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3:20 AM ET, November 7, 2013

Top News:

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 Franchised and licensed stores in the U.S. and abroad to remain open for business ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE) …

Discussion: Bloomberg, FilmDrunk, Businessweek, VatorNews, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Corporate Intelligence, bizjournals, /Film, Betabeat, Online NewsHour and @adamthierer

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.

Discussion: AdAge, @daniel_jacobson, TeleRead, @adater, @mrbradchase, @johncfierce and @kevinselle

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

Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time Inc. Spinoff Timing Delayed

Discussion: BuzzFeed, FishbowlNY, Business Wire and AllThingsD

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Time Warner's Profit Tops Estimates as Network Revenue Gains

Discussion: Reuters and Los Angeles Times

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 the network's emphasis on content.

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Variety, @samgustin, Los Angeles Times, @emilysteel, PR Newswire, Capital New York, Forbes, Deadline.com and @jboorstin

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

THE COST OF WINNING: Tim Armstrong, Patch, And The Struggle To Save AOL — On an overcast Friday afternoon last August, a hundred or so employees of AOL's local news subsidiary, Patch, crammed into a cafeteria at the company's headquarters in Manhattan. Another several hundred connected to the room via conference call.

Discussion: @tomkrazit, @ivanthek, @thestalwart and @rgpelayo

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: CNET, BBC, Salon, @avilarenata and @genn4dy

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, @kevinroose, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @jamilsmith, @themarkberman and Talking Biz News

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Twitter announces IPO pricing of $26 per share with a valuation of $18.3 billion — Twitter announced on Wednesday that it will price its IPO at $26 per share when it begins trading on Thursday. The company plans to sell 70 million shares out of a total of 545 million outstanding shares.

Discussion: New York Times, @twitter, NetNewsCheck Latest, Forbes, Softpedia News, WebProNews, TechCrunch, @samgustin and @corytv

Sam Petulla / The Content Strategist:

Looking Past ‘The Prism Of Fear’: News Corp's Data Leader On the End of the Pageview Era — Remember when pageviews were the dominate metric of the Internet? Today, with publishers rapidly de-prioritizing page views, it's starting to feel like an artifact of bygone days of the web, when “Mobile” was just a city down south.

Discussion: @raju

Ben Cardew / Guardian:

Pitchfork Weekly - a digital magazine paying homage to the past — The new Android and iOS app is a weekly digital magazine of the music website that's part of a trend of emulating print rivals — Music press lovers: are you feeling nostalgic for the days of inky fingers …

Discussion: Publishing Executive …, Pitchfork, Audience Development and hypebot

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Pinterest Hires San Francisco Chronicle President Joanne Bradford to Lead Advertiser and Media Partnerships (Updated) — If Pinterest's recent advertising test with “promoted pins” wasn't a clear enough sign that it's ready to generate some revenue, its latest hire surely is.

Discussion: @johnbattelle, VatorNews, @digitalshields, @aileenlee, San Francisco Chronicle, @waltmossberg, TechCrunch and mUmBRELLA

Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:

British Library national newspaper archive in Colindale closing on Friday after 82 years — The national newspaper collection is moving on Friday from its home in Colindale to a new purpose built building in Yorkshire. — The new building will have a special low-oxygen storage area that will prevent fire.

Discussion: Guardian

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Nikki Finke Out for Blood at New Homepage — Nikki Finke's new site will be out for blood — if its new intro page is any indication. — “NikkiFinke.com is coming to Hollywood,” reads the site, which for now is just a homepage teaser. “Come for the cynicism. Stay for the subversion.

Discussion: Variety and @nikkifinke

Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:

Nexstar to Acquire Seven Grant Stations For $87.5 Million — WFXR Roanoke, WZDX Huntsville among the stations growing broadcast group to pick up — Nexstar Broadcasting Group has agreed to acquire seven TV stations from Grant Company for $87.5 million. Simultaneous with that agreement …

Discussion: Radio & Television … and TVNewsCheck.com

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.

Discussion: @raju, @juliancole, @jbenton, @antderosa and @digiday

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

Nicole Levy / Capital New York:

Al Jazeera America hires ‘Popular Science’ editor in chief Jacob Ward — Screen cap via Vimeo — Popular Science's Jacob Ward is leaving the magazine to join Al Jazeera America as the channel's science and technology news correspondent, the television channel announced today.

Discussion: @nbj914

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 …

Discussion: Yahoo! Finance and Big News Network.com

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.