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9:55 AM ET, September 30, 2013

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As Jeff Bezos prepares to take over, a look at forces that shaped The Washington Post sale — On April 4, Donald E. Graham sat for a videotaped interview about how the Internet and digital technology had hammered and transformed the news business. Cradling a coffee cup emblazoned with the word …

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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Twitter plans to make its IPO filing public this week — Twitter's IPO filing is ready, and the company intends to make it public this week, according to someone familiar with the plan. The goal is for Twitter to begin trading, likely on the New York Stock Exchange, before Thanksgiving.

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David Carr / New York Times:

For Journalists, More Firepower to Protect Sources and Secrets — Earlier this year, federal investigators secretly obtained two months of phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press, including calls on their home phones and cellphones. They did so without providing notice …

Discussion: @cryptomeorg, @carr2n, @mathewi, @kgosztola and @jswatz

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Perilous Task of Innovation in a Digital Age — CRUISES. Conferences. New forms of advertising. Fancy multimedia storytelling. — The Gray Lady, as The New York Times has long been known, isn't as sedate as she used to be. The company is innovating like a house afire.

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of selling more stuff — It's a certified trend: Thanks to digital media, we're consuming more stuff. — This week, we saw the fairly astounding news that mobile minutes are doubling the amount of time Americans are spending online, with smartphone and tablet usage the great multipliers.

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

CNN's Hillary Clinton Movie Has Been Canceled, Director Says — The planned documentary on Hillary Clinton that caused CNN to be banned from 2016 Republican debates has been canceled, its director said on Monday. — In a blog for HuffPost, Charles Ferguson said that it was a near total stonewalling …

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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Exclusive: ABC News Poaches Reuters Editor To Run Web Operations — Erle Norton will today be named Executive Producer of ABC News Digital, overseeing editorial and video operations across ABCNews.com. — patsdayfund.org / Via patsdayfund.org — ABC News president Ben Sherwood continues …

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Nicholas Watt / Guardian:

Cameron accused of misleading Leveson on Brooks friendship — New book casts doubt over David Cameron's account to press inquiry over his personal ties with Rebekah Brooks — David Cameron gave misleading evidence to the Leveson inquiry over his friendship with the former News International …

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Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Facebook Woos TV Networks With More Data — Facebook is laying down a new gauntlet in its battle with Twitter to dominate online conversation around television: more data for broadcasters. — This week, Facebook says it will begin sending weekly reports to America's four largest television networks …

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Ryan Holiday / Betabeat:

It's War: Scale and Intimacy Duke it Out in the Comments Section — One of the ironies of American “high societies” is that some of its most prestigious institutions were founded by members of what was, at the time, one of the lowliest professions: journalism.

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

News: Personalized or Serendipitous? — Every digital news designer faces the question: should the traditional serendipity of contents be preserved or should we go full steam for personalization? It turns out Google is already working on ways to combine both — on its usual grand scale.

Discussion: @dkiesow, @rajunarisetti and @bgrueskin

Belfast Telegraph:

Net ad spend ‘to overtake papers’ — Spending on internet advertising is on course to exceed the amount generated by newspapers and magazines within two years, an industry report said today. ALSO IN mbfsmagh Smartphones and tablet devices and technologies that make it easier for advertisers …