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10:15 AM ET, August 25, 2014

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Edmund Lee / Re/code:
New York Times's Digital Subscription Growth Story May Be Ending  —  The New York Times has bet on digital subscriptions to play a central role in its long-term future.  But while selling access to the paper's Web and mobile versions was an initial hit, growth is slowing …
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Time Inc. Faces a Looming Existential Magazine Deadline  —  What should a magazine company be now?  The most storied one in America has to come up with an answer fast.  —  In the 92 years since Henry Luce co-founded Time Inc., there have been just seven journalists to hold the title of editor-in-chief.
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Peter Theo Curtis, Abducted by Nusra Front in 2012, Is Released  —  An American journalist held captive for nearly two years by Al Qaeda's official branch in Syria has been freed, according to a representative of the journalist's family and a report on Sunday by the Al Jazeera network.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Following layoffs memo, Jeff Zucker tells CNN employees they need to “do less and do it with less”  —  CNN chief: News operation will do less with less  —  CNN chief Jeff Zucker recently shared not so encouraging words with some of the news operation's employees, many of whom have been bracing for potential jobs cuts.
Fox News:
US, UK eye rapper as British-born militant who beheaded journalist James Foley  —  American and British intelligence officials are eyeing a British-born rapper as the militant who beheaded journalist James Foley.  —  A senior Western intelligence official told Fox News that 23-year-old …
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Christopher Massie / Columbia Journalism Review:
To publish or not: James Foley video spotlights media's tough call  —  Remnick, Baquet and other editors discuss their decisions about when to publish disturbing images  —  The obvious implication of The New York Times' famous motto that its pages contain “All the News That's Fit to Print” is that not all news is fit to print.
David Carr / New York Times:
Its Edge Intact, Vice Is Chasing Hard News  —  In early 2010, I wrote a column about Vice in which Shane Smith, one of the founders, suggested that he and his band of insurgents were building “the next MTV.”  And then there was a promise to become “the next CNN” — outrageous claims at the time …
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Quartz has a new look—and for the first time, a homepage  —  We just shipped version 3.0 of Quartz, which you are looking at right now.  It's our second major redesign in as many years, a rapid pace of reinvention that makes good on our promise to continually evolve and improve on what a purely digital news organization can be.
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Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Yahoo rolls out its native ad network to other publishers, including Vox Media's SB Nation  —  Here Is Yahoo's Native Ad Network  —  Content Recommendation Box on Vox Media, CBS Interactive Sites Includes Yahoo's Ads  —  Yahoo's content recommendation box places its native ads on others' sites.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vice News sparks debate on engaging younger viewers  —  Traditional broadcasters such as BBC and Channel 4 examine how to attract generation focused on YouTube and social media  —  Vice News report on The Islamic State has attracted more than 2.5m views on YouTube
Discussion: @eelcoromeijn
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Upworthy's Traffic Goes Lower, but Revenue Is Climbing  —  The last time we checked in on Upworthy, the viral Web-sharing startup, we found that its traffic was sagging.  Not a big deal, said CEO Eli Pariser: The company was training more people to find stuff to share, so it hadn't spent as much time sharing stuff.
 
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ScrollMotion VP: tablet magazines were flawed; pubs should build in utility, customization
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David Weigel / Slate:
Politico says Vox isn't living up to the hype, as Vox traffic grows to pass Politico
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Now Piloting CPM Ads With Select Amazon Associates Publishers
John Plunkett / Guardian:
British TV industry at risk from US tech and media giants, says Channel 4 chief
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
CNN Held Talks About Joint Venture With Glenn Beck's The Blaze
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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