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7:50 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: @betheleri, @timecomms and @poniewozik
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nancy Gibbs to replace Stengel at ‘Time’
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Modern Farmer Magazine Capitalizes on a Trend  —  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.
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 Next Web and The Verge
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 …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Sun's former deputy news editor in court on illegal payments charges  —  Ben O'Driscoll charged with allegedly approving payments to police and officials at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital  —  The Sun's former deputy news editor, Ben O'Driscoll, has appeared in court charged …
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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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
The best magazine on the Internet?  —  If “slow media” needs a poster child, it can find one in Aeon Magazine, an online publication about culture and ideas that marks its first birthday tomorrow.  In the space of a year, the magazine, started by a London-based Australian couple …
Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:
Leveson has been ‘disastrous’ says Guardian legal chief  —  The Guardian's director of editorial legal services Gill Phillips has said the outcome of Leveson Inquiry has been “disastrous”.  —  Speaking at the Protecting the Media conference in the City of London, Phillips said the wrangling …
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
YouTube Will Enable Offline Viewing On Its Mobile Apps  —  YouTube has announced that it will launch a new feature on its mobile apps enabling viewers to watch videos even when they are offline.  The new update will be available in November.  —  The feature will let viewers add videos …
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.
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 …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Internet radio service Pandora prevails in license dispute  —  (Reuters) - Pandora Media Inc has won a Manhattan federal court decision rejecting efforts by some music publishers to narrow a license that enables the largest U.S. Internet radio service to play their music.
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
 
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Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
The Patriotism of NPR and Its Sponsor Al Jazeera America
Discussion: @jesseholcomb
David Cohn / Circa Blog:
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Michael Rondon / Folio:
Johnson Publishing Gets Credit Infusion
Discussion: Chicago Business
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Grabs a Microsoft Vet for Big Product Job
Discussion: @allthingsd
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
As Amazon Preps Its Apple TV Killer, It Plays Nicely With Apple TV
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?