Mediagazer: FBI monitored anti-war website in error for six years, documents show (Spencer Ackerman/Guardian)

7:10 AM ET, November 7, 2013

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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) …

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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.

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

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.

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …

Discussion: Techdirt and Hit & Run

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

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, Forbes, The Technology Chronicles, Softpedia News, WebProNews, @samgustin and @corytv

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

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

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.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, FishbowlNY, Business Wire and AllThingsD

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

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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

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: Pitchfork, Publishing Executive …, 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: @waltmossberg, @digitalshields, @johnbattelle, @aileenlee, VatorNews, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch and mUmBRELLA

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 …

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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

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: The Week, @tommcilroy and CNN

Hayashi Kaori / Nippon:

Japan's Newspaper Industry: Calm Before the Storm … Last August the world's media were abuzz with the news that the venerable Washington Post was about to be sold to Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. It was the latest installment in a story of upheaval that has forced such American institutions …

Discussion: @feffrey and Kirk LaPointe's …