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8:55 AM ET, October 24, 2013

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Time Warner Cable Reaches Agreement to Distribute Al Jazeera America  —  Time Warner Cable, one of the country's biggest cable operators, has agreed to carry Al Jazeera America, giving the Qatar-owned broadcaster exposure to millions more households as it seeks to build an audience in the United States.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:   David Cay Johnston lands big, accessy profile of Glenn Greenwald for Newsweek
Alex Pham / Billboard:
YouTube preparing a $10/month premium on-demand music service, may come this year  —  YouTube Close to Launching Subscription Music Service (Breaking)  —  YouTube is preparing a premium on-demand music service — akin to a Spotify, but with video — to launch later this year, according to several sources familiar with the plans.
AllThingsD:
Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding — $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation (Confirmed)  —  According to several sources, Pinterest has completed another enormous funding, this time nabbing $225 million with late-stage investor Fidelity Investments in the lead.
Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Sued Over Pay, Condé Nast Ends Internship Program  —  For Lauren Indvik, a business editor and soon-to-be co-editor in chief at Fashionista, the 2008 internship at Vogue was worth every sacrifice.  —  The 15 pounds frantically lost in the weeks before the interview.
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
A Liberal Parts Ways With Fox  —  Sally Kohn, one of the Fox News Channel's most visible liberal pundits, parted ways with the network this week and turned up almost immediately on one of its rivals — MSNBC.  —  MSNBC wasted no time booking her Tuesday evening to discuss a commentary …
Jack Shafer:
Move over Bezos, ESPN can do news better than you  —  The pompous slogan, “The Worldwide Leader in Sports,” actually undersells ESPN's ultimate potential.  —  If the Bristol behemoth were a stand-alone company instead of a Walt Disney Co./Hearst Corporation co-venture …
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
How news sites are boosting ‘stickiness’ with personalisation  —  A look at how and why news outlets are offering personalisation across digital platforms, as well as some of the lessons and challenges to consider
Discussion: @niemanlab
Meranda Adams / 10,000 Words:
The Debate Rages On: Do Journalists Need To Code?  —  Do journalists need to know HTML?  What about CSS?  Javascript? ...  Python?  —  The debate rages on, with the flame fueled again this week by journalist Olga Khazan writing about how she resented the time she spent learning …
Jayme Poisson / Toronto Star:
Police may have watched Gawker ‘crack video’ meeting  —  Six officers from Toronto police's organized crime unit were watching suspected drug and gun dealer Mohamed Siad.  It was Tuesday, May 14, and police had learned Siad was to be involved in a possible firearms deal.
Erik Wemple:
Book: Fox News planted false information to discredit reporter, stifle bad news  —  Pity the journalist who wishes to write about Fox News.  It can be very dangerous.  —  In his new book “Murdoch's World,” NPR media reporter David Folkenflik documents one of the perils as part of a chapter …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
Tanzina Vega / New York Times:
Ad-Sponsored Editorial Content Draws Regulator's Notice  —  THE practice of native advertising, or the use of editorial content for promotional or marketing purposes, is beginning to capture the attention of advertising regulators who are concerned that some content could be considered deceptive to consumers.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Amazon's set-top box runs into further delays  —  Amazon has been been rushing to finalize and release a set-top box in time for the holidays, designed to compete directly with the Apple TV and Roku.  However, The Verge has learned that the company recently made the decision to delay the device, possibly beyond the holiday season.
Discussion: CNET, bizjournals, GeekWire and Electronista
Noah Hurowitz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Petition protests firing of AP staffers  —  Three employees were fired after a story was retracted, and the union that represented two of them is organizing opposition to the terminations  —  A petition surfaced online Tuesday calling for the reinstatement of three journalists fired …
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Christina Farr / VentureBeat:
Academia.edu acquires Plasmyd to bring peer review into the 21st century
Discussion: TechCrunch and CNET
Mark Bergen / India Ink:
India's Press Faces an Online Future
Thanks:@mhbergen
John Ourand / SportsBusiness Daily:
Twitter deal rankles some network execs
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
A.J. Daulerio out at SpinMedia
Discussion: hypebot
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“We want people to do their own thinking”: What Nate Silver's looking for at the new, ESPN-housed FiveThirtyEight
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Jonah Peretti: Don't worry about traffic
Discussion: WWD Media Headlines and FishbowlNY
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu Finally Brings Free Videos To Mobile - But It's Just Clips, And Only Works In The Browser (For Now?)
Discussion: Hulu Blog, WebProNews and Gigaom
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Palestinian leader's son appeals loss of Foreign Policy libel lawsuit
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Optimal and Civolution launch TV ad synchronisation on Facebook
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Netflix needs to invest in content to gain subscribers, but that hurts profit growth
Carol Loomis / Fortune:
Buffett: Why I didn't buy the Washington Post
Discussion: USA Today and FishbowlNY
Columbia Journalism Review:
On the NSA, the media may tilt right
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …