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12:50 PM 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.
Pew Research Journalism Project:
The Role of News on Facebook  —  Common yet Incidental  —  Overview  —  On Facebook, the largest social media platform, news is a common but incidental experience, according to an initiative of Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Bumping into the news: New Pew data shows Facebook users find news there, but don't seek it out
Discussion: Journalism.org and Forbes
Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT's Rick Berke to join POLITICO as executive editor  —  New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson just sent the following memo to staff: I have sad news.  Rick Berke is leaving The Times to become executive editor of Politico.  He's been a newsroom treasure in so many important roles …
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.
Discussion: @adamostrow and @aschweig
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.
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 …
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.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. to report first quarterly earnings as a new company on Nov. 11  —  The new News Corp. will report its first quarterly earnings as a standalone publishing entity on Monday, Nov. 11, the company announced today.  —  The results will reflect the first quarter of the 2014 fiscal year.
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
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Jim Dalrymple's Loop Magazine Reboots With Stunning Mobile Publishing Platform Glide  —  Five months ago, veteran Apple reporter Jim Dalrymple made a bet that people would want to pay two bucks to read articles about tech, music and more in a minimal iPad magazine.
Discussion: Folio
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
TiVo Launches Out-Of-Home Streaming From Roamio DVRs To Its Mobile App  —  The day new TiVo owners have been waiting for is finally here!  —  One of the big selling points of the new TiVo Roamio family of DVRs was the ability to connect it to the company's mobile apps and be able to stream …
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.
Discussion: Gawker
Jennifer Ablan / Reuters:
Icahn family's House of Cards: Father-son drama over Netflix stake  —  (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is so convinced he was right to sell some of his Netflix Inc stake that he made a big bet - possibly worth hundreds of millions of dollars - with his son Brett, who disagreed with the decision.
Discussion: @katyawachtel and @firstadopter
Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
McClatchy Co. reports lower third quarter earnings as advertising revenue drops  —  The McClatchy Co. today reported a decline in third quarter earnings as a continued drop in advertising revenue offset better-than-expected results from the Sacramento newspaper chain's digital initiatives.
Discussion: McClatchy, Poynter and bizjournals
Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:
China Box Office Surges 35 Percent to $2.7 Billion in First Nine Months of 2013  —  The figure is close to the full-year 2012 total of $2.8 billion as local Chinese films made big gains, but Hollywood and other imported foreign fare fell 5.2 percent.  —  China's box office take was $2.7 billion …
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 …
David Cay Johnston / Newsweek:
Glenn Greenwald and the Future of Leaks  —  Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer-turned-journalist-turned- global headline for his reporting on leaked NSA documents, says there is about to be a revolution that will radically change how news organizations cover governments and other big institutions.
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.
 
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Reuters:
China's Publishing Regulator Voices Concern For Detained Reporter
Discussion: BBC and Sinosphere
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Amazon's set-top box runs into further delays
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
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
A.J. Daulerio out at SpinMedia
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?)