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All Is Fair in Love and Twitter — Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders and firefighter poles, all dented and dinged, connected by gritty brown pylons.

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Al Gore Tried To Buy Twitter And Merge It With Current. What If He'd Succeeded? — Don't you just love all the stuff that comes out when a hot tech company declares it's going public? I'm thinking in particular about a tidbit from Nick Bilton's piece in the Times magazine about the intrigue and betrayals in Twitter's early years.

Discussion: Business Insider, Telegraph, @jeffbercovici, Mashable and GigaOM

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Financial Times to move to single global print edition — The Financial Times is to institute path-breaking changes to the production of its printed newspaper that appear to be the penultimate step towards becoming a digital-only publication. — A lengthy memo sent yesterday afternoon …

Discussion: New York Times, Talking Biz News, TheMediaBriefing.com, Strange Attractor, AdAge, @dicktofel, @b50, @blakehounshell and @yavuzbaydar

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

Lionel Barber: FT.com to focus on ‘smart aggregation of content’ — In a memo to staff, published by the Financial Times today, editor Lionel Barber outlined ‘the next steps’ in its approach to digital-first' — The editor of the Financial Times has shared “the next steps” …

Discussion: Financial Times, @vilpponen, USA Today, Telegraph, @mirkolorenz and @mathewi

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal — Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years. Now it has its it biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service.

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

BuzzFeed president: ‘We feel strongly that traditional media have given up on young people’ — Jon Steinberg tells MIPCOM audience that his site is ‘bringing more hard news on a relative basis than a lot of the traditional television networks’ — News site BuzzFeed attracted 85m unique visitors in August …

Discussion: @nedregotten and Kirk LaPointe's …

Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:

Rusbridger defends Snowden leaks claiming ‘any terrorist who can tie his shoelaces’ is aware of surveillance — Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger dismissed criticism of his paper's Edward Snowden surveillance revelations claiming that any terrorist who can tie his shoe laces knows that the internet is being monitored.

Discussion: Hillicon Valley and Guardian

Nick Hopkins / Guardian:
MI5 chief's criticism of Snowden and the Guardian is hardly unexpected

Discussion: Telegraph, Press Gazette, Channel 4, ITV News, Fox News, @ggreenwald, The Week UK, UPI, International Business Times, Sky News, Daily Mail, @arusbridger, The Independent, Techdirt and BBC

Peter Sterne / Capital New York:

A young woman ‘languishing’ at CBS gets a quick career assist from Mika Brzezinski — On Tuesday night, “Morning Joe” cohost Mika Brzezinski—looking elegant in a ruffled black dress and a black coat with a ruffled fringe to match—stood in a pair of Louboutins before a long line of young women …

Discussion: The Wrap, @morningmika, @msfoundation, @petersterne, @mikiebarb, @reidpillifant, @nishachittal, @janestreet and The Huffington Post

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Journalists of the Jersey Shore: How a novice reporter built a news network from scratch — The first post went up sometime just before 2:34 p.m. on September 12. — Post by Jersey Shore Hurricane News. — Just a few minutes later, the first of 375 comments went up on the next post …

Discussion: @rdmersey and @jbenton

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

UK press on collision course with Parliament over regulation plan which would ‘fatally undermine freedom of expression’ — The newspaper and magazine industry is on a collision course with the Government after condemning proposals on press regulation which could “fatally undermine freedom of expression”.

Discussion: Guardian, @domponsford, BBC and The Huffington Post

Guardian:
Lord Justice Leveson faces standoff with MPs over press regulation

Discussion: Press Gazette, @joshhalliday and Big News Network.com

Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

Post reporter: Here's why we refused the NSA's demand to censor the names of PRISM companies — Barton Gellman, the Washington Post reporter who broke the news of the NSA online content collection program PRISM, says the government asked him to suppress the names of the nine companies participating in the program.

Discussion: @bartongellman

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Vevo lands on Samsung smart TVs. Next up: Chromecast? — Owners of smart TVs and Blu-ray players made by Samsung now have one more way to get their music video fix: Vevo, the major label-owned music video venture, launched an app on Samsung's smart TV platform Wednesday.

Discussion: VEVO.com, TechCrunch and CNET

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

HuffPost Opens Deutschland Bureau — We know you've been on the edge of your seats for this one. HuffPost Deutschland launches tomorrow in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The editorial director is Cherno Jobatey, the 20-year host of popular morning show “ZDF-Morgenmagazin.”

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Louis C.K.'s new HBO special is on sale for $5, DRM-free, through his website — Louis C.K. pulled in over $1 million in 12 days when he first sold a special, “Live at the Beacon Theater,” directly in 2011. Now fans can buy his latest special, “Louis C.K. Oh My God,” for $5 from his website.

Discussion: Des Moines Register and The Verge