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9:30 AM ET, October 31, 2013

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Times Co. Reports Quarterly Loss After Sale of Globe  —  The New York Times Company reported on Thursday a net loss in the third quarter, driven mainly by the company's recent sale of the New England Media Group, which included The Boston Globe.  Digital circulation gains helped produce a slight increase in overall revenue.
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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.
Discussion: @zseward
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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Reuters:
Emails revealed phone-hacking at Murdoch tabloid, court hears  —  (Reuters) - The phone-hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch's media company burst into the open after the firm handed over three internal emails showing how to tap into the phones of senior politicians and royalty, a London court heard on Thursday.
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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Newspapers' bid for injunction against press regulation royal charter fails
Discussion: @marksweney, Telegraph and Telegraph
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.
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
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time Inc. Signs on With Flipboard  —  No. 1 magazine publisher Time Inc. announced plans to put its magazine content on Flipboard.  People and InStyle will roll out this week on the mobile news aggregator app, with Time and Fortune scheduled to follow in December.
Discussion: The Next Web and @time_inc
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
PC World:
Copyright levy for ISPs violates EU regulation, Belgian government says  —  A plan by the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers to make ISPs pay copyright levies for offering access to copyright-protected material online violates the European e-commerce directive, a Belgian government spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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 …
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
BBC:
Syria: Kidnapped Polish journalist escapes from captors  —  A Polish photojournalist kidnapped in Syria three months ago is home after escaping from his captors, Poland's foreign ministry has announced.  —  Marcin Suder was abducted by masked gunmen in north-western Syria in July.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Cable Drops 306,000 TV Subs, In Part Because of CBS Blackout  —  MSO also cuts full-year revenue growth forecast after subscriber losses  —  A monthlong blackout of CBS for Time Warner Cable customers in key markets led the cable operator to lose more residential video subscribers …
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
 
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Roxanne Cooper / The Raw Story:
Village Voice editor Tony Ortega to helm editorial at Raw Story
Discussion: @rawstory
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Sony Blames Box-Office Trouble for Its Quarterly Loss
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Variety
Steven Lee Myers / Lens:
In Russia, Conflating Journalism and ‘Hooliganism’
Discussion: @greenpeace
Abhrajit Gangopadhyay / Southeast Asia Real Time:
Court Ruling Seen as Win for Independent Media in Malaysia
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Comcast could license tech to other U.S. cable operators: executive
Discussion: FierceCable
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
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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
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
AllThingsD:
Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon