Mediagazer: Branded and owned by GE, run by Atlantic Media Strategies, Ideas Lab is a test for brand journalism (Caroline O'Donovan/Nieman Journalism Lab)

10:10 PM ET, September 25, 2013

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Liberty Media CEO Sees Benefits in A La Carte Proposal — Greg Maffei says a bill from Sen. John McCain has “many positive attributes” and discusses Charter's cable consolidation plans. — While most TV network owners have spoken out against a la carte pricing of pay TV channels …

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: Malone Says Reaching Time Warner Cable Deal Still Makes Sense

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

Jeff Bezos: Are You Throwing a Party for Your Guests — or for Yourself? — Amazon CEO Talks with ABC News about The Washington Post and Customer-Centricity — Amazon founder-CEO Jeff Bezos has some new Kindles to sell — which, so far, have been well-received.

Discussion: AllThingsD and The Wrap

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Jeff Bezos: Washington Post Purchase ‘Is A Personal Investment’

Discussion: Today, Poynter, The Verge, ABC News, CNN, FishbowlDC, International Business Times and Businessweek

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

How many people really pay for digital news? — Now that roughly a third of the nation's newspapers are charging for access to their web and mobile content, the early evidence suggests that digital audiences aren't nearly as enthusiastic about paying for news as publishers are about charging for it.

Discussion: @niemanlab and @emilysteel

Katelyn Belyus / Folio:

Winning the Paywall Debate — Paywalls have their detractors, but here's one publisher's case in favor. — We're doing something revolutionary at The Nation: we're finally testing different paywall strategies. Sharing this is like dumping my purse on the table of a restaurant—it's a mixed bag of embarrassment and pride.

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Lloyd's List, the world's oldest newspaper, to give up on print — Lloyd's List, which lays claim to be the world's oldest continuously published newspaper, is to become a totally digital entity by the end of this year. — The paper, founded in 1734, is regarded as the leading news …

Discussion: Lloyd's List, Informa News, FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Debuts Emergency Alerts Service — Here's another use case for Twitter, the social network that wants to be everywhere: Emergency service aid. — The company on Wednesday unveiled its Alerts service, a way for agencies to deliver “accurate information from credible organizations” during times of crisis.

Discussion: blog.twitter.com, ZDNet, VatorNews, BetaNews, ABC News, Mashable and Pocket-lint

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

If Popular Science cares about science, why not try to fix comments instead of killing them? — Popular Science magazine says it is shutting down comments because they are “bad for science,” but what's really bad for science is closing off a potential avenue for informed debate around the topics the site is writing about.

Discussion: Slate, The Atlantic Online, Yahoo! News, @talkingnewmedia, Geekosystem, Rhetorica, The Week, Guardian, ComPost, Boing Boing, The Daily Caller, Popular Science and @michaelshermer

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter Strikes Deal With NFL — Football League Will Produce Short, Ad-Supported Highlights Site — The National Football League has reached a deal with Twitter Inc. to make football highlights and other content available on the social- media service, the latest big partnership aimed …

Discussion: AdAge, CNET, Reuters, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, @besvinick, Mashable and The Verge

Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

Sudan loses Internet access — and it looks like the government is behind it — Internet intelligence corporation Renesys confirmed reports Wednesday that Sudan has been cut off from the Internet. Al Arabiya reported earlier Wednesday morning that Internet access was cut and schools …

Discussion: @antderosa, Guardian, Mashable, Softpedia News, Business Insider and Committee to Protect …

Liam Corcoran / Wannabe Hacks:

EXCLUSIVE - Guardian and Cardiff scrap plans for Journalism MA — The Guardian and Cardiff University have scrapped their plans to launch a journalism masters degree. — There was much publicity last year when the joint venture, for a course in Journalism with Digital Media …

Discussion: Press Gazette and @kingstonjourno

Adam Taylor / Business Insider:

Iranian News Agency Accuses CNN Of Fabricating Translation In Which President Rouhani Acknowledged The Holocaust — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's trip to New York for the U.N. General Assembly has been observed closely, with many wondering if he will take the same hardline approach …

Discussion: Associated Press, Fars News Agency, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Amanpour, Mediaite, Erik Wemple, Amanpour, CAMERA Snapshots, @camanpour, New York Times and Guardian

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

This American Watchdog? CIR and PRX pilot a radio show highlighting investigative reporting — The Center for Investigative Reporting is partnering with PRX to produce a pilot for a radio show called Reveal. The hour-long show will focus on investigative reporting and the behind-the-scenes process of producing it.

Discussion: @cironline and @niemanlab

Randall Palmer / Reuters:

Canadian regulators team up to watch telecoms pricing — (Reuters) - Two of Canada's top regulators said on Wednesday they would cooperate to ensure affordable prices for telecommunications and broadcasting services, a key platform of the federal government's telecommunications policy.

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

As Goodreads grows up, it can't please everyone. Should it try? — Goodreads, a social networking site for book lovers, has grown a lot since its acquisition by Amazon earlier this year. And as it adds members, it's facing some of the same challenges that big online communities like Twitter and Reddit have experienced before it.

Discussion: Mashable, Dear Author, Melville House Books, ComPost and Book Binge

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Pinterest sees growing number of journalists using the site, makes related changes — Oh, How Pinteresting! — Pinterest introduced new article pins Tuesday; links to articles you've pinned can include a story's headline and byline, plus a description as well as a link.

Discussion: Audience Development, Oh, How Pinteresting!, Forbes, VatorNews, Guardian and Engadget

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix exec: HBO would have many more customers if it sold online-only subscriptions — HBO has long said that it has no plans to sell subscriptions directly over the internet, but Netflix CFO David Wells suggested Wednesday at a Goldman Sachs conference that the cable channel should rethink that decision.

Discussion: Consumerist and WebProNews

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Branded and owned by GE, run by Atlantic Media Strategies, Ideas Lab is a test for brand journalism — Brock Meeks remembers a time when online journalism of any stripe made media types as wary and disgruntled as sponsored content makes them today. Meeks, a ten-year veteran of MSNBC …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Wall Street Journal’ editor Gerard Baker decries native advertising as a ‘Faustian pact’ — Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker took to a podium last night and warned of the dangers of “native advertising,” a big buzzword these days describing the practice of presenting brand-generated content in the style of editorial.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, eMedia Vitals and @jaywattsiii

Jesse Walker / Hit & Run:

Belgian Racist Uses Spurious Copyright Claim to Censor Libertarian Websites — Two left-libertarian organizations, the Center for a Stateless Society and Students for a Stateless Society, are fending off a bigot who believes his critics don't have a right to quote his words while criticizing him.

Discussion: Techdirt

Eliza Brooke / TechCrunch:

Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing — Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired file-sharing service Cloudup, which launched in beta in June. The acquisition will help Automattic improve two features …

Discussion: VentureBeat and Raanan Bar-Cohen

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Is Newt Gingrich breaking CNN's rules? — Just weeks into his new role, CNN Crossfire host Newt Gingrich has already broken some ethical rules set forth by the network's executive vice president of standards and practices, according to a new report from Media Matters For America, the liberal watchdog group.

Discussion: Mother Jones and TheBlaze.com