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12:20 PM ET, November 4, 2013

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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 …
David Carr / New York Times:
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 …
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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
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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 …
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
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.
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
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 …
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.
Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
Ray Suarez Joins Al Jazeera America To Host ‘Inside Story’  —  Former PBS journalist Ray Suarez will join Al Jazeera as the new host of “Inside Story,” Suarez announced in a tweet on Monday. … Earlier in October, Suarez announced that he was leaving PBS after 14 years on the network's flagship “Newshour.”
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
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
For Modern Farmer, farm stands hold more promise than newsstands  —  When Modern Farmer launched its GoatCam in September, Editor-in-chief Ann Marie Gardner was surprised to hear from people working at the Pentagon.  —  “They had a suggestion for changing the angle of the camera …
Discussion: @poynter
 
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Claudia Buck / Sacramento Bee:
Sacramento Press, community's online newspaper, is sold to new owner
Discussion: @joshdmorg and Sacramento Press
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John Paul Titlow / Co.Labs:
The future of storytelling is a combination of text, moving images and interactive elements …
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
YouTube to charge TV networks the same 45% of ad revenues it charges other content producers, ending favorable terms
Discussion: @petersontee