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8:45 AM ET, October 31, 2013

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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
New press regulation system ‘entirely voluntary’, says Nick Clegg  —  Deputy PM dismisses claims of end to press freedom as ‘wild hyperbole’, saying no media outlet will be required to sign up  —  Newspapers will not be required to enter into the new system of press regulation agreed by the privy council ,Nick Clegg has said.
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New York Times Company:
The New York Times Company Reports 2013 Third-Quarter Results  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) announced an operating profit of $12.9 million in the third quarter of 2013 compared with $8.9 million in the same period of 2012.
Matt Buchanan / New Yorker:
Waiting for the Next Great Technology Critic  —  For well over a decade, the two most influential voices about consumer technology have been a sixty-six-year-old man who lives just outside of Washington, D.C. and a fifty-year-old man who resides in Westport, Connecticut.
Press Gazette:
News of the World hacked rival journalists as part of the ‘dog eat dog’ world of journalism  —  Glenn Mulcaire hacked the phones of rival journalists as a “nice easy and cheap” way of “scooping” the opposition, the phone hacking trial heard today.  —  Andrew Edis QC for the prosecution …
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Jim Romenesko:
‘Change is hard’: Consumer Reports restructures to survive in the digital era  —  Consumer Reports and Consumers Union, the policy and action division of the magazine, showed a hefty profit of $21,414,103 for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2008.  The next two years were profitable, too …
Discussion: Gigaom and @1bobcohn
Erik Wemple:
Just who is meddling with the Philadelphia Inquirer?  —  George E. Norcross III, part owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, likes data.  He is a prominent insurance executive and a massive force in New Jersey Democratic politics, not to mention the chairman of the board of trustees …
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Dave Davies / NewsWorks:
Katz rejects buyout offer, open to outside management of Inquirer
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
FT teams up with Japan's Nikkei  —  The Financial Times is forging close links with Japan's leading business media group, Nikkei, according to a memo on its website by the FT's editor, Lionel Barber.  —  He writes that the pink paper's latest Japan Special Report marks the start …
Discussion: Financial Times
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Digital subscriptions up 24% at Financial Times
Discussion: AdExchanger, Pearson and Guardian
Umberto Bacchi / International Business Times:
Saudi Journalist Tariq al-Mubarak Arrested over Support for Women Drive Ban Protest  —  About 60 women in Saudi Arabia openly flouted the law by driving through the streets (Reuters)  —  Human rights activists have urged Saudi authorities to release a local journalist who was arrested …
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
German Court Bans Internet ‘Throttling’ by Deutsche Telekom  —  Telekom's move to restrict broadband speeds would have made it nearly impossible for customers to use a VOD or IPTV platform other than its own Entertain service.  —  COLOGNE, Germany - A German court has ruled …
Discussion: Bloomberg, ZDNet and Engadget
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“We're still babies at it”: BuzzFeed Video's strategy relies on identity, emotion, and sharing content as communication  —  A year ago, Ze Frank — Internet “virologist,” creator of the beloved the show with zefrank, and online video pioneer — was tapped to head BuzzFeed's video department …
Discussion: @peretti, @niemanlab and @dskok
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Comcast could license tech to other U.S. cable operators: executive  —  (Reuters) - A top Comcast Corp executive said on Wednesday that the company is in talks to license its latest technology, called X1, to other cable operators, which would help the industry better compete with telecom and satellite rivals.
Discussion: FierceCable
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Comcast downplays Netflix talks, still adding broadband subscribers
Discussion: Capital New York
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Sony Blames Box-Office Trouble for Its Quarterly Loss  —  TOKYO — After showing signs of a financial turnaround in the spring, Sony said Thursday that it had swung back to a loss in the summer quarter, with strong sales of smartphones not enough to overcome a dismal performance by the company's Hollywood arm.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Variety
Steven Lee Myers / Lens:
In Russia, Conflating Journalism and ‘Hooliganism’  —  MOSCOW — “It was just a usual business trip for him,” Alina Zhiganova said, describing how her husband, the photographer Denis Sinyakov, set out in September to document Greenpeace International's voyage to protest oil exploration in the fragile environment of the Arctic Ocean.
 
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Abhrajit Gangopadhyay / Southeast Asia Real Time:
Court Ruling Seen as Win for Independent Media in Malaysia
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Chernin Group to Pay Less Than $100M for Majority Stake in Video Site Crunchyroll
Discussion: AllThingsD and Variety
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Forbes launches SafeSource for anonymous tips
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Former NYT and Reuters editor Jim Roberts talks about why he is joining Mashable
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Random House acquires Figment, the teen writing site founded by Condé Nast vets
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
This year, no star-studded lunch planned for Time ‘Person of the Year’ rollout
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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
ESPN mobile properties saw more unique visitors than ESPN.com in September for first time ever
Discussion: Poynter
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
‘PBS NewsHour’ has lost 48 percent of its audience in last 8 years
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Not even two weeks after shutdown, BitTorrent search site isoHunt is back
Discussion: Digital Spy and WebProNews
AllThingsD:
Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon
Olivia Petersen / Politico:
POLITICO to Launch ‘POLITICO Magazine’
Discussion: Digiday, Gigaom and @tanyapampalone
Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Greeks Question Media, and New Voices Pipe Up
Discussion: @peterfhart
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

 
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