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8:05 PM ET, October 11, 2013

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New York Times:
Google updates ToS allowing inclusion of users' names, photos and comments in web ads  —  Google Sets Plan to Sell Users' Endorsements  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google, following in Facebook's footsteps, wants to sell users' endorsements to marketers to help them hawk their wares.
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Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
How To Opt Out Of Google's Plan To Sell Your Endorsements To Advertisers  —  Google announced Friday that it is “pulling a Facebook.”  Google is making a change to its terms of service that will allow it to monetize the reviews, comments and “+1″s its users have doled out around the Web.
Pew Research Journalism Project:
How Americans Get TV News at Home  —  Amy Mitchell, Mark Jurkowitz, Jodi Enda, and Kenny Olmstead  —  Even at a time of fragmenting media use, television remains the dominant way that Americans get news at home, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Nielsen data.
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Broadcasters petition Supreme Court in Aereo fight  —  Aereo's arrays of dime-sized antennae.  —  (Credit: Aereo)  —  Television broadcasters Friday petitioned the US Supreme Court to get involved in their fight against Aereo, the online service that streams their over-the-air programming to its paying members.
David Carr / New York Times:
When Our News Is Gerrymandered, Too  —  I read an interview this past week with someone who gets his news from a narrow band of information providers.  —  He reads The Wall Street Journal, a really good newspaper that tilts right on its editorial page and sometimes in its news coverage.
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Phil Griffin: Cable News ‘In a sort of flux’  —  This morning TVNewser attended a briefing to preview the new msnbc.com (more on that later), but while we were there, MSNBC president Phil Griffin decided to weigh in on the state of cable news, and of his own channel.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap and The Daily Caller
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Government publishes final version of press regulation scheme with compromises on arbitration and Editors' Code Committee  —  The Government today published a revised blueprint for press regulation which is set to go for approval by the Privy Council at the end of the month.
Jim Romenesko:
Survey: 40% of publishers would advise their kids to go into the newspaper business  —  Cribb, Greene & Associates, the oldest newspaper brokerage in the U.S., says its fall 2013 publisher confidence survey results “indicate that publishers are feeling better about the near term future than they did in 2012 …
Discussion: @mathewi
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV  —  Thirty-four percent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says.  —  Brian Brett, the Times' executive director of customer research …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
White House defends transparency record after scathing CPJ report  —  The White House is defending its record of transparency after a scathing report found that the Obama administration's unprecedented efforts to control leaks have had a chilling effect on journalism.
Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:
This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner was officially notified through Twitter  —  It appears the Nobel Peace Prize committee couldn't get in touch with its latest laureate Friday morning — and, out of sheer desperation, decided to hound the winner on Twitter.
Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Newspaper sales dive enters 8th straight year  —  As digital advertising sales soared 18% to a record high in the first six months of this year, the revenues of the publicly traded newspaper companies slipped an average of 5.5% to enter an eighth year of unabated decline.
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Citizen journalism site Blottr to supply video to NYT Syndicate  —  Blottr will supply around five breaking news videos a day to the syndicate, produced exclusively for its clients  — Read more  —  Other top stories  —  Also on Journalism.co.uk...
Discussion: Big News Network.com
Jacob Mikanowski / The New Yorker Blog:
Dunhuang: A Secret Library, Digitally Excavated  —  Just over a thousand years ago, someone sealed up a chamber in a cave outside the oasis town of Dunhuang, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in western China.  The chamber was filled with more than five hundred cubic feet of bundled manuscripts.
 
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:
Media coalition urges better protection of First Amendment rights in NSA, FISA court matters
Discussion: Poynter
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
MSNBC's New Website Is Network's ‘First True Digital Home’
Discussion: TVNewser
Patrick Smith / The Media Briefing:
How much is too much? Getting the content balance right in digital publishing
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Buys That Include Sponsored Content Now 20% of Ad Revenue at Forbes
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Folio and Forbes, Thanks:@steverubel
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 force TVCatchUp to drop their services
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android
Lauren Klinger / Poynter:
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Discussion: @wadeontweets and @rabeam
Guardian:
Spies and journalism: when worlds collide
Dave McNary / Variety:
Nickelodeon Pays $11 Million To Writers Following WGA Claims Of Late Payments
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Deadline.com