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3:09 AM ET, November 7, 2013

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DISH Network:
Blockbuster to End Domestic Retail, DVD By Mail Services  — Blockbuster to close remaining U.S. company-owned stores, DVD By Mail services by early-January 2014  —  Dateline:  —  ENGLEWOOD, Colo.  —  EmailPDFPrintRSSShareThis  —  Public Company Information:  —  NASDAQ:  —  DISH
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Internet Kills the Video Store  —  Blockbuster, which had more than 9,000 retail stores across America nine short years ago, will close the few hundred video-rental stores that it still has, the company's owner, Dish Network, said Wednesday in a bittersweet but long-expected announcement.
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Jeff Bewkes: HBO's Streaming Deal With Comcast Won't Promote Cord Cutting  —  Time Warner startled a lot of people recently when it allowed the No. 1 cable operator to include HBO Go in a new $40 a month broadband service.  Wouldn't some consumers cancel their pay TV service if they found …
Discussion: The Verge and Gigaom
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time Inc. Spinoff Timing Delayed
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Time Warner's Profit Tops Estimates as Network Revenue Gains
Discussion: Reuters and Los Angeles Times
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Earnings: CBS Meets Q3 Expectations After Time Warner Cable Fight  —  CBS Corp. emerged from its third-quarter fight with Time Warner Cable matching Wall Street's earnings expectations.  —  CBS CEO Les Moonves told investors in a conference call that the success reflected the network's emphasis on content.
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
THE COST OF WINNING: Tim Armstrong, Patch, And The Struggle To Save AOL  —  On an overcast Friday afternoon last August, a hundred or so employees of AOL's local news subsidiary, Patch, crammed into a cafeteria at the company's headquarters in Manhattan.  Another several hundred connected to the room via conference call.
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Tim Berners-Lee: encryption cracking by spy agencies ‘appalling and foolish’  —  Inventor of world wide web calls for debate about ‘dysfunctional and unaccountable’ oversight of NSA and GCHQ  —  Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist who created the world wide web, has called for a …
Discussion: CNET, Salon, @avilarenata, BBC and @genn4dy
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Michael Bloomberg's post-mayoral day-job will be at Bloomberg View  —  Michael Bloomberg is getting back into the media business.  —  The outgoing three-term mayor of New York is planning to return to his namesake Bloomberg L.P. in a role that will see him primarily involved in its online opinion offering …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Twitter announces IPO pricing of $26 per share with a valuation of $18.3 billion  —  Twitter announced on Wednesday that it will price its IPO at $26 per share when it begins trading on Thursday.  The company plans to sell 70 million shares out of a total of 545 million outstanding shares.
Sam Petulla / The Content Strategist:
Looking Past ‘The Prism Of Fear’: News Corp's Data Leader On the End of the Pageview Era  —  Remember when pageviews were the dominate metric of the Internet?  Today, with publishers rapidly de-prioritizing page views, it's starting to feel like an artifact of bygone days of the web, when “Mobile” was just a city down south.
Discussion: @raju
Ben Cardew / Guardian:
Pitchfork Weekly - a digital magazine paying homage to the past  —  The new Android and iOS app is a weekly digital magazine of the music website that's part of a trend of emulating print rivals  —  Music press lovers: are you feeling nostalgic for the days of inky fingers …
Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
Pinterest Hires San Francisco Chronicle President Joanne Bradford to Lead Advertiser and Media Partnerships (Updated)  —  If Pinterest's recent advertising test with “promoted pins” wasn't a clear enough sign that it's ready to generate some revenue, its latest hire surely is.
Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Nikki Finke Out for Blood at New Homepage  —  Nikki Finke's new site will be out for blood — if its new intro page is any indication.  —  “NikkiFinke.com is coming to Hollywood,” reads the site, which for now is just a homepage teaser.  “Come for the cynicism.  Stay for the subversion.
Discussion: Variety and @nikkifinke
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Nexstar to Acquire Seven Grant Stations For $87.5 Million  —  WFXR Roanoke, WZDX Huntsville among the stations growing broadcast group to pick up  —  Nexstar Broadcasting Group has agreed to acquire seven TV stations from Grant Company for $87.5 million.  Simultaneous with that agreement …
Jack Marshall / Digiday:
How BuzzFeed Gives Native Ads a Traffic Boost  —  The story of modern media is wrapped up in this situation: “Native advertising” sometimes needs its own advertising for people to see it.  —  The problem with advertiser content on BuzzFeed and other publisher sites is that users just aren't always eager to consume it.
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
How geolocation is being used to promote magazine apps  —  Music Week is now free when downloaded from Abbey Road and The Gooner is free at the Emirates Stadium  —  Copyright: Image courtesy of Exact Editions  —  Exact Editions, which packages magazine apps for publishers …
Discussion: Exact Editions and @niemanlab
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of the shopping of Press+ and the coming of Paywalls 2.0  —  In April 2009, when Journalism Online began operations, its business — providing the backend for websites offering different kinds of paywalls — was largely derided.  Two years later, when the company …
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Al Jazeera America hires ‘Popular Science’ editor in chief Jacob Ward  —  Screen cap via Vimeo  —  Popular Science's Jacob Ward is leaving the magazine to join Al Jazeera America as the channel's science and technology news correspondent, the television channel announced today.
Discussion: @nbj914
Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:
Mirror group newspapers ‘habitually used phone-hacking’ High Court documents released today claim  —  A senior Mirror Group journalist “regularly paid” £125 for mobile phone numbers and pin codes from a private detective, High Court documents lodged by the alleged victims released today claim.
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Press Association:
Mirror fails in bid to throw out phone-hacking cases
 
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Ken Bensinger / Los Angeles Times:
Sale of Riverside newspaper may be in jeopardy
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Politico:
Rand Paul meets with Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes
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Hayashi Kaori / Nippon:
Japan's Newspaper Industry: Calm Before the Storm
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Reuters:
Al Qaeda-Linked Militants Claim Murder Of French Journalists In Mali
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
The rise of Alicia Menendez, a voice for the millennials
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Sunday People launches seven-day Buzzfeed-style website entirely funded by ‘native advertising’
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
NUJ calls for public subsidies to save newspapers from closure
 

 
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