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6:20 AM ET, October 10, 2013

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Could Twitter Help Fight Cord-Cutting?  Here's Proof It Can  —  Underlying the ever-deeper partnerships that Twitter is forging with TV networks is the premise that getting viewers to tweet is a way the television industry can help itself.  When people tweet about what they're watching …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal  —  Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years.  Now it has its it biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Al Gore Tried To Buy Twitter And Merge It With Current.  What If He'd Succeeded?  —  Don't you just love all the stuff that comes out when a hot tech company declares it's going public?  I'm thinking in particular about a tidbit from Nick Bilton's piece in the Times magazine about the intrigue and betrayals in Twitter's early years.
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Nick Bilton / New York Times:
“Hatching Twitter” excerpts depict a detached Jack Dorsey who later attempted to recast Twitter's history
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Twitter Appears To Be Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment  —  Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication.  An account called @eventparrot …
Laura Bennett / The New Republic:
The Andrew Wylie Rules  —  How the literary agent still makes millions off highbrow  —  Among literary agents, Andrew Wylie is as old school as they come.  Dubbed “the Jackal” for his aggressive poaching of other people's clients, his distaste for commercial fiction and his disinterest in social media is legendary.
Discussion: Melville House Books
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Al Jazeera will launch a dedicated online channel, bring videos back to YouTube  —  Quatar-based TV news network Al Jazeera will launch a dedicated online video channel within the next few months.  The channel was announced at the MIPCOM industry convention in Cannes this week …
Ruth Bazinet / Medium:
Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets … Twitter's attrition rate is hindering its ability to adequately grow its user base, and ultimately its revenue.  Twitter is currently losing money, and its losses are accelerating as it heads towards an IPO.
Guardian:
Press still plans self-regulation despite ministers' rejection, says Times editor  —  John Witherow's comments come as Lord Justice Leveson refuses to enter debate on press regulation reform  —  The editor of the Times yesterday gave the clearest indication yet that a group …
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Q&A: Editor Ben Shapiro of TruthRevolt, the right-wing version of Media Matters  —  Love Him, Despise Him, There's an Earnest Quality to Ben Shapiro's Walk Toward the Fire  —  Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro isn't necessarily an angry person, but he plays one on TV …
Discussion: 10,000 Words and @ericboehlert
Katherine Rosman / Wall Street Journal:
In Digital Era, What Does ‘Watching TV’ Even Mean?  —  Study Suggests More Time Spent on Smartphones, Computers, Tablets Than Television  —  We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.
Discussion: @wsj and Los Angeles Times
 
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
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Edirin Oputu / Columbia Journalism Review:
The New York Times expands its international opinion section
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
A young woman ‘languishing’ at CBS gets a quick career assist from Mika Brzezinski
Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:
Rusbridger defends Snowden leaks claiming ‘any terrorist who can tie his shoelaces’ is aware of surveillance
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

George Steer / Financial Times:
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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