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12:25 AM ET, October 9, 2013

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Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:
Flipboard Hits 90 Million Users, Nearly Doubles Since April  —  Just two weeks after announcing a $50 million dollar round of funding, mobile news reader Flipboard revealed growth numbers that may explain investors' eagerness to get behind it.  —  The company now claims 90 million users …
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Press Gazette:
Government presses on with Parliament-backed press regulation plan - but offers compromise on libel arbitration  —  The Government has rejected a press regulation plan put forward by newspaper and magazine publishers and is instead press ahead with the ratification of a Royal Charter …
Discussion: Guardian and Guardian
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
President Obama Shuns TV Reporters During Shutdown Press Conference  —  President Barack Obama blamed Republicans in Congress for putting the country on the brink of financial disaster in a Tuesday press conference about the government shutdown that clocked more than an hour …
Discussion: Erik Wemple and Politico
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Politico:
No healthcare questions at Obama presser  —  President Barack Obama sustained an hour-long press conference today without a single question about his signature healthcare law and the glitches that continue to plague the insurance exchanges — a point that frustrated several conservatives.
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Sports Illustrated Is Testing a New Type of Paywall  —  Sports Illustrated is testing a paywall that lets readers access its print articles early if they watch a 30-second video ad first.  —  The provider is Selectable Media, which has been testing consumers' willingness to watch video ads for free WiFi, music and games.
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Video Networks Alloy Digital, Break Media to Merge Into Defy Media  —  Combined Company Projected to Rake in $100 Million in Revenue  —  In the latest sign of consolidation in online video, two major online video networks and production companies, Alloy Digital and Break Media will merge to form Defy Media …
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
‘PBS NewsHour’ Looks to Change Ownership  —  WASHINGTON — MacNeil-Lehrer Productions will give up its ownership of the “The PBS NewsHour,” which has struggled financially in recent years, its two longtime co-anchors told the staff on Tuesday.  —  In an internal memo, the two co-anchors …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Week Gets Its Third Publisher in Three Years  —  The Week, the offline/online news aggregator, has a new publisher.  —  Tim Koorbusch, who had been running U.S. sales for Say Media for the last year, has replaced Michael Wolfe, who joined the company at the beginning of 2012.
Ellen McGirt / Fast Company:
Twitter Defines Itself By What Facebook Isn't  —  Ask Twitter CEO Dick Costolo or any of his lieutenants what makes Twitter special and the answer is the same: “It's public, it's real time, it's conversational, and it's widely distributed.”  It took Twitter a long time to find a message and get everyone on the same page.
Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why journalists can still trust Tor  —  Despite the Silk Road bust, the Freedom Hosting attack, and even the latest Snowden scoop, it's still one of the most reliable tools for anonymity online  —  I'm not going to bury the lede.  Yes, Tor is still the recommended method for journalists …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Hearst UK reports tripled profits  —  Hearst UK, the British arm of the US company that publishes magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Esquire and Good Housekeeping, has tripled its pre-tax profits to £17.4m, reports The Independent.  —  And it attributes part of that rise to digital sales …
Discussion: The Independent
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
More gadgets, more reading: Survey suggests e-reader and tablet owners read more books  —  A new survey from USA Today and book discovery website Bookish finds that U.S. adults who own a tablet or e-reader read more books than the device-less.  The survey also found differences …
Discussion: Melville House Books and vook.com
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
BBC Launches Playlister, A Social Music Service With Spotify, YouTube And Deezer To Tag Tracks Heard On BBC  —  On the heels of the BBC ramping up its iPlayer on-demand video and music player as the go-to place for all its digital assets, the UK's public broadcaster is also gearing up to take its music service up another notch.
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Steve Volk / Philadelphia Magazine:
Exclusive: Internal Documents Tell the Tale of Inquirer Editor Bill Marimow's Dismissal  —  Inquirer editor Bill Marimow was fired after many months of infighting with publisher Bob Hall, according to internal documents anonymously delivered this afternoon to Philadelphia magazine.
 
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Discussion: Guardian
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Old-Media Values in New-Media Venues
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Max Blau / Mashable:
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals

 
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