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5:50 PM ET, September 30, 2013

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Breaking Bad series finale breaks piracy records  —  Breaking Bad's series finale just broke a dubious record: The last episode of the critically acclaimed show has been pirated more than 500,000 times within the first 12 hours after it first appeared online, according to Torrentfreak.
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Don Reisinger / CNET:
‘Breaking Bad’ secret to success?  HDTVs and Netflix  —  That's the claim from the show's cinematographer Michael Slovis, who says that services like Netflix allow for binge viewing and thus, increased ratings.  —  The “Breaking Bad” finale might have come and gone, but the mania surrounding …
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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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC Scraps Hillary Clinton Miniseries  —  “After reviewing and prioritizing our slate of movie/mini-series development, we've decided that we will no longer continue developing the Hillary Clinton miniseries,” the network said in a statement Monday.  —  David Livingston/Getty Images
Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
Can the Guardian take its aggressive investigations global?  —  At eight-thirty on the morning of June 21st, Alan Rusbridger, the unflappable editor of the Guardian, Britain's liberal daily, was in his office, absorbing a lecture from Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister David Cameron.
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 …
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.
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 …
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: ABC News Poaches Reuters Editor To Run Web Operations  —  ABC News President Ben Sherwood continues to aggressively revamp and expand the network's digital operations, luring one of the top video editors at Reuters to run ABCNews.com.  Erle Norton will today be named …
Discussion: ABC News and @peterlauria3
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
First Newsweek hires under the new regime: Nicholas Wapshott, Victoria Bekiempis  —  With less than a day to go before Barry Diller's IAC passes the baton to Newsweek's new owners, IBT Media, word is beginning to leak out about the first new recruits at the legendary newsmagazine turned digital publication.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Bloomberg
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
McClatchy Editor Questions ‘Odd’ New York Times Story On Al Qaeda Leak  —  NEW YORK — The New York Times reported Monday that an August leak concerning an al Qaeda plot had “undermined U.S. intelligence” by prompting terrorists to change their methods of communicating, a front-page story …
Stephen Lepitak / The Drum:
Buzzfeed appoints The MediaBriefing editor Patrick Smith as media editor  —  Editor of media website The Mediabriefing, Patrick Smith, is to depart after three years to join BuzzFeed as media editor.  —  Smith, who made the announcement in a blog post on the website and another …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
 
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Nielsen Completes $1.26 Billion Purchase of Arbitron
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Content will vanish from shuttered Milwaukee-area Patch sites, editor says
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Adrienne LaFrance / Medium:
I Analyzed a Year of My Reporting for Gender Bias and This Is What I Found
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Times and Sunday Times merger ruled out as directors finally approve appointments of Witherow and Ivens
Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Yahoo agrees to pay damages to Singapore Press Holdings, ending copyright infringement lawsuit
Mauricio Serpa / PolicyMic:
Global Leaders Write For Newspapers and Keep Print Journalism Alive
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024 that, under specific conditions, let users log in with any password if the account's username had 52+ characters

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Popular photo editing company Pixelmator says it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, pending regulatory approval

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
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