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9:45 AM ET, September 5, 2014

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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Bloomberg Returns to an Organization Looking for a Vision  —  IN late 2007, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg rolled his chair over to Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff's desk inside the bullpen at City Hall and suggested that they go to a nearby table to talk.  The mayor knew that Mr. Doctoroff …
Discussion: @raju and Talking Biz News
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Faces a More Competitive Marketplace, Strained Relations With Financial Institutions  —  Bloomberg Faces a More Competitive Marketplace, Strained Relations With Financial Institutions  —  When the founder of a company returns after having stepped aside, he usually is aiming to save from ruin the firm he built.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and MediaWire Daily
Ken Silverstein / The Intercept:
The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication  —  A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
7 problems with Politico Magazine's hit piece on Glenn Greenwald  —  Politico Magazine's Michael Hirsh has written a hit piece on Glenn Greenwald.  It is terrible, in precisely seven ways.  —  Problem No. 1: Wimpy, pusillanimous, cowardly headline-and-subhead combo.  —  Here's how the piece presents itself to readers:
Kenneth Li / Re/code:
Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp said he's taking cues from NatGeo; doesn't plan to “bleed Time Inc.”  —  Time Inc. to Take Page From National Geographic Playbook  —  Time Inc. will borrow a page from the National Geographic playbook to revive its declining print empire.
Discussion: Re/code
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Anne Marie Squeo / Netflix US & Canada Blog:
Netflix Supports FCC Chairman's Call for Increased Broadband Competition  —  Nearly everything we do today requires an Internet connection.  Its persistent, increasing presence in our lives makes today's comments by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler all the more important.
Discussion: @netflix, BetaNews and TechCrunch
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Edmund Lee / Re/code:
Ex-NYT exec editor Jill Abramson on the paper's future and on what she wants to do next  —  Former New York Times Editor Jill Abramson on the Paper's Future  —  Jill Abramson still doesn't know why she was fired as the top editor of the New York Times.  —  “I'm still trying to sort of figure that out.
Carolyn Kellogg / Los Angeles Times:
Hachette author Janet Fitch asks Bezos to weigh impact on literature in Amazon dispute  —  Janet Fitch reveals her letter to Amazon's Jeff Bezos  —  Another writer has decided to speak up about the business dealings of Amazon: Janet Fitch, who after signing the Authors United letter, has gone a step further.
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Publishers Weekly:
Authors United Preparing New Amazon Initiative
Discussion: Bookseller news and @markhor
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Washington Post eyes national scale for its events business  —  Jeff Bezos' crusade to make The Washington Post relevant to more than just D.C. insiders is extending to the newspaper's events business as well.  —  The newspaper announced on Thursday that it will be launching “America Answers …
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
ESPN's President John Skipper predicts millennials will trade up from cheap Internet TV to pricier cable  —  ESPN Thinks Millennials Will Graduate From Cheap Web TV to Expensive Cable  —  ESPN is the cable network that commands the highest subscriber fees in the U.S. …
Discussion: @recode and @fieldproducer
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
UK's Sky News aims to reach U.S. TV viewers through the Xbox 360 game console  —  The United Kingdom's Sky News plans to reach a larger U.S. audience through TV news programming on Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console.  —  Starting Tuesday, the British company will launch is 24/7 broadcast news channel …
Discussion: Sky News and Marketwired
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Diller's Vimeo makes push at Toronto Film Festival  —  Naked yoga videos, an Eminem boxing film and a unique collection of thought-provoking independent movies are helping Barry Diller's video platform Vimeo create a new distribution model for online content.
Discussion: Digital Journal and Variety
Noah Everett / Twitpic Blog:
Twitpic to shut down September 25, citing trademark dispute with Twitter  —  Twitpic is shutting down  —  Twitpic will be shutting down September 25th.  You will be able to export all your photos and videos.  We'll let everyone know when this feature is live in the next few days.
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
With $500 million war chest, what's next for Vice Media?  —  Vice Media is on the cusp of a major expansion.  —  The company has secured $500 million in funding, including $250 million from A+E Network, and $250 million from Silicon Valley investment firm Technology Crossover Ventures.
 
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Kate Newman / The Atlantic Online:
Publishing houses skip fact-checking despite accuracy scandals due to lack of repercussions
Discussion: Gawker and The New York Observer
Dave McNary / Variety:
Warner Bros. CEO Confirms Layoffs in Memo to Staff
Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
250 Days In, Journalists Continue Fight For Jailed Al Jazeera Staff
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Why Trinity Mirror Regionals is taking to Google+
Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie, is ditching comments. Blame spam — and trolls.
Discussion: BBC
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Wall Street Journal:
To fight online rivals, TV networks scramble for NFL rights while the league expands digital services
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Former HuffPo ME Jimmy Soni investigated for sexual harassment while overseeing Editorial Fellows program
Eyder Peralta / NPR:
After A 35-Year Run, NPR's Programming Chief Is Leaving
Discussion: Poynter, @niemanlab and Current.org
Trista Bridges / Rude Baguette:
Wuaki.tv beats Netflix to France with soft launch to 10k beta users; movie rentals €.99, purchase €4.99-€9.99
Discussion: Advanced Television
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ moving to New York later this month
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From Techmeme:

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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