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8:30 AM ET, August 26, 2014

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Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:
With high levels of engagement, Twitch users could make Amazon more attractive to advertisers  —  Why Amazon Is Paying $1 Billion to Help People Watch Video Games  —  For months Twitch, the video-game streaming service, was supposedly putting the finishing touches on a deal with Google (GOOG).
Discussion: Ars Technica, @bradstone and The Verge
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Amazon acquiring Twitch for $970M in cash
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT public editor says choice of words in Michael Brown profile a “regrettable mistake”  —  An Ill-Chosen Phrase, ‘No Angel,’ Brings a Storm of Protest  —  Two words — “no angel” — have become a flash point for many of the difficult, contentious, entrenched issues that have arisen …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New York Times defends Michael Brown Jr. ‘no angel’ characterization
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
To lure subscribers, the Times debuts a free mini crossword  —  The New York Times is launching a free daily mini crossword puzzle for users of its crossword app for iOS devices, the company said today.  —  The puzzle, which is comprised of a five-by-five grid of blocks …
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
James Foley's Family Posts Letter He Dictated to Fellow ISIS Captive  —  The family of James Foley, the American photojournalist murdered by ISIS militants, have posted a letter on Facebook that they say he dictated this summer to a fellow captive:  —  Diane Foley is James Foley's mother.
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Andy Cush / Gawker:
Experts: Foley Execution Video Was Edited to Streamline Beheading
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch runs News Corp along feudal' lines, Kim Williams says  —  Former CEO says the Australian newspaper business is ‘vaingloriously ignoring the facts’ and is shackled by outdated management systems  —  News Corp Australia is a company run along feudal lines which is …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and ABC
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Patrick Gottsch, Rural Media Group chief, warns rural America about the proposed Comcast-Time Warner merger  —  TV Chief Takes 2-by-4 to a Proposed Cable Merger  —  MEDINA, Minn. — As the oom-pah-pah oom-pah-pah of the band fades, Patrick Gottsch makes his way through silver-haired couples circling …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Verge Hack Week: developers, designers, and writers build new storytelling tools, plot growth  —  The Verge threw a hackweek and invited everyone they know  —  The idea for a Hack Week at The Verge was fairly simple, says editor-in-chief Nilay Patel.  Looking at the example …
Discussion: Poynter, @reckless and @niemanlab
Michelle Atagana / memeburn:
Erik Martin, general manager of Reddit, on journalism, comments, global expansion, democracy  —  Creating a more curious generation through memes: Q&A with Reddit GM  —  It's a slightly gloomy Seattle day but the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) is packed with students and members of the public.
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Mail Online success due to publisher ensuring digital and print function separately, different products with different functions  —  ‘Daily Mail’ solves Internet paradox  —  News is a reliable British export.  The lineup of products has included the tabloid and broadsheet newspaper …
Denny Thomas / Reuters:
Taiwan's Wei family to buy cable TV operator CNS for $2.4 bln -source  —  Taiwan's Wei family has agreed to buy China Network Systems (CNS), the nation's biggest cable TV operator, for about $2.4 billion including debt from private equity firm MBK Partners, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Sunday.
Walt Mossberg / Re/code:
Re/code introducing native advertising  —  A New Advertising Format for Re/code  —  Eagle-eyed readers may notice a new feature here on Re/code today.  It's called “Sponsor Content,” and is, for us, a new form of advertising.  Known broadly as “native advertising,” this is a category …
Discussion: @monkbent and @jonrussell, Thanks:@steverubel
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Alexandra MacCallum, a business-side executive appointed to assistant managing editor at NYT  —  An Unusual Hire, for Uncommon Times  —  SINCE I arrived in the newsroom of The Times two years ago, I've watched vast change take hold.  The digital revolution has hit the newspaper business like a hurricane roaring ashore.
 
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Fiona Reddan / The Irish Times:
UTV Ireland to hit profitability in 2015
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Tribune Hires John Batter to Run Digital Media, Shashi Seth Out
Discussion: @pkafka, PR Newswire and TechCrunch
 Earlier Picks: 
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
ACLU, Guardian U.S. and Oklahoma Observer file lawsuit against state prison system
Discussion: Guardian and ACLU
Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:
Facebook shifts its algorithm to fight clickbait. Will it kill off Upworthy and Buzzfeed?
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Profile of NBC News President Deborah Turness as she completes her first year in the role