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8:20 AM ET, October 16, 2013

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BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization  —  Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and blogger who brought the Guardian the biggest scoop of the decade, is departing the London-based news organization, for a brand new, large-scale, broadly-focused media outlet, he told BuzzFeed Tuesday.
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture  —  (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian newspaper to join a new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar …
PandoDaily:
$40-million round for Vox seals it: Venture capital likes media  —  Vox's new mega-round puts a bow on content's holy-s**t moment  —  Today it was revealed that Vox Media, owner of The Verge, SB Nation, and Polygon has raised another $40 million of funding.
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Why Accel Is Leading A $40M Round In Vox Media, A Digital Content Company (!)  —  “At some level, it is still contrarian,” Accel Partners' Andrew Braccia admits about leading a $40 million fourth round of funding in Vox Media, the publisher of hundreds of major league sports fan blogs …
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Expand Video Business
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Twitter's changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to take advantage  —  Twitter is changing an old policy that meant that you could only be DM'd by — that is, you could only receive a direct message from — users that you follow.  (So if I follow John Doe …
Discussion: Mashable and Pocket-lint
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
This just in: why news is Twitter's next frontier
Discussion: @mcproulx
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC to Name Head of VOD Service, Treat It Like Fifth TV Channel  —  Director of television Danny Cohen discusses possible on-demand offers, expected cost cuts and when broadband delivery of content may supersede broadcasting in the U.K.  —  LONDON - The BBC is planning to name a controller …
Discussion: Guardian
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Earnings and Revenue Down — Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Third Quarter  —  Yahoo met weak financial expectations, turning in what can only be described as lackluster performance in its third-quarter earnings report today.  —  The Silicon Valley Internet giant said it earned 34 cents …
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Marvel Preps 60-Episode Package Of Four Series & A Mini For VOD & Cable Networks  —  EXCLUSIVE: The notorious secrecy that surrounds Marvel's projects has been heightened to the nth degree for this one.  No one would breathe a word, with rumors that everyone from top to bottom is bound …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Report: Stories about politics inspire best, worst comments  —  Researchers from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) spoke with online editors and community managers at 104 news organizations from 63 countries to help assemble a report written by Emma Goodman …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
AdAge:
Effort to Split Murdoch From Chairman Role Resumes at 21st Century Fox  —  Similar Drives Have Fallen Short Before  —  21st Century Fox Inc. investors backing a resolution to strip the chairman job from CEO Rupert Murdoch said they have won the support of shareholder-advisory firm Glass, Lewis & Co.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
FilmOn Threatened With Contempt of Court  —  A district court judge on Tuesday threatened to find FilmOn X in contempt of court for beginning to air network affiliates from Boston despite her injunction barring the company from airing network stations outside New York and Massachusetts.
Ben Quinn / Guardian:
New York Times editor defends journalists over Snowden leaks  —  Jill Abramson says on BBC's Newsnight that Guardian articles on NSA files are ‘very much in the public interest’  —  Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, has mounted a defence of the ability of journalists …
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Can Journalists Cut It as CEOs?  —  Reporters are notorious procrastinators, cynical to the core, often disorganized and frequently drunk.  Sounds like CEO material.  —  But there are exceptions to the crude stereotype above.  On Sunday, Jim VandeHei, co-founder and executive editor …
Discussion: @digiday and @juliemmoos
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Brent Lang / The Wrap:   Politico CEO Jim VandeHei Talks Capital New York Relaunch, Jeff Bezos' WaPo Purchase
Tim Masters / BBC:
Man Booker Prize: Eleanor Catton becomes youngest winner with The Luminaries  —  Eleanor Catton began writing her winning novel when she was 25  —  New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has, at the age of 28, become the youngest ever winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries.
Ellen Hammett / MediaTel:
Nielsen launches ‘multi-screen ad measurement’ in UK  —  Nielsen has today announced what is being described as a major step forward for multi-platform advertising measurement in the UK, with the launch of Nielsen Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings.  —  By combining Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings …
Discussion: Media Week and Guardian
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Acuerdo: Long-form journalism for ‘pissed-off readers’  —  The ‘journalistic start-up’ and ‘innovations lab’ is looking to incorporate numerous elements of digital journalism into a bi-monthly, tablet-first edition  —  Copyright: Image by John.Karakatsanis on Flickr.  Some rights reserved
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Univision to Debut ‘Flama,’ Its First Online-Only Video Network, on YouTube
Discussion: VideoInk and Tubefilter
Karen Fratti / 10,000 Words:
CIR Reaches Out To New Audiences With ‘Redaction’ Campaign
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Viral Content With a Liberal Bent
Thanks:@joshluger
Sally McGrane / New Yorker:
Crowdsourcing Tolstoy  —  When Leo Tolstoy's great-great-granddaughter …
Discussion: @dhanyamadhavann
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Uri Friedman Named Global Editor of TheAtlantic.com
Discussion: @natalieraabe and FishbowlDC
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Adam Goldman, Pulitzer-Winning Associated Press Reporter, Joins Washington Post
Discussion: The New York Observer and Politico
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘IHT’ publisher gets a promotion as ‘International New York Times’ debuts
Discussion: Poynter, @joepompeo, FRANCE 24 and Poynter
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The New Republic Asks Its Reporters To Sell Subscriptions
Discussion: FishbowlNY