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12:25 PM ET, September 24, 2013

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Eric Newton / Columbia Journalism Review:
Paying attention to the shield law's critics  —  Journalists shouldn't blindly support the shield law without taking in the whole picture  —  When a Senate committee this month approved the “Free Flow of Information Act of 2013,” applause was heard from scores of media shield law supporters …
Discussion: BuzzMachine and @jeffjarvis
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
NSA surveillance goes beyond Orwell's imagination - Alan Rusbridger  —  Guardian editor says depth of NSA surveillance programs greatly exceed anything the 1984 author could have imagined  —  The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell's 1984 …
Discussion: @rupertmyers and @jeffjarvis
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Chris Elliott / Guardian:
Open door: The readers' editor on... the Guardian's coverage of government surveillance
Discussion: The Drum and Press Gazette
Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:
News Corp reveals phone-hacking legal costs of £238m  —  Rupert Murdoch's media empire has spent $382m (£238m) over the past two years on legal fees dealing with the aftermath of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.  —  In its annual report, released over the weekend …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News Corp's plunging revenues concealed by subtle accountancy
Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
To “save NSFWCORP”, founder publicly solicits investors on first day of loosened SEC rules  —  A change in fundraising law, but is there still time to save NSFWCORP from a forced pivot?  —  You've seen it, of course.  “Brewster's Millions,” the movie — so popular that Hollywood remade …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
NME to experiment with online charges  —  Magazine will charge 69p for access to ‘enhanced digital’ version of its cover feature but says there are no plans for a full paywall  —  NME will charge 69p from Wednesday for online access to its cover feature on indie group Haim.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Hub of the Twitterverse: The Boston Globe has built a localized, tweet-powered news aggregator  —  In the Boston area, the passing of a Dunkin Donuts franchise is news.  So are the finer points of Tom Brady's hair.  But in this instance, we know the closing of the Mass Ave.
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
TV news should have on-air fact-checkers  —  You don't usually think of ESPN's Tony Kornheiser as a journalism ethics sage.  A font of sports one-liners, sure.  An adviser on ways to improve news outlets' accountability, not so much.  But the co-host of Pardon the Interruption is on to something …
Discussion: TVSpy and @davidfolkenflik
Steven Musil / CNET:
Judge appears to back Google's defense of digital books project  —  Judge's comments suggest he finds merit in the Web giant's assertion that the project is exempt from copyright laws under the fair use provision.  —  A U.S. judge made comments Monday that suggest favor for Google's defense …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links That Go Nowhere  —  WASHINGTON — Supreme Court opinions have come down with a bad case of link rot.  According to a new study, 49 percent of the hyperlinks in Supreme Court decisions no longer work.  —  This can sometimes be amusing.
Discussion: @stoweboyd, @holdenweb and The Verge
Max Read / Gawker:
Horse_Ebooks Has Been a Buzzfeed Employee Since 2011  —  Since 2011, the semi-legendary spam Twitter feed “@Horse_ebooks” has been under control of Jacob Bakkila, a Buzzfeed creative strategist who used to tweet under the handle “@agentlebrees.”  —  Bakkila revealed his identity …
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Spotify Launches In Taiwan, Argentina, Greece and Turkey  —  Spotify has launched in Argentina, Greece, Turkey and Taiwan, bringing its streaming music platform to a total of 32 countries.  —  The heart of the Mandopop (Mandarin pop) industry, Taiwan marks the latest step in Spotify's Asia expansion …
Christopher Heine / Adweek:
Will iTunes Radio Spark Digital Music Shakeout?  —  There appeared to be an overabundance of digital music streaming services before Apple's iTunes Radio became a reality last week, so it stands to reason that a shakeout—if it wasn't already on the horizon—could now be only a matter of time.
Discussion: Forbes, CNET and CNET
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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Pandora Falls 10% as Apple ITunes Radio Draws 11 Million
Discussion: @jaredbkeller, USA Today and Inc.com
Melanie Grayce West / Wall Street Journal:
Publishing Family Funds Business Journalism Center at CUNY  —  With a $3 million gift from the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Family Foundation, the City University of New York's graduate school of journalism will get a center for business journalism.  The gift, to be announced Tuesday …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
 
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Reuters:
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
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