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3:50 PM ET, December 9, 2013

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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Time Warner Cable to add another app platform: Apple TV?  —  NEW YORK — Time Warner Cable incoming Chief Executive Rob Marcus said the company this week will add another platform to the list that can access its TWC TV app, which enables subscribers to stream live channels and watch videos on demand.
Discussion: The Verge and Variety
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Reuters:
Time Warner Cable incoming CEO says in no rush to sell company
Discussion: Gigaom and AdAge
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million To Close Out Its Series C Round  —  Flipboard has confirmed that it raised an additional $50 million, which will close out the Series C round of financing that it brought on in September.  In addition to the new funding, Flipboard is also announcing …
Discussion: Forbes and AllThingsD
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Layoffs ahead at Time Inc.  —  Time Inc. staffers were informed today that layoffs lie ahead in the New Year, Capital has learned.  —  The publishing giant has implemented cuts in recent years while aiming to rein in costs.  Just under a year ago, 500 jobs were slashed from the company …
Discussion: @tmcgev and The Huffington Post
Courthouse News Service:
NYT reporters sue Homeland Security for files on their interrogations at JFK airport this year  —  Homeland Security Stiffs Times Reporters  —  MANHATTAN (CN) - Two New York Times reporters sued the Department of Homeland Security for records on their interrogations at JFK Airport this year.
Discussion: @emptywheel and @freedomofpress
Naomi Sharp / Columbia Journalism Review:
The future of longform  —  A conference at the Columbia Journalism School explored the craft's digital prospects  —  When readers started moving to the internet, media analysts thought longform journalism was in trouble.  Attention spans were going to shrivel.
Steve Volk / Philadelphia Magazine:
George Norcross Now the Majority Owner of Inquirer, Daily News, Philly.com  —  In a move that has deep ramifications for Philadelphia's entire media ecosystem, George Norcross III has become the majority owner of the Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com.  —  Norcross is expected to announce …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The not-so-quaint charm of the email newsletter  —  In spite of today's obsession with social networks, the email newsletter remains a potent vector for the dissemination of news and for driving traffic back to websites.  It comes with one condition, though: reintroducing a human touch.
Discussion: @dskok, @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab and @qz
Andy Serwer / Fortune:
Inside the mind of Jonah Peretti  —  The visionary media entrepreneur, diviner of virality and one-time enfant terrible (he turns 40 on New Year's Day) explains the mechanics of how information spreads, his personal reading habits, and why it's dangerous to be a slave to the numbers.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Trinity Mirror launches ‘socially-shareable data journalism’ site  —  Ampp3d, Trinity Mirror's new project for “socially-shareable data journalism”, launches today to “explore both the day's news agenda and a range of topics that people care passionately about”, according to the site.
Discussion: @martinbelam and Guardian
Hadas Gold / Politico:
NYT Public Ed: Forsythe could join Times  —  New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan had an interesting and perhaps prophetic line in Sunday's paper: In a column about the growing problems facing foreign journalists in China, Sullivan suggests that ex-Bloomberg reporter Michael Forsythe …
Jim Romenesko:
Anthony Duignan-Cabrera resigns as Patch vice president, editorial director  —  Actually, Anthony, I didn't spam your mailbox; I simply asked you to confirm this report I got from a tipster — something that I've since had others confirm.  My tipster: Hearing chatter that Anthony Duignan-Cabrera …
David Carr / New York Times:
Where Freedom of the Press Is Muffled  —  In China on Thursday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke plainly about the role of a free press in a democratic society.  —  “Innovation thrives where people breathe freely, speak freely, are able to challenge orthodoxy, where newspapers …
Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:
David Remnick Joins NBC for Sochi Olympics  —  David Remnick, the editor of the The New Yorker, has been hired by NBC Olympics boss and former “Today” EP Jim Bell for NBC's Sochi coverage.  —  SI.com reports the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, a Russophile who is fluent in Russian …
 
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Amanda Lee Myers / Associated Press:
Twitter, Facebook, others warn defamation suit against gossip site could “significantly chill online speech”
Discussion: Poynter
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
With No Notice, Putin Scraps Kremlin News Agencies
Edward Moyer / CNET:
Saving the Net from the surveillance state: Glenn Greenwald speaks up (Q&A)
Discussion: Forbes and @wblau
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Dan Caterinicchia / Poynter:
College websites seeing mobile migration, but not all are ready
Discussion: @elanazak and @doughaddix
Richard Parker / Columbia Journalism Review:
At Jake Silverstein's “amped up” Texas Monthly, water policy, immigration, and BBQ are all cover stories
MG Siegler / Medium:
Let It Full-Bleed  —  On the importance of images and layout in writing.
Discussion: ParisLemon