Mediagazer: This blogger paid Facebook to promote his page. He got 80,000 bogus Likes instead. (Brian Fung/The Switch)

11:35 PM ET, February 10, 2014

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First Look Media announces new magazine, The Intercept — Welcome to The Intercept — We are very excited to welcome everyone to The Intercept, a publication of First Look Media (FLM). The Intercept, which the three of us created, is the first of what will be numerous digital magazines published by FLM.

Erik Wemple:

Glenn Greenwald and the U.S. ‘assassination’ program — Journalist Glenn Greenwald promised that the Pierre Omidyar-bankrolled First Look Media Web site would take it to vested interests in Washington. The debut edition of First Look's first digital magazine began delivering on the pledge …

Discussion: @the_intercept, Daily Dot, The Raw Story, Boing Boing, Softpedia News, Mediaite and The Huffington Post

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Welcome to Glenn Greenwald, Inc.?

Discussion: The Intercept, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, @thedailybeast, Techdirt, The Raw Story, Hit & Run and @justinjm1

Alistair Barr / USA Today:

Google strikes big ad measurement deal with comScore — Partnership may change how billions of online ads a day are measured, covering display, video, mobile and any future areas Google moves into. — SAN FRANCISCO — Google signed a major advertising deal with comScore to help …

Discussion: comScore, Inc.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Bill Keller, The Marshall Project, and making single-focus nonprofit news sites work — “When you have a startup, one of the most challenging things is to establish yourself as a credible news organization,” Neil Barsky, founder of a new news nonprofit focused on criminal justice issues, told me.

Discussion: Poynter, USA Today, The New Yorker Blog, Mediaite, Gawker, FishbowlNY and @nytimescohen

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Upworthy Traffic Gets Crushed — In November, viral-content-for-a-cause site Upworthy posted insane traffic numbers, reaching almost 90 million people around the world, according to Quantcast. — Then, in December, Facebook announced a change to the algorithm it uses to determine what kinds of updates …

Discussion: @petersterne, @antderosa and @dannysullivan

George Packer / New Yorker:

Is Amazon bad for books? — Amazon is a global superstore, like Walmart. It's also a hardware manufacturer, like Apple, and a utility, like Con Edison, and a video distributor, like Netflix, and a book publisher, like Random House, and a production studio, like Paramount, and a literary magazine …

Discussion: Forbes, GeekWire, Business Insider and The Awl

Peter Kafka / Re/code:
The Time That Jeff Bezos Had Henry Blodget Explain the Web to the Washington Post

Discussion: @mike_orcutt and Politico

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

HLN Wants To Be The Cable News Network For The Social Media Generation — “Our headlines will be ripped from social media,” says Albie Hecht in his first interview after being named to lead the channel. A possible slogan: “We're not the news. You are.” — HLN Executive Vice President Albie Hecht.

Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:

The Only People Harassing the Gays of Sochi are the Foreign Journalists — Sochi has one gay club. It is called Mayak, or “light house,” and it is located behind an unmarked door right off one of the city's lush parks. You have to buzz to be let in. — Once you're in, though …

Discussion: @t_mcconnell, @chrishughes, @davidfolkenflik and @ianbirrell

Mario Anzuoni / Reuters:

Barnes & Noble shares rise on news of job cuts among Nook staff — (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) shares rose by as much as 9.6 percent on Monday after news that the bookseller cut jobs from its team of hardware engineers working on its money-losing Nook digital books and e-reader business.

Discussion: New York Times

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Hardware Engineering Staff

Discussion: @sai, The Verge, VatorNews, GeekWire, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Deadline.com and Pocket-lint

Joel Mathis / Philadelphia Magazine:

Can Philly Newspapers Be Saved? — Writer Steve Volk is a longtime observer of the Philadelphia media scene — so he brings a substantial foundation to this month's Philly Mag print story that takes readers inside the furious battle for control of the city's two major daily newspapers.

Discussion: Poynter, @tommyrowan and @mollyeichel

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

FOIA lessons from Gawker Editor John Cook — Last January, Ann Coulter expressed her anger about The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal-News' gun-permit map, which it assembled from public records. “I want them for Manhattan!” Coulter told Sean Hannity.

Discussion: @erikwemple, @johnmcquaid and @poynter

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter's Big Battle Is Indifference — Social Network Leaves Many Individual Users Cold — Twitter Inc. 's pitch to people like Christine Harsono isn't hitting its target. — The 21-year-old Los Angeles waitress has yet to give into years of nudging by Twitter to sign up.

Discussion: @wsjd and Business Insider

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Netflix ISP rankings show Verizon and Comcast speeds falling — Netflix updated its list of ISP rankings Monday, and the online video provider shows that Comcast and Verizon are continuing to fall in its custom rankings. That's possibly because of peering practices put in place by those ISP's …

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

4 Headlines that Will Restore Your Flagging Faith in Journalism — Editor's note: The new issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports is out and ready for you to read. — Lots of great stuff in there as usual; the main theme of the issue is the state of journalism in China …

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

French journalist “hacks” govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+ — A Google search turned up public files that Olivier Laurelli is accused of publishing. — In 2012, French blogger, activist, and businessman Olivier Laurelli sat down at his computer.

Discussion: Techdirt

Brian Fung / The Switch:

This blogger paid Facebook to promote his page. He got 80,000 bogus Likes instead. — If you manage a Facebook page for a company, interest or organization, then you know there are two main reasons Facebook Likes are important. One is pretty obvious: The number of Likes you receive …

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

The Bitcoin Solution to Newspaper Business Woes — Last Saturday, the Chicago Sun-Times, the ninth-largest newspaper in the U.S, launched an interesting, somewhat gimmicky experiment: For one day, the newspaper let Web visitors pay for content with bitcoin, the digital currency that everyone's talking …