Mediagazer: ‘The Circle’ Author Dave Eggers Denies Reading Facebook Memoir That He's Accused Of Plagiarizing (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

5:25 PM ET, October 2, 2013

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Reuters Will Cut Around Five Percent Across Editorial — Stephen Adler said that there will be around a five percent cut in editorial across Reuters, the president and editor in chief announced during a staff conference call this morning. — The cuts will be broadly distributed across …

Discussion: Big News Network.com, FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Chromecast Adds Hulu to Its Modest App Collection — Back in July, when Google introduced its Chromecast Web TV gadget, it said that the device would eventually support apps from services like Hulu. So here's the Hulu app the company had talked about, available via Google Play and Apple's App Store.

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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Study: Chromecast allows users to circumvent TV viewing restrictions

Discussion: VideoNuze Analysis and @pkafka

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

Lessons from The Dallas Morning News's failed paywall — The paper shuns the meter model and flops — In May 2009, Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney told the Senate that a paywall didn't make sense for his newspaper unless everybody else did one too:

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter, @cjr, AdAge and @jbenton

Anna Li / Poynter:

Government shutdown closes websites, affecting data journalists — Tourists, leaf-peepers and rambunctious World War II veterans weren't the only people inconvenienced by the partial government shutdown that began Tuesday: Journalists who deal with government data found themselves in a tough spot …

Discussion: Stars & Stripes, Forbes, IRE.org and UPROXX

Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:

Patrick Leahy At NSA Hearing: ‘We Get More In The Newspapers Than In Classified Briefings’ — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee complained Wednesday at an oversight hearing that he learns more about the NSA's programs in the newspapers than in classified briefings.

Discussion: Computerworld, Mashable and Guardian

Ryan Tate / Wired:

Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online — Ev Williams has figured out the internet. — That's what he told the gathered tech heads at the recent XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon, and while he may have said this with tongue partly in cheek, he spent …

Discussion: @joshelman and @jayrosen_nyu

Bloomberg:

Disney-Dish Talks Said to Hinge on Ad Skipping, New Nets — Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s contract renewal talks with Dish Network Corp. (DISH) are hung up on Dish's ad-skipping technology and terms for two new Disney cable channels, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Leo Mirani / Quartz:

Britain's answer to BuzzFeed hopes silly games will be an even bigger money-spinner than cat videos — At the end of August, when a joint Anglo-American strike on Syria seemed inevitable, a British website posted an article headlined “The US Department of Defense isn't sure where Damascus is: statistical proof.”

Discussion: @blathnaidhealy and @nycjim

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

How Long Play hopes to shake-up Finnish media with e-singles — Publisher of long-form, investigative e-books Long Play started with just €500 spending money less than one year ago, but with large ambitions to disrupt Finnish media and encourage innovation. And now, almost nine months later, it is on the path to profit.

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Alex Dalenberg / Upstart Business Journal:

PandoDaily, The New Republic and a J-School debate to drive professors bonkers … If you went to journalism school, it's drilled into you from day one. Nothing may be more sacred in the dicta of legacy media than the separation of advertising and editorial.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

‘The Circle’ Author Dave Eggers Denies Reading Facebook Memoir That He's Accused Of Plagiarizing — One of the weirder things to come out of all the discussion around Dave Eggers' upcoming novel The Circle (which focuses on life at a fictional tech company) has been the accusation by Kate Losse …

Discussion: Valleywag, Betabeat, Medium, The Atlantic Wire, WebProNews, @anthonyha, AllFacebook and Felix Salmon

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Uzbek journalist in secret detention — An investigative journalist who has reported on child exploitation in the Uzbekistan cotton industry has been arrested and is being held incommunicado. — Sergei Naumov was detained 10 days ago (21 September) ahead of this year's cotton harvest.

Neyaz Farooquee / India Ink:

Citizen Journalism Grows in India's War-Torn Tribal Belt — On an August afternoon, Mastram Ghosh, a lanky young man from Tikamgarh in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, stood on Jantar Mantar Street near the Indian parliament in central Delhi. A huge crowd protesting …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Wish 4chan a happy birthday — you should be glad it exists, even if you never go there — It seems like just yesterday that teenaged 4chan founder Christopher “Moot” Poole was single-handedly operating the site from his parent's house, running out of money for hosting fees on the one hand …

Discussion: Chris Hates Writing, The Next Web and Daily Dot

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

BBC cuts: just four senior management jobs set for closure — NUJ official says journalists bear brunt of latest round of cuts to posts, with 75 earmarked for closure in news and current affairs — BBC News has earmarked 75 posts for closure, but there are concerns that only four are in senior manager positions.

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Newspaper self-destruction: Providence Journal edition — Executive bonuses and newsroom cuts do not go together — If the digital revolution has done nothing else, it has exposed the extent to which American newspapers have relied on their quasi-monopolistic control over local advertising markets to fund news operations.

AdAge:

BtoB Magazine to Become Part of Advertising Age — BtoB Magazine, the leading publication for business-to-business marketers, will become part of Advertising Age, its sister publication on the consumer marketing side, Crain Communications announced Tuesday.

Discussion: Folio and BtoB Magazine, Thanks:@steverubel

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Intel exec Erik Huggers throws his hat into the (surprisingly crowded) Hulu CEO ring — Early this year, it seemed like no one associated with Hulu wanted to claim ownership of it. In January, the company's CEO and CTO both announced their resignation, moves that were followed by multiple high level executive departures.

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