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12:00 PM ET, October 4, 2014

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 Top News: 
Emily Steel / New York Times:
How Jeff Zucker Is Seeking to Reshape CNN  —  Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN Worldwide, seemed to be having a blast Wednesday evening at a party for a new original series.  Perched on the arm of a chair, he watched intently as a magician performed tricks with coins, cards and a Rubik's cube.
Discussion: Capital New York
Miguel Helft / Fortune:
Tumblr has 400M monthly users but has failed to deliver a revenue boost to Yahoo  —  Was Yahoo's Tumblr acquisition a flop?  —  Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition has failed to deliver a desperately needed revenue boost, but that doesn't mean Marissa Mayer should halt all acquisitions.
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Google's Newsstand move may force the hand of Apple, leading to more aggregated content apps  —  The lack of progress in improving the Newsstand, combined with the news of the acquisition of a platform, has some wondering if Apple plans on introducing their own app that aggregates content …
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Reuters plans to launch Reuters.TV for iPhones and iPads in early 2015  —  Reuters Is the Latest to Try Reinventing News With Digital TV Service  —  Reuters.TV Will Bow In Early 2015  —  How to Make Credible Green Marketing Claims  —  Reuters is the latest news organization attempting …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Emily Gera / Polygon:
New Twitch policy: labeling sponsored videos, leaving users to declare their own sponsorships  —  Twitch addresses the ‘dark corner’ of the games industry with new transparency policy  —  New policy changes at Twitch are aiming to protect both viewers and content creators by highlighting …
Chris Plante / The Verge:
Netflix gains global attention with its Sandler partnership, he gets branding and little risk  —  Why Adam Sandler is making four films with Netflix  —  You might think of Adam Sandler as a comedian or an actor, but above everything else, he's a businessman.
Discussion: TechCrunch and TIME
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Deputy editor Dodai Stewart leaves Jezebel to become director of culture coverage at Fusion  —  Dodai Stewart leaves Jezebel for Fusion  —  Jezebel deputy editor Dodai Stewart is leaving the Gawker Media site to become Director of Culture Coverage at Fusion, digital editor-in-chief Jane Spencer announced in a note to staff today.
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Judge orders Guantánamo Bay force-feeding videos to be released  —  Judge orders US government to prepare public versions of 28 videos showing force-feeding of hunger-striking Syrian detainee  —  A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of videotapes that show the force-feeding of an inmate at Guantánamo Bay.
Sandra Laville / Guardian:
Paul Cantlie asks captors to allow photojournalist son to return home safely in message recorded from hospital bed  —  Paul Cantlie asks captors to allow photojournalist son to return home safely in message recorded from hospital bed  —  The elderly father of the British journalist John Cantlie …
Discussion: BBC and Associated Press
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Industry Scuttlebutt: Bill Simmons Wants Out Of ESPN, And The Offers Are Already Coming In  —  A couple of weeks ago, star ESPN columnist/talking head/"shadow president"/podcaster Bill Simmons called the commissioner of the NFL a liar and challenged his ESPN bosses to punish him for it.  —  They did.
James Dutton / TheMediaBriefing:
News Corp's Rahul Chopra: 'Videos and images don't just improve the story, they are the story'  —  “In the sharing age videos and images don't just improve the story, they are the story”, Storyful and News Corp's Rahul Chopra told Monetising Media yesterday.
 
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