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2:50 PM ET, October 9, 2014

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Claire Suddath / Businessweek:
The Weather Channel's Secret: Less Weather, More Clickbait  —  The writers and editors at the Weather Channel's weather.com don't often talk about the weather.  They're not meteorologists.  They don't mention the forecast or debate whether New York's overcast sky means it's going to rain.
James Poniewozik / TIME:
Could Jon Stewart Have Put Sunday Morning Shows Out of Their Misery?  —  He reportedly turned down an offer to host Meet the Press.  If so, too bad for NBC—but probably best for him  —  According to New York Magazine, before NBC hired Chuck Todd to take over Meet the Press …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
NBC Wanted to Hire Jon Stewart As Host of Meet the Press
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At National Press Club, the press is shut out  —  I'd like to tell you what Robert Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Syria, said at the National Press Club on Wednesday about recent developments in the war against the Islamic State.  The diplomat, who resigned in protest earlier this year because he found it …
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
At Condé Nast Entertainment, marketing digital video costs as much as making it  —  Every fall, when broadcast and cable networks premiere a new lineup of television shows, they aren't just investing in the production of pilot episodes—they're also spending millions to market …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Twitter News Head Vivian Schiller Out in Media Unit Consolidation  —  Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec who Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation.  Adam Sharp will now be in charge of both news and politics at the social messaging company .
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Music Industry Pushes for New York Tax Credits Like Film Industry's  —  Can a tax subsidy revive New York's music business?  —  A group of music industry figures, worried about the flight of music production and related jobs from New York to states like Texas and Tennessee …
Discussion: Billboard, FDRMX and NCPR Daily News
Brady Dale / Technically Brooklyn:
Alex Blumberg's podcast network just raised $675K  —  American Podcasting Corp has raised $675,000 on an offered $1.5 million debt-only round, according to an SEC filing.  —  Its cofounders, Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber are documenting the building of their company on the StartUp Podcast.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ex-News Corp lobbyist Frédéric Michel to work for Sky Italia  —  Lobbyist's close relationship with culture secretary Jeremy Hunt and his special adviser sparked controversy at Leveson inquiry  —  Frédéric Michel, the former News Corporation lobbyist whose emails …
Discussion: Poynter
Sumit Galhotra / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Big businesses attempt to muzzle critical reporting in India  —  This month Keya Acharya responded to a nine-page legal notice demanding she pay 1 billion rupees ($16.3 million) over her article on India's rose industry.  Her legal troubles are a window on to a pattern of how big businesses …
Discussion: @mahazm and @joelcpj
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon Studios Wants Big Comedies, Ready to Pay $4 Million for Pilots: Sources  —  Amazon Studios, its appetite whetted for half-hour comedies, is now looking to fund a big-budget, high-profile laffer to anchor its next wave of original series — and rival Netflix for attention-grabbing properties.
Discussion: Digital Spy
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Christian Science Monitor plans Passcode, a cybersecurity vertical  —  Coming soon (-ish, by January of next year at the latest) The Christian Science Monitor will launch its first vertical, Passcode a “modern field guide to security and privacy.”  —  “The Monitor saw a real opportunity …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hispanic Digital-Media Company ‘Latin Everywhere’ Formed via GoTV, Latin Anywhere Merger  —  GoTV, the Spanish-language digital entertainment company headed by Jorge Granier, has merged with Rich Hull's Latin Anywhere to form Latin Everywhere, which brings together digital rights …
Discussion: ScreenDaily and Hollywood Reporter
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Discussion: Engadget and @ischafer
Kelsey McKinney / Vox:
Co-founder of music discovery tool We Are Hunted builds Wonder.fm, a site that streams new releases from SoundCloud
Discussion: Gigaom
Jack Kim / Reuters:
South Korea indicts Japanese journalist for defaming President
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Ongoing crowdfunding sites like Patreon are becoming a source of revenue for journalists
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Hulu CEO mulls cutting number of ads running on Hulu Plus
Discussion: Gigaom
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Next up for Netflix: An expansion to South Korea, Italy or the Middle East?
 

 
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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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