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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

How Betaworks revived Digg, growing it from 1.5M to 8M monthly visitors over the last two years — Inside the company that rebuilt Digg — Before there was Reddit, there was Digg. Digg used to be one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups. Founded in late 2004, it became a sensation …

Michael Wolff / Town & Country:

Forbes Media adapted to a digital business model, but the company and the family paid the price of a damaged brand — Empire Falls — There was a time when practically every rich man wanted to be Malcolm Forbes. For 20 years he was our most famous plutocrat, living lavishly off …

Discussion: @thestalwart and @qhardy

Catherine Mayer / TIME:

Bono says U2 and Apple working on new digital music format — Exclusive: U2 and Apple Have Another Surprise for You — The four members of the legendary Irish band tell TIME about another new album in the works—and its secret Apple project that might just save the music industry

Discussion: Techdirt, Forbes, Complete Music Update, App Advice, Music Week, Macworld, RAIN News and Marco.org

Portada:

Aaron Kushner to evaluate whether the Los Angeles Register is viable as a daily — Aaron Kushner, CEO of Freedom Communications, said that he will evaluate “in the next few weeks” whether the Los Angeles Register has a viable future as a daily. The Los Angeles Register was launched in April …

Discussion: LA Weekly and LA Observed

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

Berners-Lee: proposed FCC net neutrality rules would force firms to “effectively bribe” ISPs — World Wide Web inventor lashes out at Internet fast lanes: 'It's bribery.' — A quarter-century ago, Timothy Berners-Lee designed the world's first Web browser and server …

Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:

Online court archive PACER says it will restore access to missing records — The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (or AO) has a plan to restore online access to documents that were controversially removed in August from PACER, the online system for accessing public court records, a spokesperson said.

Discussion: @csoghoian, @marklemley, @sjschultze, Ars Technica, Techdirt and Gigaom

Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:

Iranian president offers no new details on detained Washington Post reporter — In a new interview with NBC's Ann Curry, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declined to offer details on the condition of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who was detained about two months ago on unspecified charges.

Miriam Berger / BuzzFeed:
Brother Of Jailed Washington Post Journalist Calls For His Release As Iranian Leadership Heads To New York

Discussion: @modavari

Lene Bech Sillesen / Columbia Journalism Review:

Exploring ethics through journalism hotlines — How news associations are keeping up with changing principles — Media ethics are always a hot-button issue in journalism, but there's reason to pay particular attention at the moment, as new initiatives are stirring up old ways of thinking.

Discussion: @meldostis, SABEW and American Press Institute

Erin Madigan White / The Definitive Source:

8 ways the Obama administration is blocking information — The fight for access to public information has never been harder, Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee said recently at a joint meeting of the American Society of News Editors, the Associated Press Media Editors and the Associated Press Photo Managers.

Discussion: TVNewser, @tbridis, FishbowlDC, @freedomofpress, Mediaite, Washington Post, @burgessev, @salenazitotrib, @caseymcdermott and @dangillmor

Toni McQuilken / Adweek:

Facebook Will Get 10% of U.S. Digital Ad Spending in 2014 — Research shows social giant's digital dominance — Adults in the United States will spend an average of 6 percent of their total digital media time on Facebook—or 21 minutes every day—and the social media giant captures 10 percent …

Nicole Levy / Capital New York:

Hearst acquires San Francisco-based networking startup BranchOut to develop mobile apps and services — Hearst heads to Silicon Valley to launch development group — Hearst Corporation is setting up a digital product development group in Silicon Valley to build out new mobile apps and services, Capital has learned.

Discussion: @hearstcorp, Talking New Media, Hearst Corporation and WWD

Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

How data is central to the New Statesman's digital ‘spin-offs’ — With the launch of CityMetric and election portal May2015, the team behind the New Statesman is experimenting with data journalism off-site — Credit: Image by kenteegardin on Flickr. Some rights reserved.