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8:30 AM ET, November 7, 2013

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DISH Network:
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) …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Rand Paul moves to Breitbart  —  Just one day after The Washington Times ended Sen. Rand Paul's column over plagiarism charges, the Kentucky Republican's musings have found a new home at Breitbart.com.  —  With no mention of the plagiarism controversy currently surrounding the senator …
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Politico:
Rand Paul meets with Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes
Discussion: The Week, @tommcilroy and CNN
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 …
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.
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC's loss-making Lonely Planet deal under fire  —  Trust criticises BBC Worldwide over acquisition and later sale of travel guide business resulting in £80m deficit  —  The BBC Trust has published a highly critical report of the corporation's loss-making purchase of Lonely Planet …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
New FCC chair was industry lobbyist, but might not be industry shill  —  Wheeler appoints consumer advocate to key post, says competition is good.  —  Tom Wheeler was sworn in as chairman of the Federal Communications this week after being nominated by President Obama and unanimously approved by the US Senate.
Discussion: Light Reading and Variety
Erik Wemple:
The Philadelphia Inquirer is melting down  —  The brawl over the Philadelphia Inquirer isn't good for the Philadelphia Inquirer.  It is, however, an amazing story, one that just got a touch more contentious this afternoon.  —  Bill Ross, the outspoken executive director of Philadelphia's Newspaper Guild …
Discussion: Philly.com
Paul Bibby / Sydney Morning Herald:
2Day FM faces tough penalties after losing court battle over royal prank call  —  Radio station 2Day FM has failed in an attempt to stymie an investigation by the communications watchdog into the royal prank call incident.  —  The decision paves the way for a finding that the station broke …
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Tweet 16: News Outlets' Twitter Tone Skews Young  —  OMG!!!  Why do big media companies sound like teenagers on Twitter  —  “OMG @OneDirection's new song leaked!” might sound like something a giddy tween would tweet, but it was actually tweeted by the Daily News's official account.
Discussion: @petersterne and ZDNet
Biz Carson / Wired:
Uncensored Instagrams From North Korea Buck Brutal Trend of Secrecy  —  WIRED.com © 2013 Condé Nast.  All rights reserved.  Use of this Site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (effective 3/21/12) and Privacy Policy (effective 3/21/12).  Your California Privacy Rights.
Discussion: TheAustralian
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
FBI monitored anti-war website in error for six years, documents show  —  Monitoring began after antiwar.com editor passed along to the bureau a threat he received against his own website  —  The FBI monitored a prominent anti-war website for years, in part because agents mistakenly believed …
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Publishers lodge appeal over ruling against judicial review of royal charter  —  Industry takes case to court of appeal after high court rejected its application for an emergency injunction over new press regulator  —  Newspaper and magazine publishers have lodged an appeal …
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Rieder: ‘Business Insider’ goes long on journalism  —  Quirky website Business Insider plans a foray into the time-consuming but rewarding art.  —  CONNECT  —  One of the most intriguing aspects of the evolution of digital journalism is watching sites that spend much of their energy chasing …
Associated Press:
Greek police oust workers occupying headquarters of defunct state broadcaster  —  ATHENS, Greece — In a pre-dawn swoop Thursday, Greek riot police ended a nearly five-month protest by sacked workers broadcasting from what was once the headquarters of the defunct ERT state broadcaster, removing a few dozen people occupying the complex.
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
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: @colvinius and Guardian
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.
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 …
 
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Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Nexstar to Acquire Seven Grant Stations For $87.5 Million
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Al Jazeera America hires ‘Popular Science’ editor in chief Jacob Ward
Discussion: @nbj914
Ken Bensinger / Los Angeles Times:
Sale of Riverside newspaper may be in jeopardy
Discussion: AllGov, The Breakdown and @jbenton
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Reuters:
Al Qaeda-Linked Militants Claim Murder Of French Journalists In Mali
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
The rise of Alicia Menendez, a voice for the millennials
Discussion: The Huffington Post and @charli
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of the shopping of Press+ and the coming of Paywalls 2.0
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
How geolocation is being used to promote magazine apps
Discussion: Exact Editions and @niemanlab