Mediagazer: Startup Book Publisher Unbound Raises $2M For Kickstarter For Authors Platform (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

2:45 PM ET, October 22, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

AP Fires Third Employee Over Terry McAuliffe Mistake; Guild ‘Alarmed’ — NEW YORK — The guild that represents employees of The Associated Press responded Tuesday to the recent firing of journalists involved in a retracted story about Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, saying the employees' rights were violated.

Erik Wemple:
AP owes public a better explanation of McAuliffe mistake

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlDC and The Newspaper Guild

Aaron Nicodemus / Worcester Telegram & Gazette:

Judge blocks sale of Telegram, Globe to Red Sox owner — WORCESTER — A Worcester Superior Court judge has temporarily put the brakes on the proposed sale of The Boston Globe and Telegram & Gazette to Red Sox owner John W. Henry. — Judge Shannon Frison issued a temporary restraining order that stalled the sale Friday.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @dabeard, @martinepowers, @bostonangela and cir.ca

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

David Pogue On Why He's Joining Yahoo: 'I'm A Giant Vat Of Creative Juices' — Gadget guru David Pogue dropped a sizable surprise bomb Monday when he announced that he's leaving The New York Times after 13 years to go work for Yahoo. Pogue's column, “State of the Art,” and his blog …

Discussion: Wired, @niemanlab, Valleywag, @pogue, @moorehn, @max_read, @futureboy, Mediaite, ZDNet, Business Insider, VatorNews, VentureBeat, GeekWire and Businessweek

Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg:

Apple Preparing 65-Inch TV for Release in 2014, Analyst Says — Apple Inc. (AAPL) will probably start selling ultra-high definition televisions with 65- and 55-inch screens during the fourth quarter of next year, according to a Tokyo-based analyst at Advanced Research Japan Co.

Discussion: MacRumors, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Geeky Gadgets, @carr2n, ValueWalk, Network World and Softpedia News

Jonathan Freedland / Guardian:

Facebook has got it spectacularly wrong on beheading videos — So now we know. In Facebook's world, a beheading is OK but an exposed nipple is not. The social media behemoth has decided that a 13-year-old - for that is the permitted minimum age of a Facebook user - can watch a video of a decapitation …

Discussion: Forbes, CNNMoney.com, BBC, @guardian, Slate, The Independent, Daily Mail, Inquirer, Telegraph, Sky News, @reftpt, The Week UK, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Neon Tommy, Guardian, @maajidnawaz, The Republic, @freedland, Kirk LaPointe's …, CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, Memex 1.1 and Boing Boing

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Staff of Washington Post Bids Farewell to Grahams — WASHINGTON — The Graham family said goodbye to The Washington Post after eight decades of ownership with an emotional send-off reception on Monday night for roughly 650 current and former employees at its downtown headquarters.

Discussion: @steph_steinberg, @pierrefitter and @romenesko

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

The Atlantic: Can We Stop Talking About the Scientology Thing? — The Atlantic wants you to stop talking about its Scientology native ad imbroglio. Like, really, get over it. — “It's been 10 months now, and it's still being brought up,” Scott Havens, president of the Atlantic …

Discussion: @nycjim and @niemanlab

Reuters:

BSkyB signs deal with Twitter to show Champions League clips — Britain's dominant pay-TV provider BSkyB has struck a deal with social networking site Twitter to show clips from European Champions League soccer matches to help promote its new contract-free online service.

Discussion: The Next Web, Rapid TV News, Telegraph and Financial Times

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Startup Book Publisher Unbound Raises $2M For Kickstarter For Authors Platform — Just as crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding has taken off in recent years, it was clear this model was seeping into many other areas of business. One small startup that latched onto the model was Unbound …

Greg Toppo / USA Today:

Chalkbeat covers education as a non-profit news site — A handful of refugees from print journalism are providing an alternative model for covering state and local schools. — CONNECT — Here's a phrase you don't hear much: newsroom expansion. — That's the goal of a new non-profit …

Discussion: @danoshinsky, @davidepstein, @patrick_wall, @joeygarrison, @chendrie and @anniekarni

Reuters:

U.S. high court declines to hear privacy lawsuit against Thomson Reuters — (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether a unit of Thomson Reuters Corp can obtain and sell information on drivers provided by state agencies without violating a federal privacy law.

Discussion: @joshua_roberts_ and @antderosa

Associated Press:

Associated Press CEO: Press freedom v. security a ‘false choice’ — DENVER — Governments that try to force citizens to decide between a free press and national security create a “false choice” that weakens democracy, and journalists must fight increasing government overreach …

Discussion: TheBlaze.com