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10:10 AM ET, September 23, 2013

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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Update to Gawker's Kinja platform allows readers to summarize and discuss anything on the web  —  Disruptions: Gawker Wants to Encourage More Voices Online, but With Less Yelling  —  There are corners of the Internet that contain some of the most slimy and vitriolic stuff you could imagine …
Discussion: AdExchanger and @ksablan
Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Pitches Itself to TV Networks  —  Ahead of IPO, Social-Media Site Rolls Out Wider Range of Ad Products  —  Ahead of its stock market debut, Twitter Inc. is hoping for a breakout role on TV this fall: moneymaker.  —  As television networks crank up their marketing machines to promote …
Discussion: @mathewi and Marketing Land
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Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:
A look at Mass Relevance, a startup TV networks rely on to surface pithy tweets
David Carr / New York Times:
Wintour's Reign Extends Beyond Vogue  —  Anna Wintour created a bit of an international incident in 2010, when she cut short her visit to Milan Fashion Week.  Designers scrambled, fashion journalists pondered its deeper meaning and local officials took grave offense.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Flipboard Raises $50 Million More on $800 Million Valuation  —  According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard has raised $50 million in new funding, in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs.  —  The new funding puts the valuation of the Silicon Valley startup …
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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Random House launches Flipboard magazines for Margaret Atwood and George R.R. Martin
Discussion: Digital Book World
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
The unfortunate fact is that online journalism can't survive without a wealthy benefactor or cat GIFs  —  It's always been true to some extent, but it is even more true now — serious online journalism requires something else to subsidize it, whether it's a rich benefactor or cat GIFs and slideshows.
Discussion: @margokingston1
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
In online TV first, Netflix wins Emmy for drama directing  —  David Fincher wins an Emmy for directing Netflix's “House of Cards,” and the Internet TV provider breaks ground — again — for online only programming.  —  Netflix won its first Emmy award — the kind doled out at the flashy …
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Jacob Harris / Source:
The Times Regrets the Programmer Error  —  Jake Harris opens a serious barrel of monkeys about when and how to issue corrections for data journalism  —  In this case study  —  It hasn't happened yet, but there will be a day when the New York Times or another major newspaper will run …
Discussion: @craigsilverman and @dangillmor
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
The Pageview's Days Are Numbered  —  We've all clicked on an enticing link only to find that it leads to a 100-page slide show.  So we half-heartedly click through a couple of slides before closing the tab in frustration.  —  But the publisher doesn't mind.  It got your pageview.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fred Ryan to step down at POLITICO, ACC  —  Frederick J. Ryan, the founding CEO and president of POLITICO and president and COO of Allbritton Communications Company, announced late Sunday night that he would be stepping down to “pursue other career options.”
Discussion: @loisromano
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Is there more to hidden traffic than ‘dark social’?  —  In the keynote presentation at news:rewired on Friday (20 September), Jay Lauf, publisher of business news site Quartz, said an important question that publishers do not ask often enough is “where does our audience come from?”.
Discussion: @sarahmarshall3 and @jayrosen_nyu
Samantha Henig / The 6th Floor:
Comments on Comments  —  In this week's Riff, Michael Erard recounts the history of Web site comments and explains how their technical origins has shaped the actual commentary we've come to expect as usual today.  When it comes to the comments sections of newspapers, he writes that they …
Discussion: New York Times
 
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Caysey Welton / Folio:
Why Publishers Should Embrace the FTC's Native Advertising Workshop
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
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