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6:15 PM ET, November 6, 2013

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MarketWatch:
Blockbuster to End Domestic Retail, DVD By Mail Services  —  Blockbuster to close remaining U.S. company-owned stores, DVD By Mail services by early-January 2014  —  ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov 06, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) —Franchised and licensed stores in the U.S. and abroad to remain open for business
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Internet Kills the Video Store  —  Blockbuster, which had more than 9,000 retail stores across America nine short years ago, will close the few hundred video-rental stores that it still has, the company's owner, Dish Network, said Wednesday in a bittersweet but long-expected announcement.
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time Inc. Spinoff Timing Delayed  —  It looks like Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp will have some more time to prepare for the publisher's spinoff from Time Warner.  The split is now expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2014, Time Warner chairman Jeff Bewkes said during an earnings conference call.
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David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Jeff Bewkes: HBO's Streaming Deal With Comcast Won't Promote Cord Cutting  —  Time Warner startled a lot of people recently when it allowed the No. 1 cable operator to include HBO Go in a new $40 a month broadband service.  Wouldn't some consumers cancel their pay TV service if they found …
Discussion: The Verge and Gigaom
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Time Warner's Profit Tops Estimates as Network Revenue Gains
Discussion: Reuters
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Earnings: CBS Meets Q3 Expectations After Time Warner Cable Fight  —  CBS Corp. emerged from its third-quarter fight with Time Warner Cable matching Wall Street's earnings expectations.  —  CBS CEO Les Moonves told investors in a conference call that the success reflected CBS's emphasis on content.
Jack Marshall / Digiday:
How BuzzFeed Gives Native Ads a Traffic Boost  —  The story of modern media is wrapped up in this situation: “Native advertising” sometimes needs its own advertising for people to see it.  —  The problem with advertiser content on BuzzFeed and other publisher sites is that users just aren't always eager to consume it.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Michael Bloomberg's post-mayoral day-job will be at Bloomberg View  —  Michael Bloomberg is getting back into the media business.  —  The outgoing three-term mayor of New York is planning to return to his namesake Bloomberg L.P. in a role that will see him primarily involved in its online opinion offering …
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Tim Berners-Lee: encryption cracking by spy agencies ‘appalling and foolish’  —  Inventor of world wide web calls for debate about ‘dysfunctional and unaccountable’ oversight of NSA and GCHQ  —  Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist who created the world wide web, has called for a …
Discussion: @genn4dy
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
How geolocation is being used to promote magazine apps  —  Music Week is now free when downloaded from Abbey Road and The Gooner is free at the Emirates Stadium  —  Copyright: Image courtesy of Exact Editions  —  Exact Editions, which packages magazine apps for publishers …
Discussion: Exact Editions and @niemanlab
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Sunday People launches seven-day Buzzfeed-style website entirely funded by ‘native advertising’  —  Trinity Mirror today launched a stand-alone seven-day website for the Sunday People which is entirely funded by ‘native advertising’.  —  This means that the site will carry no display advertising …
Discussion: The Drum
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of the shopping of Press+ and the coming of Paywalls 2.0  —  In April 2009, when Journalism Online began operations, its business — providing the backend for websites offering different kinds of paywalls — was largely derided.  Two years later, when the company …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
TV Discovery Startup i.TV Acquires GetGlue In Second-Screen App Mashup  —  Provo, Utah-based video discovery startup i.TV has acquired GetGlue, we've learned, as consolidation in the market for second-screen or companion TV apps continues.  The acquisition, which is expected to be announced soon …
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The NYT paywall plugs the hole  —  Charting the state of The New York Times  —  Felix asks what my graph of New York Times digital revenue would look like including print ads.  —  Here's the original chart, which shows the paywall doubling NYT digital revenue in just over two years:
Discussion: @jamesrbuk and @niemanlab
Reuters:
Al Qaeda-Linked Militants Claim Murder Of French Journalists In Mali  —  Mauritanian news website Sahara Medias said on Wednesday it had received a claim from al Qaeda-linked militants for the killing at the weekend of two French journalists in northern Mali.
Discussion: Poynter
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Reporters Without Borders:   Mali - Dim prospects for media freedom in north after French journalists' murder
Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:
Mirror group newspapers ‘habitually used phone-hacking’ High Court documents released today claim  —  A senior Mirror Group journalist “regularly paid” £125 for mobile phone numbers and pin codes from a private detective, High Court documents lodged by the alleged victims released today claim.
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Press Association:
Mirror fails in bid to throw out phone-hacking cases
Politico:
Rand Paul meets with Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes  —  Sen. Rand Paul, who's made no secret of exploring a 2016 presidential run, recently met privately with News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and Fox News head Roger Ailes, POLITICO has learned.  —  The meetings — Paul sat down with each man separately …
Discussion: @tommcilroy
Thomas Grove / Reuters:
Russia apologizes to Norwegian journalists held on Olympic trip  —  (Reuters) - Russia apologized on Wednesday to two foreign journalists who were repeatedly questioned and detained by police during a trip to report on the 2014 Winter Olympics preparations in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Malin Rising / Associated Press:
Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating  —  Movies need to pass test that gauges the active presence of women on screen in bid to promote gender equality  —  You expect movie ratings to tell you whether a film contains nudity, sex, profanity or violence.
 
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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Al Jazeera America hires ‘Popular Science’ editor in chief Jacob Ward
Ken Bensinger / Los Angeles Times:
Sale of Riverside newspaper may be in jeopardy
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Japan's Newspaper Industry: Calm Before the Storm
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
The rise of Alicia Menendez, a voice for the millennials
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Shhh! Amazon Starts a Semi-Secret Digital Focus Group for Its Homegrown TV Shows and Movies.
Cassandra Vinograd / Associated Press:
David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's Partner, Challenges UK Detention In Court
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Jason Clampet / Skift:
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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Editor of The Sun: ‘BuzzFeed is the best thing on the internet’
Discussion: @hblodget and Press Gazette
David Zax / Fast Company:
A Black Media Brand Relaunches, While Sticking To Its Roots
Discussion: Media Wire Daily
Deadline.com:
Deadline.com And Nikki Finke Parting Ways
Bill Carter / New York Times:
CBS News Defends Its ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report