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8:55 PM ET, October 25, 2013

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Bloomberg:
DirecTV, Time Warner Cable Said to Consider Aereo-Type Services  —  DirecTV (DTV), Time Warner Cable (TWC) Inc. and Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR), taking a page from Aereo Inc., are considering capturing free broadcast signals from TV networks to avoid paying billions of dollars …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Aereo Hit With Second Lawsuit in Utah  —  The company tells a judge not to let TV broadcasters bully “on litigation cost, rather than the merits” of copyright claims.  —  Aereo is backed by Barry Diller  —  The latest in the Aereo legal front...  Nextar Broadcasting …
Capital New York:
Atlantic Wire to relaunch, with a new(-ish) name: The Wire  —  Atlantic Media is gearing up for a relaunch of its prodigious news aggregator, The Atlantic Wire, Capital has learned.  —  As part of the change, which is slated for sometime in November, the site will shed its titular association …
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media  —  With General Alexander calling for NSA reporting to be halted, US and UK credibility as guardians of press freedom is crushed  —  The most under-discussed aspect of the NSA story has long been its international scope.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
NSA chief: Stop reporters ‘selling’ spy documents
Publishers Weekly:
Kirshbaum to Leave Amazon Publishing  —  Amazon has confirmed to PW a story in Friday's Shelf Awareness that Larry Kirshbaum will step down as head of Amazon Publishing's general publishing program early next year.  Amazon said Kirshbaum's last day will be January 17 and that he plans to return to agenting.
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
YouTube Takes on The News  —  Much like the Google News homepage, YouTube's news channel aggregates video news content from some of the biggest - and smallest - broadcasters on earth.  Also, like Google News, the channel does not actually produce its own journalism.
Karis Hustad / Christian Science Monitor:
Kickstarting journalism: Is crowdfunding the answer?  —  Outlets from National Public Radio to ProPublica have turned to crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Spot.Us to help solve journalism's funding woes and make a bit of online buzz.  But is this solution sustainable?
Discussion: @ajsummit
Noah Rayman / TIME:
Pinterest Deal with Getty Helps ID Images Posted to the Site  —  Pinterest announced a deal Friday with stock photo agency Getty Images that will allow it to identify which of the agency's 80 million photos and illustrations are being used on the digital scrapbooking site.
Discussion: CNET, Mashable and The Verge
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Comcast's latest bundle, Internet Plus, still requires you to pay for TV to receive HBO  —  Dear Internet: You Still Can't Get HBO Without Paying for Cable  —  Lots of people who read sites like this site love the idea of paying for HBO without paying for cable.
Discussion: Reuters, Variety, CNET and ThinkProgress
Tim Wu / New Yorker:
Is Ad Avoidance a Problem?  —  Back in the twentieth century, people were roughly equal in their power to avoid advertising.  Only desert hermits and commune dwellers could truly live ad-free.  But today, many people cheerfully claim to be total ad-avoiders, and it has become possible …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu Hires Disney's Elaine Paul as CFO  —  Internet TV joint venture's current CFO, Tom Fuelling, will leave the company  —  Newly appointed Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins has made his first senior hire: Elaine Paul, previously head of strategy and business development at Disney …
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
FX, Turner, and Netflix Face Off in a Battle of the Binge  —  Let's say that your friends have become increasingly obsessed with a new TV show that's already on episode eleven of a thirteen-episode season.  You finally realize that you are missing out on something great and want to quickly catch …
Discussion: @nymag
 
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Associated Press:
Moroccan editor jailed on terrorism charges released on bail, still faces charges
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
MTV Releases Show's Whole Season on App - a Week Before It Premieres
Craig Douglas / Boston Business Journal:
Judge orders NY Times to set aside all Globe proceeds until class action is resolved
Discussion: Boston Globe
 Earlier Picks: 
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
The Decline of Wikipedia  —  The sixth most widely used website …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Publishers Confront Digital at Conference: ‘Magazines Are the Original Native Ads’
Josh Kron / New York Times:
Kenya Assails Coverage of an Attack on a Mall
Charlie Smith / Georgia Straight:
Postmedia could sell more buildings to keep newspaper chain afloat
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Chris Hughes: ‘The New Republic’ will be in print for as long as there is a postal service
Discussion: @jaredbkeller and @losowsky
Brian Fung / The Switch:
Inside former NSA chief Michael Hayden's ‘interview’ with an Amtrak live-tweeter