Mediagazer: Capital New York Hires Three Columnists As Relaunch Nears (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

5:05 PM ET, October 14, 2013

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International New York Times kicks off rebranding with global events and free digital access — ‘International New York Times’ kicks off with events in Paris, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Singapore and more — As readers pick up the final issue today of The International Herald Tribune under the title …

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

A Leaner Times Aims for Global Growth — While some newspaper companies have spent recent years shifting their emphasis to other types of investments like television, The New York Times Company has taken a different path. It has been selling off its peripheral assets and concentrating on its flagship newspaper and Web site.

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Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
International Herald Tribune: the paper of the American abroad

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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:

Sony Strikes Production Deal With Netflix — Sony Pictures Television will become the first big Hollywood studio to produce a new TV show for Netflix Inc., underscoring how the TV industry's elite are starting to view the streaming video service as a launch pad for original series.

Discussion: GigaOM, The Next Web and @amolsharmawsj

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix in talks with cable providers to make its service available on set-top boxes

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.

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Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

Post Mortem — A (somewhat premature) newspaper autopsy. — If the New York Post should ever close its doors, after a two-century-plus history, the man most responsible for this will be Chase Carey, who has been chief operating officer of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for a dozen years.

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Demand Media:

Demand Media Announces Resignation of Richard Rosenblatt as Chairman & CEO; Shawn Colo Appointed Interim CEO; James Quandt Appointed Chairman — SANTA MONICA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 14, 2013— Demand Media® (NYSE: DMD) today announced that its board of directors has accepted …

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Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Carl Bernstein Plans Memoir on His Cub Reporter Days — The writer Carl Bernstein has struck a deal to write a memoir of his early years as a cub reporter in Washington, his publisher, Henry Holt & Company, said on Monday. — Rather than focusing on his famous tenure at The Washington Post …

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Jack Dorsey denies ousting forgotten founder, as he tells his side of Twitter's early story — With an upcoming IPO, Twitter has a vested interest in smoothing out people's perceptions of its founding story. So perhaps its no surprise to see a New Yorker profile on Jack Dorsey which gives …

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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.

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 …

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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
New York Times's Jill Abramson: ‘The First Amendment is first for a reason’

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Capital New York Hires Three Columnists As Relaunch Nears — Capital New York has been hiring up reporters to cover media and politics since Politico purchased the site last month, following the Beltway site's model of going big in signature beats before later branching out.

Discussion: The Wrap, FishbowlNY and @glynnmacn

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Vice CEO on old media: ‘They can go to hell quite frankly.’ — Shane Smith, CEO of Vice Media, talks about finding success online, his unorthodox approach to news and filming Dennis Rodman in North Korea. — FORTUNE — Born as an indie magazine, Vice Media has morphed …

Discussion: @snlevine and @markkola

Journalism.co.uk:

Ghost launches as publishing platform with writers in mind — The open source platform is released for download today with a hosted service scheduled for January 2014 — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

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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.