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1:10 AM ET, October 4, 2013

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter files to raise $1B, company is not profitable, will trade under ticker TWTR  —  Twitter had revenue of $253 million in the first six months of 2013 but it was not profitable, according to its S-1 prospectus, which was made public late Thursday.  The company filed the official IPO …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
How Twitter's Ad Business Went From Zero to $500 Million in Less Than Four Years  —  Just a few years ago, the people who ran Twitter — co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone — didn't even like talking about the notion of selling ads.  —  But Williams and Stone have moved on.
Discussion: Forbes, NYT Bits, ZDNet, CNET, @sbermo and @pkafka
Gerry Shih / Reuters:
Twitter reveals rip-roaring growth, big losses ahead of IPO  —  (Reuters) - Twitter Inc, racing toward the largest Silicon Valley IPO since Facebook Inc's 2012 coming-out party, hopes to woo investors with rip-roaring revenue growth despite never having made a profit in the past three years.
Discussion: @mathewi
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
With the new Circa, news follows you  —  Today, mobile news startup Circa is launching a new version of its iPhone app, expanding to Android, and is subtly shifting course with its strategy.  Circa 2. still delivers news stories broken up into snippets, but it is adding a new focus …
Discussion: Wired, AppNewser and Mashable
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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Readies Set-Top Box for Holidays  —  Streaming Video Device Would Rival Roku, Apple TV  —  Amazon.com Inc. is taking steps toward releasing a video-streaming device in time for the holiday selling season, according to people briefed on the company's plans.
bitly blog:
Bitly's new state map shows where people get their news online  —  Introducing the Bitly Media Map!  —  Last March, Bitly teamed up with Forbes to produce a data visualization which looks at how 15 media properties are being disproportionately consumed online on a state-by-state basis over the month of April.
Jessica Weiss / Mediashift:
Inside NPR's ‘Mobile-First’ Strategy  —  When news designers tell Brian Boyer they want to produce big, detailed news projects online, he encourages them to think smaller.  —  Smaller screen, that is.  —  Boyer, the news apps editor at National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C. …
Discussion: @pbsidealab and @mediatwit, Thanks:@mediatwit
Hayley Ringle / Phoenix Business Journal:
Arizona Republic editors to reporters: Do your work at Starbucks or McDonald's  —  Starbucks and McDonald's will soon be the new offices for roughly 20 community reporters at The Arizona Republic.  —  Top Republic editors met with reporters from the Mesa, Scottsdale and Phoenix community sections Thursday …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Stephanie Meyers / Inc.:
Why Are E-Book Subscription Start-Ups So Hot?  —  New players are piling into the e-book subscription biz.  But wait—don't libraries already lend e-books for free?  —  Scribd, which first made a name for itself in 2007 as a “YouTube for documents” is jumping into the “Netflix for e-books” …
Steve Earl / PR Week:
News Corp: a lot of life in print yet  —  Print media remains utterly viable and a cheap way to reach large audiences.  —  That might seem like the type of statement which was made in the middle of the last decade, with froth rising about the growth of social media and editorial eyebrows being raised about the rapid shift online.
Discussion: @mathewi
Lydia DePillis / Wonkblog:
One winner from the shutdown: Netflix?  —  Well, Netflix's stock sure started looking good on the eve of the government shutdown.  —  Yeah, it might have something to do with a sweet distribution deal with a Swedish cable company.  And sure, there's the dramatic shift toward online streaming …
Discussion: BGR and Associated Press
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Novel by Michael Hastings to Be Published Posthumously  —  Michael Hastings, the journalist and author, had written a novel based on his own life before he was killed in a car crash in June.  —  That book, described as a fast, funny roman à clef about a young, eager magazine intern …
Discussion: The Wrap and The Huffington Post
Press Gazette:
Two Mail on Sunday journalists suspended after approaching mourners at memorial for Miliband uncle  —  The Mail on Sunday has “unreservedly” apologised to Ed Miliband after an uninvited reporter went to a private memorial service he was attending for his late uncle.
Discussion: Guardian and @domponsford
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Turner Nets Go Dark on Washington Post Co.'s Cable One, While Verizon FiOS Renews Pact  —  About 600,000 customers of Washington Post Co.-owned Cable One lost access to Turner Broadcasting System's cable channels Tuesday — which the programmer said is the first blackout in its history …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Scripps Free Ulive Internet Video Site Cuts Cable TV Cord
Discussion: New York Times
David Taintor / Adweek:
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BBC:
Profile: Paul Dacre, Daily Mail editor
Discussion: Channel 4 and Financial Times
Rebecca Theim / Poynter:
A year after daily publication ceased in Alabama and New Orleans, media market is ‘fractured’
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
The Next Web to launch first digital magazine to use the new Prss publishing platform
Discussion: The Next Web and Prss PressDocs
Robert Feder:
Tribune Co. boss tells employees he won't cut ‘too close to the bone’
 Earlier Picks: 
Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:
These Journalists Spent Two Years and $750,000 Covering One Story
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Ebooks gone global: Report suggests less resistance, more legal sales and importance of Apple
Matt Brian / Engadget:
France approves law stopping Amazon from shipping discounted books for free
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
TiVo, Rovi Flirt With SeaChange: Sources
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Jukeboxing: Rdio fights Spotify with free mobile radio
AAN:
San Diego Reader Launches eBook Publishing Program to Re-Introduce Great Writing to New Readers
Andrea Mitchell / Politico:
An unflappable anchor with a huge heart
Discussion: msnbc.com