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

10:05 PM ET, October 9, 2013

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“Hatching Twitter” excerpts depict a detached Jack Dorsey who later attempted to recast Twitter's history — 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 …

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.

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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 …

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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 …

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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Lionel Barber: FT.com to focus on ‘smart aggregation of content’

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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.

Guardian:

Press still plans self-regulation despite ministers' rejection, says Times editor — John Witherow's comments come as Lord Justice Leveson refuses to enter debate on press regulation reform — The editor of the Times yesterday gave the clearest indication yet that a group …

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK press on collision course with Parliament over regulation plan which would ‘fatally undermine freedom of expression’

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Ruth Bazinet / Medium:

Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets … Twitter's attrition rate is hindering its ability to adequately grow its user base, and ultimately its revenue. Twitter is currently losing money, and its losses are accelerating as it heads towards an IPO.

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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 …

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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.

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

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Risk and reward: Joi Ito on what news orgs could learn from tech companies about innovation — What's one of the most important things that drives innovation? Risk, according to Joi Ito, head of MIT's Media Lab. The willingness to take risks and accept what comes with them is what can lead …

Discussion: @marklittlenews and @jbenton

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Al Jazeera will launch a dedicated online channel, bring videos back to YouTube — Quatar-based TV news network Al Jazeera will launch a dedicated online video channel within the next few months. The channel was announced at the MIPCOM industry convention in Cannes this week …

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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.

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Simon Owens / Daily Dot:

The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army — Email Follow https://twitter.com/simonowens

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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.”