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10:40 AM ET, November 14, 2013

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New York Times:
Stand-Alone Food Section Faces Demise in Bay Area  —  In the food-obsessed Bay Area, The San Francisco Chronicle's food section has been as much of a city institution as the cable car, and to many San Franciscans, more useful.  Over the years it has won many awards and developed a dedicated following.
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Jack Shafer:
Your ‘exclusive’ interview isn't  —  The journalistic lexicon abounds with terms designed to keep reporters' and editors' egos as plump, firm and purple as a ripe eggplant.  If a dowdy news account needs dressing up, they rush to wardrobe to wrap it in the “special report” designation.
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
Roku, AOL To Co-Launch News Channel  —  Consumers' shifting content viewing habits continues to make strange bedfellows.  On Thursday, AOL and set-top-box start-up Roku are expected to co-launch a news channel.  —  Produced by AOL's editorial team, the video channel will reside …
Discussion: Gigaom, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Arianna Huffington Talks International Expansion  —  The Huffington Post has been on a whirlwind of international expansion.  Today, 40 percent of its audience comes from outside the U.S., and according to its namesake president and editor in chief, more than half of the world's GDP has its own HuffPost.
Discussion: The Wrap
Susan Glasser / Politico:
Introducing POLITICO Magazine  —  Welcome to Politico Magazine!  For nearly seven years, Politico has aimed to drive the Washington conversation with an urgency, smarts and digital-era metabolism that has helped reinvent political news.  On the day I am writing this, an organization …
Discussion: Poynter and NetNewsCheck Latest
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Upworthy: Clickbait With a Conscience  —  The latest viral wizard of the Web matches smart technology and lily-white earnestness to market “stuff that matters” online, and the Gates Foundation is buying.  —  The first blockbuster hit came from an unlikely source: Irish talk radio.
Discussion: @tomgara
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
No, Nick Denton is not buying Business Insider — but he admits that he has thought about it  —  The idea of of Nick Denton's Gawker network merging or acquiring Henry Blodget's Business Insider site came up recently after the two were seen having breakfast at Balthazar's restaurant in New York …
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Dylan Love / Business Insider:   Gawker Chief Nick Denton Says He Has A Cure For Internet Trolls
Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:
BuzzFeed's all-positive books section  —  It doesn't make sense to pledge positivity if your aim is to provide readers with critics' takes on new books.  It makes more sense if your aim is to cultivate a thriving community.  —  Last week, BuzzFeed's new books editor, Isaac Fitzgerald …
Discussion: @abeaujon
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Google prevails over authors in digital books case  —  (Reuters) - Google Inc on Thursday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by authors who accused it of digitally copying millions of books for an online library without permission.  —  U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan accepted Google's argument …
Discussion: Gigaom and Talking New Media
Jason Lynch / Quartz:
Why Amazon, bucking the Netflix strategy, won't release its original series all at once  —  The battle for streaming supremacy heats up again on Friday Nov. 15, when Amazon launches its first original series, Alpha House, the story of four senators who rent a house together in Washington …
Pew Research Journalism Project:
News Use Across Social Media Platforms  —  How do different social networking websites stack up when it comes to news?  How many people engage with news across multiple social sites?  And what are their news consumption habits on traditional platforms?  As part of an ongoing examination …
Discussion: @pewresearch
Jeremy Fleming / EurActiv:
TV, film industry pledge easier cross-border copyright  —  European consumers should find it easier to access television and films from their home state when travelling through the continent if pledges made by the audiovisual sector to the Commission yesterday (13 November) are honoured.
Arif Durrani / Media Week:
Trinity Mirror posts 68% lift in digital audience but financial losses continue  —  Trinity Mirror, the national and regional publisher, has reported a 68% lift in its digital audience following its One Trinity Mirror transformation strategy last year, but circulation and advertising revenues continue to fall in its last four months.
Discussion: Guardian and Guardian
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Parade Slowly Marches Into the Digital Era  —  The self-styled “most widely read magazine” in the country has a traffic problem.  —  Parade, a 72-year-old publication that's inserted in about 700 newspapers across the country, boasts a circulation of 32 million.  But guaranteed circulation is one thing.
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Charter Unveils Digital Service in Bid to Regain TV Subscribers  —  Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR), looking to shrug off an industrywide decline in cable-TV subscribers, is introducing a digital version of its service under a new brand.  —  The company will start selling the digital-TV …
American Press Institute:
Understanding the rise of sponsored content  —  In recent years news publishers have grappled with an uncomfortable realization: The traditional revenue streams of display advertising and reader subscriptions may not be sufficient to support them in a digital age.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Verizon Stocks Up on “TV Everywhere” Tech by Buying upLynk  —  Verizon has been talking to Intel about buying the chipmaker's Web TV business.  But in the meantime, it is buying other digital TV tech: The telco says it has purchased upLynk, a startup that makes it easier to stream video on the Web.
Discussion: PR Newswire and VideoNuze Analysis
Suzanne Franks / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Data from the U.K.: The gender imbalance in newspapers is real, and both vertical and horizontal  —  Journalism is changing, and so is the role of women in the workplace.  But the two are not always evolving in harmony.  Women substantially outnumber men in journalism training and enter the profession in …
Discussion: @coagreform and The Conversation
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Pulitzer winner Bennett leaving Bloomberg  —  Amanda Bennett, former executive editor for projects and investigations at Bloomberg News, is leaving the news organization.  —  She had been editor at large for several months after Bob Blau took over the projects and investigations team this summer.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Associated Press:
Library of Congress to preserve public broadcasting archive with recordings from 120 stations  —  WASHINGTON — A collection of public broadcast recordings from radio and television dating to the 1950s will be preserved at the Library of Congress.  —  Under a project funded by the Corporation …
John Reynolds / Guardian:
Vice Media's UK profits down after investment  —  Multimedia content company's revenues rose last year, but bottom line dips after video launches and i-D takeover  —  Vice Media, the multimedia content company that recently sold a stake to Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Endemol to Invest $40 Mil to Build Out Premium Online Video Network  —  Production company to distribute content to YouTube, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Dailymotion  —  Endemol, the TV production company whose properties include “Big Brother,” said it will spend up to 30 million euros ($40 million U.S.) …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom Quarterly Earnings Rise as Film Unit Profit Soars 49 Percent  —  The entertainment company, led by CEO Philippe Dauman, also saw operating profit rise 11 percent in its TV networks unit.  —  Entertainment conglomerate Viacom on Thursday reported improved financials for its fiscal fourth quarter …
Erik Wemple:
Another CBS News story comes under attack  —  There may never be a more classic line in the pantheon of empty boasts by competitive news organizations.  On Monday night, CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson came up with what looked like a significant story: “Memo warned of “limitless” …
Michael Rondon / FOLIO:
The Hollywood Reporter Breaks Out New Style Vertical  —  Pret-a-Reporter to feature contextualized ecommerce integration.  —  The Hollywood Reporter has been aggressively expanding its product portfolio over the last eight months.  The group launched tech and indie channels in the spring …
 
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Erik Wemple:
Hey, what about Politico's ‘brain drain’?
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Questions about ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi story go beyond Dylan Davies interview; CBS conducting ‘journalistic review’
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS Corp. CEO Talks Time Warner Cable Dispute, Netflix Competition
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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
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