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2:15 PM ET, November 4, 2013

Top News:

With ‘Alpha House,’ Amazon Makes Bid for Living Room Screens and Beyond — Not long ago, I was on the set of a show about politics, Washington and a senator gone rogue. The set had all the trappings of a big-time television production, but it will be delivered not by broadcast or cable …

Discussion: Forbes, CNET, VideoNuze Analysis, @adamostrow, @brianstelter and The Next Web

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon' approach to find new TV hits could hold lessons for established media companies

Discussion: Digits, Variety, The Verge, @rmantri, @pkafka and @amolsharmawsj

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Mayer on the Talent Hunt for Tech Journalists (Even From AllThingsD!) — This weekend, a Yahoo recruiter tried to poach two of our fine AllThingsD reporters for what was described as a “new initiative within our Tech Vertical.” — According to the recruiter, who used LinkedIn for the outreach …

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Press Gazette:

Glenn Mulcaire never deleted Milly Dowler's voice mail, court told — The News of the World never deleted Milly Dowler's voice mail messages, a court has heard. — Continuing his opening address at the phone-hacking trial, Andrew Edis conceded there was no evidence to support the claim carried in The Guardian.

Discussion: Variety

Telegraph:

Rebekah Brooks and assistant ‘spirited away’ archived notebooks — Rebekah Brooks ordered the destruction of incriminating evidence when she was due to be arrested over phone hacking and corruption, the Old Bailey has heard. — Rebekah Brooks and her personal assistant removed seven archived boxes …

Discussion: Guardian, @courtnewsuk, Talking New Media and Press Gazette

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Texas Tribune is getting into sponsored content for a new online opinion section — The Texas Tribune will begin experimenting with sponsored content in 2014 with a site dedicated to both standard and paid opinion pieces. — TribTalk will be the Austin-based news nonprofit's answer …

Discussion: @niemanlab

Jim Romenesko:

Dayton Daily News memo: There will be nothing negative about CBS in our newspaper — In Dayton, Cox Media Group is integrating its print, TV (a CBS affiliate) and radio operations and using the slogan, “Come Together.” According to a memo that Dayton Daily News staffers received on Friday …

Discussion: @davidfolkenflik, @onthemedia and @romenesko

Journalism.org:

Twitter News Consumers: Young, Mobile and Educated — Nearly one-in-ten U.S. adults (8%) get news through Twitter, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Compared with the 30% of Americans who get news on Facebook …

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Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Power plays at Twitter: Jack, Ev, and the need to grow up (Q&A) — Talk about good timing. — This week, just as Twitter is about to carry out its long-awaited and highly anticipated IPO, here comes Nick Bilton's “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal …

Discussion: TechCrunch, AllThingsD and @jbruin

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Twitter Raises IPO Price Range And Analysts Approve — So much for Twitter being “the anti-Facebook” in its approach to going public. — The social messenging service has taken a page from its big blue rival, jacking up its price range in the final days before its share debut on the New York Stock Exchange.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, DealBook, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, New York Times, Variety and Talking Biz News

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Area comedian named Fishbowl DC editor — Patrick Tutwiler, a Washington-based comedian, has been named editor of the media news and gossip site Fishbowl DC, following Betsy Rothstein's departure. — “You may have seen one of his stand up acts around the District, or more recently …

Discussion: FishbowlDC and City Desk

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Is YouTube Too Big to Have a Really Big Show? — The best-case scenario for last night's YouTube Music Awards was that they would do something really cool with live music and live video that we haven't seen before. — And that's what they did, for the show's first six minutes.

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

What to do with $250m in digital journalism? — Pierre Omidyar, Ebay's founder and now philanthropist, pledged $250m to a new investigative reporting venture. Starting a project of this magnitude from scratch isn't an everyday occurrence, leading us to wonder how it could look like?

Discussion: Pressthink, Guardian, @dabeard and @raju