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10:55 PM ET, October 11, 2014

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The Nation:
The Government War Against Reporter James Risen  —  This article appeared in the October 27, 2014 edition of The Nation.  —  Ever since New York Times reporter James Risen received his first subpoena from the Justice Department more than six years ago, occasional news reports have skimmed the surface of a complex story.
Discussion: @thenation
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Prosecutors suggest they will still subpoena New York Times reporter James Risen in leak case  —  Federal prosecutors hinted Friday that they still intend to subpoena a New York Times reporter to testify in their case against a former CIA agent accused of being one of his sources …
Aaron Couch / Hollywood Reporter:
Box Office Mojo Returns After Disappearing Friday  —  BoxOfficeMojo.com is back in action Box office junkies can rest easy.  Box Office Mojo has returned after mysteriously disappearing Friday morning.  IMDB, which acquired the data website in 2008, has not explained the disappearance or return.
Discussion: The Wrap and Variety
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Guardian forms new editorial teams to enhance digital output  —  Visual journalism, data journalism and audience development teams are all being restructured under plans from new executive editor for digital Aron Pilhofer  —  Credit: Michael Bruntonspall on Flickr.  Some rights reserved
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras' documentary about Snowden, confirms a second leaker  —  Citizenfour review Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicated  —  Laura Poitras' documentary disentangles NSA surveillance and plots the story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow  —  Edward Snowden in Moscow.
INMA:
Les Echos focuses on getting to know its audience through data  —  Audience and editorial data are important parts to Les Echo's audience engagement strategy.  —  The potential number of users in France for Les Echo is five million, according to Frédéric Filloux …
Discussion: @ampress
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud Posted A $29M Loss In 2013 On Revenues Of $14M  —  SoundCloud, the popular online music and audio sharing platform, is now exceeding 175 million listeners each month and is on track to reach 200 million.  But its rapid growth has seen the company's costs run away from its revenues.
Josh Warwick / Telegraph:
Meet the 21-year-old YouTuber who made millions playing video games  —  Olajide Olatunji - better known as KSI - is one of the world's most influential and bankable YouTube stars.  Josh Warwick meets him  —  School drop-out, video-game obsessive, multi-millionaire.
Discussion: @telegraphmen
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Nielsen says it has issued faulty ratings data since March  —  Nielsen, which controls almost all of the television ratings measurement market, says that a technical error resulted in the company issuing incorrect TV ratings for national broadcast networks.  —  The error was introduced in March …
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Reynolds Journalism Institute:
Q&A with Jim Bankoff: Building collaboration, technology and products at Vox Media  —  Jim Bankoff is the chairman and chief executive officer of Vox Media, operator of seven digital brands including The Verge, SB Nation and Vox.com.  In this edited transcript of our interview for the RJI Futures Lab update …
Attila Mong / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Amid government crackdown, Hungary's journalists look for new ways to work  —  “They raided our offices as if we were mobsters.  The irony of the situation is that the Hungarian police rarely raid mobsters with such force,” said an employee at one of two NGOs whose Budapest offices were stormed …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Circa's David Cohn joins Al Jazeera's mobile-focused AJ+ as executive producer  —  Another win for the millennials: AJ+ hires Circa's Chief Content Officer David Cohn  —  Al Jazeera's AJ+ venture has landed a bit of a coup by hiring Circa's Chief Content Officer David Cohn to lead its audience engagement team.
Discussion: Medium, @raju and @riy
 
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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

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