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2:50 PM ET, October 8, 2013

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Guardian:
Press plans for post-Leveson regulation rejected by ministers  —  Privy council delays final decision on royal charter as efforts to find common ground are dogged by distrust  —  Plans on how to regulate the press industry have been delayed until later this month after a difficult meeting …
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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
Paul Vale / UK - The Huffington Post:
Maria Miller Rejects Newspaper Industry Proposal For Royal Charter On Press Regulation  —  The Royal Charter proposal put forward by the newspaper industry to regulate the press was rejected by Culture Secretary Maria Miller on Tuesday.  —  The Minister said that the plans put forward …
Discussion: Guardian, @skynewsbreak and @bbcnormans
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Government gives press three days to get behind regulation plans  —  Maria Miller rejects industry's proposals in move that could result in some newspapers setting up their own watchdog  —  The government has given the newspaper industry three days to get behind its plans for press regulation …
Hugh Grant / Guardian:
Ignore the press barons: a royal charter is not ‘state regulation’
Discussion: @hackedoffhugh and CNN
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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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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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The BBC announces BBC Store, letting you pay to download and keep shows  —  It has been a tumultuous twelve months at the BBC, with scandal after scandal finally leading to a new Director General in the form of Lord Tony Hall who took over at the helm in April, replacing George Entwistle who had held fort for just fifty days.
Stephen Gandel / Fortune:
Twitter's shady accounting  —  Why is Twitter using the same accounting tricks that have been criticized so many times before?  —  FORTUNE - When it comes to its bottom line, Twitter would like potential investors to put on some heavily tinted rose-colored glasses.
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Fox, Sinclair and Local TV file suit against Aereo in Utah  —  The fight over Aereo is moving to Utah.  On Monday afternoon, Fox Broadcasting Co., Sinclair Broadcast Group and Local TV filed suit in federal court in Utah against Aereo, the start-up company that streams broadcast TV signals to consumers via the Internet.
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Has putting up a paywall at The Guardian become a moral imperative rather than a choice?  —  The Guardian newspaper in Britain is one of the most prominent papers without a paywall, and some media-industry observers argue that it should erect one soon or potentially lose its ability to create great journalism.
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Boston Globe plans Facebook-like ‘stream of content’  —  In late 2011 the Boston Globe (BostonGlobe.com) became the first major news site to implement responsive site, with the website resizing to suit the screen size it is viewed on.  Fewer than two years on and the site, which has a paywall …
Discussion: @niemanlab
BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed Announces 2013 - 2014 Michael Hastings National Security Fellow  —  Gregory D. Johnsen to join as year-long fellow  —  New York, October 8, 2013 — BuzzFeed announced today it has selected Gregory D. Johnsen as the inaugural 2013 - 2014 Michael Hastings National Security Reporting Fellow.
Discussion: @gregorydjohnsen and @jwherrman
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Col Allan returns to the ‘Post’ newsroom, as promised  —  “He's baaaaaack.”  —  That's how an insider described the return of New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan, who officially returned to the tabloid's newsroom this morning, according to several sources, following …
Max Blau / Mashable:
How Spotify Engineered the New Music Economy  —  Steve Cooper didn't expect much from Spotify.  —  When the New York-based band Spirit Animal released “The Black Jack White” last spring, the band's frontman didn't have high hopes about the streaming music service.
Bob Cohn / The Atlantic Online:
Old-Media Values in New-Media Venues  —  “Fast, hungry, and loosely edited” doesn't cut it anymore.  —  Once upon a time, there was old media.  It was reported, edited, top-edited, copy-edited, and fact-checked.  It was good.  —  And there was new media.
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
App data company App Annie expands into ebook analytics for publishers and authors  —  Authors and publishers need to know how and where their books are selling in order to target readers and time promotions.  Yet keeping track of and analyzing all the data that comes in from retailers …
Discussion: VentureBeat, GalleyCat and TechCrunch
Jon Lund / GigaOM:
Why tablet magazines are a failure  —  “We're starting a new magazine,” the entrepreneur told me.  “We have a potent niche to cover, and advertisers are dying for us to deliver interactive ads.”  —  Another woman I met with wanted to launch a tablet magazine about renewable energy.
 
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Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT Washington reporter: 'This is the most closed, control-freak administration I've ever covered'
Discussion: TruthRevolt.org and @dylanbyers
Bloomberg:
iTunes Radio to reach UK and Canada before Pandora, also expanding to Australia and NZ in early 2014
Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
EveryBlock founder advises Twitter not to hire NBC News digital chief
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NAHJ leaders cite Unity's ‘financial disorganization,’ ask board to vote to leave
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Allows Broadcasters to Examine Aereo's Patents
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
wpe13: Guardian boss discusses paywalls and privacy
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Claire Peracchio / The Atlantic Online:
Why Facebook and Twitter Are Fighting Over Your Television
Discussion: Businessweek, SocialTimes and Digits
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Bloomberg Media CEO Outlines 100-Day Strategy
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Adweek and Talking Biz News
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Don't say the B word: DVRs, VOD, ratings and the binge viewing threat
Discussion: @jasonwstein
Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing.com:
UK digital advertising market continues unstoppable growth as mobile doubles market share
Discussion: @gdibner
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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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