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5:40 PM ET, October 14, 2013

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
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 …
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Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
International Herald Tribune: the paper of the American abroad
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.
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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.
Discussion: @filloux and Talking Biz News
Anna Prior / Wall Street Journal:
Demand Media CEO, Chairman Resigns  —  Demand Media Inc. (DMD) said its board has accepted the resignation of Chief Executive and Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, and has appointed an interim CEO as it begins the search for a permanent replacement shortly and evaluates the timing of its spin-off plan.
Discussion: Demand Media and AllThingsD
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.
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 …
Discussion: @juliebosman and @romenesko
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 …
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.
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
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Passing the hat for journalists  —  On Sept. 30, Jina Moore, a senior nonfiction editor at Guernica magazine, made a plea to her friends and contacts: Please give Guernica money.  —  Since its founding in 2004, the non-profit, bi-weekly online journal covering the arts …
Discussion: Longreads
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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