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2:50 PM ET, November 3, 2014

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Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:
How the Snowden Leaks Gave Pierre Omidyar a Cause — and an Enemy  —  The eBay founder was a mild-mannered Obama supporter looking for a way to spend his time and fortune.  The Snowden leaks gave him a cause—and an enemy.  —  Illustrations by Matthew Woodson
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Associated Press:
Audio recordings indicate Ferguson no-fly zone was intended to keep away media during protests  —  AP Exclusive: Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
CNET's print magazine to debut on Monday, part of an effort to become a multiplatform brand  —  Technology Website CNET to Jump From Screen to Page  —  A LEADING technology website, CNET, is expanding into a platform that its users praise as portable, accessible and affordable.
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Nancy Scola / Washington Post:
Is a news site a news site if it's published by Verizon?  —  In SugarString, the already crowded world of online tech news gets a new entrant.  And a new publisher, too, one noted in the gorgeously-designed site's footer and at the bottom of each story: the telecommunications giant Verizon.
Discussion: @jeffjarvis and @vwpickard
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
Jill Abramson startup to advance writers up to $100k for longform work  —  Former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson shed light this weekend on her plans with Steven Brill to grow a start up.  —  Writers will be paid advances around $100,000 to produce stories that will be longer …
Charles V Bagli / New York Times:
Condé Nast Moves Into the World Trade Center as Lower Manhattan Is Remade  —  For two days last weekend, moving trucks shuttled a total of 2,800 orange crates crammed with files, photographs and books from a Times Square office tower downtown to the tallest skyscraper in North America, 1 World Trade Center.
Lynn Neary / NPR:
Tom Magliozzi, Popular Co-Host Of NPR's ‘Car Talk,’ Dies At 77  —  Tom Magliozzi, one of public radio's most popular personalities, died on Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease.  He was 77 years old.  —  Tom and his brother, Ray, became famous as “Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers” on the weekly NPR show Car Talk.
Discussion: @davidfolkenflik
Madeleine Heffernan / Business Review Weekly:
'We're effectively a start-up': Guardian Australia reports $7.5m loss  —  News website Guardian Australia has posted a $7.5 million full-year loss, after a small profit in 2013, but says ­revenues have diversified and “increased significantly”.  —  Guardian Australia is backed …
Discussion: @bencubby and @rosepowell
Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
Why podcasts are back: shows are better and cheaper, playing smartphone audio in a car is easy  —  What's Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?  —  The mid-aughts audio scene is making a big comeback.  —  In 2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod, a music player that would make it possible …
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Cleveland Plain Dealer removes unflattering video of candidate it endorsed, refuses to comment  —  Chris Quinn, vice president for content at the Northeast Ohio Media Group... What's up?  —  There is something going on at the news organization formerly known as the Cleveland Plain Dealer that the world should know about.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Publicis Snaps Up Sapient For $3.7B To Build A Digital Media Powerhouse  —  Global ad giant Publicis is spending big to position itself as the top agency for brands riding the digital wave, after it announced (PDF) a deal that sees it acquire Sapient for $3.7 billion.
 
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Blogging network BlogHer acquired by digital media company SheKnows for $30-40M
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Toronto Star:
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Video discovery company Rovi buys set-top box Fan TV maker Fanhattan
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Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

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