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12:30 PM ET, October 14, 2013

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Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
International Herald Tribune prepares for name change with look back at past  —  Newspaper, which is to become International New York Times, symbolised experience of Americans abroad  —  Ernest Hemingway, author, exile, and Rimbaud-esque enfant terrible, fully understood the life-enhancing …
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Serge Schmemann / New York Times:
The Life of a Newspaper  —  This is the last time you will be reading the International Herald Tribune; as of tomorrow, it is the International New York Times.  But weep not:  —  This is not the first name change for what was popularly known in its early years as the “Paris Herald,” …
Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed's Brazen, Nutty, Growth Plan  —  Crowdsourced Translations to Send ‘Listicles’ Overseas  —  Jonah Peretti, the founder of BuzzFeed, disclosed in a recent letter to investors that its traffic tripled over the past year, hitting 85 million visitors in August.
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Quartz Way (2)  —  Last week, we looked at Atlantic Media's business site Quartz (qz.com) from an editorial and product standpoint.  Today, we focus on its business model based on an emerging form of advertising.  The Quartz business model is simple: it's free and therefore entirely ad supported.
Discussion: @filloux and Talking Biz News
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
New York Times's Jill Abramson: ‘The First Amendment is first for a reason’  —  The executive editor on the new challenges facing investigative journalism and the paper's international expansion programme  —  For a newspaper that has yet to put a great deal of marketing muscle behind …
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
New York Times says UK tried to get it to hand over Snowden documents  —  Jill Abramson says she was approached by UK embassy officials after announcing collaboration with Guardian over NSA files  —  The editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, has confirmed that senior British officials attempted …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Jim VandeHei named president, CEO of POLITICO and Capital New York  —  POLITICO co-founder and executive editor Jim VandeHei will take over as president and CEO of POLITICO and Capital New York, Allbritton Communications Company chairman and CEO Robert Allbritton announced in a memo Sunday evening.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix in talks with cable providers to make its service available on set-top boxes  —  Online Video Service Would Be Available on Set-Top Boxes  —  Netflix Inc. NFLX -1.03% is in talks with several U.S. pay-television providers including Comcast Corp. CMCSA +1.55% and Suddenlink Communications …
Reuters:
Canadian gov't to push cable providers to unbundle channels  —  The Canadian government will soon require cable and satellite television providers to make it easier for customers to buy only the channels they want rather than pay for bundles, the country's industry minister said on Sunday.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Waywire, Cory Booker's Attempt to Build a Web Video Startup, Sells to Magnify  —  Waywire, the video startup best known for its association with politician Cory Booker, is being sold to Magnify, a Web video distributor.  —  People familiar with the transaction say that Magnify …
David Carr / New York Times:
Philadelphia Newspaper's Owners at War  —  When a group of wealthy, politically connected local businessmen bought The Philadelphia Inquirer in April 2012, there were concerns that they would use its influence to further their own interests, ruining what was left of a once remarkable American newspaper.
 
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