Farmer is a sleepy-looking goat.
John Paul Titlow / Fast Company:
iTunes Radio: Smart For Apple, “Meh” For Users and Harmless For Pandora  —  On Wednesday, the Bubble Wrap officially comes off of iOS 7, and with it Tunes Radio.  For consumers, iTunes Radio might feel like little more than a Pandora clone with different guts and a polished interface.
Discussion: CNET
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Paul Sloan / CNET:
Major labels want iTunes radio to succeed; streaming is more lucrative than broadcasting
Discussion: VentureBeat and UPROXX
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Lines Up New Video Content  —  After Months in Limbo, Streaming Site to Add 144 Titles From the BBC  —  Hulu LLC is once again making significant investments in content, after months in limbo on the auction block.  —  The video-streaming website has struck a pact with BBC Worldwide North America …
Marie Beaudette / Wall Street Journal:
Penthouse Publisher FriendFinder Files for Bankruptcy Protection  —  Company Plans to Exit Chapter 11 by Jan. 31 as Privately Held Entity  —  Penthouse magazine publisher FriendFinder Networks Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under a deal that would see it return to the hands of its founders …
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge:
Google reportedly building in-house ad-tracking tool called ‘AdID’  —  Google is reportedly developing its own system of tracking our activity online.  According to a report from USA Today, Google is building an identification method for advertisers, called AdID, that would replace third-party HTTP cookies.
Randy Furst / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
KSTP anchor's driver's license data snooped 1,380 times, suit says  —  Jessica Miles, a KSTP-TV midday anchor and reporter, became the news herself on Monday.  Miles filed a federal lawsuit claiming that her private driver's license information was illegally searched about 1,380 times …
Discussion: The Blotter, Daily Mail and TVSpy
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
How the entertainment cycle brings out the best & worst journalism  —  First something crazy happens.  It could be DeAndre Jordan making a big dunk, or Miley Cyrus twerking.  On Sunday, it was the first Indian-American woman winning the Miss America pageant.  —  Second, the Internet reacts.
Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
The Patriotism of NPR and Its Sponsor Al Jazeera America  —  Al Jazeera America, the new cable news network owned by the Emirate of Qatar, has been running sponsorship ads on NPR for the last month as part of its launch campaign.  Some listeners are upset, accusing NPR of being unpatriotic or naïve.
Discussion: @jesseholcomb
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Twitter's IPO Will Reveal How Many Fake Or Inactive Users It Has — And It May Not Be Pretty  —  When Twitter files its S-1 papers for its IPO, it will answer a simple question that has been a bit of a mystery for observers and fans of the company: How many users are on Twitter?
Discussion: The Verge and Fast Company
Michael Rondon / Folio:
Johnson Publishing Gets Credit Infusion  —  Johnson Publishing has secured a line of credit as it continues to “reposition” itself in the marketplace.  The company behind popular African-American titles Ebony and Jet announced it has agreed to a revolving credit facility with Gibraltar Business Capital.
Discussion: Chicago Business
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Cable News Far More Hawkish On Syria Than Public: Pew  —  A Pew study on Monday attracted attention for its assertion that Al Jazeera America, which promised a different take on the world than its cable news counterparts, mostly mirrored their approach when it came to the debate over Syria.
 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Internet radio service Pandora prevails in license dispute
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Grabs a Microsoft Vet for Big Product Job
Discussion: @allthingsd
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
News Curation Platform Paper.li Raises Further $2 Million
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
As Amazon Preps Its Apple TV Killer, It Plays Nicely With Apple TV
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Time Out chief executive Aksel van der Wal to stand down
Discussion: Media Week
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Former Facebook editor launches Beacon, a platform that pays journalists
John Herman / BuzzFeed:
What Ever Happened To GOOD?  —  Remember GOOD magazine?
William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
Bonnie Fuller Starts to Trend
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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