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3:55 AM ET, October 1, 2015

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Sources: Jack Dorsey to be named permanent Twitter CEO, continue at Square, as soon as Thursday after board settles status of Adam Bain and Anthony Noto  —  Sources: Jack Dorsey to Be Named Permanent Twitter CEO  —  Jack is back — for good this time.  —  Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey …
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Jay Rosen / LinkedIn:
Twitter's Adam Sharp and Niketa Patel talk to Jay Rosen about the firm's news curation effort, Project Lightning, editorially independent and launching in fall  —  With Its Curation Product Twitter Becomes an Editorial Beast.  Does This Beast Have a Soul?  —  At a recent event produced …
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Serial’ TV Series Based On Podcast Set At Fox 21 With Chris Miller & Phil Lord  —  Serial is headed to television.  Writer/producer/directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord (The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street) and Fox 21 Television Studios have optioned the rights to the podcast phenomenon co-created …
Sam Sanders / NPR:
Twitter Has A 136-Page Handbook For Politicians' 140-Character Tweets  —  Twitter seems simple — just type in 140 characters and hit enter, right?  But Twitter can be tough.  Building an audience.  Keeping that audience.  Finding a voice.  Cutting through all the chatter.
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google to host event next Wednesday in New York, likely to unveil its open-source project similar to Instant Articles  —  Google Plans to Unveil Its Version of ‘Instant Articles’ Next Week  —  Three weeks ago, we told you about plans Google was hatching to launch a publishing tool to serve up articles on mobile devices.
Discussion: @jbenton
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Thrillist and e-commerce site JackThreads raise a combined $54M as they split into separate entities  —  Thrillist and JackThreads Raise $54 Million, Split Into Separate Companies  —  For five years, Thrillist CEO Ben Lerer has made the case that his media and e-commerce businesses should be housed under the same corporate roof.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Public's Right Not to Trust the Media  —  But that doesn't mean the media's not doing its job well.  —  Will somebody please order Chris Cillizza a Pick-Me-Up bouquet to restore his spirits?  Earlier this week, the rawhide-tough Washington Post political reporter was driven to the weeping room …
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google Ads SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy: we need to deal with ad blocking as an industry by defining what an acceptable ad is and improving the user experience  —  Google Ads Boss: ‘We Need to Deal With’ Ad Blocking as an Industry  —  Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google's top advertising executive …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Nuzzel, with a new batch of news-savvy investors, wants to bring social curation to publishers  —  If you live in certain media and technology circles, there's a very good chance you're already using Nuzzel.  It's an app that combs through your Twitter or Facebook feeds, identifying the links being shared the most by your friends.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Reporta, an app from the International Women's Media Foundation, allows reporters to check in to locations and send SOS alerts during a crisis  —  Reporta, a new app, offers journalists a lifeline in hazardous situations … Journalism, never the safest profession to begin with, has only gotten more hazardous in recent years.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
DirecTV, U-verse Negotiations with Station Groups Stretch Into the Night  —  Managing Editor: Television @Variety_Cynthia  —  Negotiations to avoid blackouts of more than 100 TV stations carried by DirecTV and U-verse extended well into the night on Wednesday as both companies faced midnight ET deadlines …
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Jamaican-based wireless operator Digicel will soon block ads except on some popular local news sites, saying firms like Google, Facebook should pay to serve ads  —  Mobile Operator Digicel Will Block Advertising Across Its Network  —  Online ad companies will have to pay to have ads displayed
Discussion: @perlberg and Financial Times
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Publisher-backed Next Issue, a Netflix-like service with 160 magazines, is relaunching with app and new name, Texture, for $9.99/month basic, $14.99 premium  —  Netflix-Style Magazine App Next Issue Relaunches As Texture  —  Next Issue, the publisher-backed subscription service offering unlimited access …
 
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