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12:30 AM ET, February 12, 2011

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 Top News: 
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Wall-to-wall coverage as Mubarak resigns  —  Cable news went wall-to-wall with special reports and broadcasters broke into their daytime programming as crowds in Egypt erupted following the news shortly after 11 a.m. EST Friday that embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned, handing over power to the nation's army.
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Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
When the News Gets Old  —  It's no secret that in a world of news at Twitter speed, print seems to be getting left farther and farther behind.  Like others, I've written about this a couple times previously, and of course there was the Daily Show's fabulously snarky take on “aged news” a couple of years ago.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Kcaldwell / Journalism.org:
Egypt Takes Center Stage on Blogs
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Despite HP Deal With Time Inc., Magazines and Apple Still Stuck on iPad Subscriptions  —  The Daily's Model Might Work — If You Think Subscribers Will Opt in to Marketing Messages  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It suddenly feels like Apple and publishers must be close to a deal on selling subscriptions to magazines' iPad editions.
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Sports Illustrated to Stop Selling Print-Only Subscriptions  —  $48 Package Bundling in Android Apps Means End of $39 Print-Only Offer  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Sports Illustrated unveiled its new $48 “All Access” subscription package bundling print, web and app editions for Android tablets …
Discussion: WWD Media Headlines
New York Post:
Sports Illustrated suits up for subscription app
Discussion: MediaFile and FishbowlNY
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
It's Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social  —  Facebook has disrupted or helped to re-engineer many businesses and markets, including the photo-sharing market and the social-gaming market.  But one thing it hasn't really focused on so far is the news business.
Discussion: paidContent and Digits, Thanks:loic
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Wall Street Journal:
Chapter 11 for Borders, New Chapter for Books  —  Borders Group Inc. is in the final stages of preparing a bankruptcy filing, clinching a long fall for a company with humble beginnings that helped change the way Americans buy books but failed to keep pace with the digital transformation rocking every corner of the media landscape.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
gave4andy: Andy Carvin and the ad hoc pledge drive  —  One of the winners of the January 25 uprisings in Egypt — besides, of course, the people of Egypt — has been Andy Carvin.  NPR's social media guru has been doing an exemplary job of curating social media to report on a weeks-long protest …
PR Newswire:
Pandora Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering  —  Pandora Media, Inc. ("Pandora") today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock.
Emily Bell / Guardian:
Can Google provide neutral news?  —  The search engine's foray into the Egypt crisis with SayNow shows how it is becoming an active ingredient in political debate  —  It is hard to think of many American business executives who have been detained for dissent against repressive regimes.
Hollywood Reporter:
Television Business Scribe Lacey Rose Joins The Hollywood Reporter … The Hollywood Reporter is pleased to announce that Lacey Rose is joining the staff as a senior writer for the expanding television department.  —  Rose was a staff writer at Forbes magazine, where she most recently covered the business of television.
Discussion: Moneywood
Marc Settle / BBC College of Journalism Blog:
Why small devices are big news for journalists  —  The great and the good in the world of mobile devices are heading to Barcelona for their annual shindig, the Mobile World Congress.  Many are likely to be in good cheer following the news this week that sales of mobiles in 2010 had increased by some 32% on the figure for 2009.
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:
Spam, technology and a bloody tough week  —  It's the end of a long working week, one that has been dominated by behavioural problems masquerading as technical ones.  We've had a number of very intense spam attacks on our blog farm here, and it's taken both a number of technical efforts …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Gawker's Nick Denton: See, You Ingrates?  This Is What We're Trying to Do (Video)  —  Gawker Media's Nick Denton has spent much of the week responding to whiny readers and armchair Web designers who don't like his sites' new look.  —  If you didn't know any better, you'd think the publishing impresario …
Nat Worden / FoxBusiness.com:
News Corp CEO Murdoch Makes Largest Stock Purchase In Years  —  NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- News Corp. (NWS, NWSA) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch acquired nearly $20.2 million worth of nonvoting stock in his media empire, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and FishbowlNY
J.B. / Babbage:
Hot news v new media  —  EVERY journalist loves a scoop.  Lawyers are starting to love them too.  They are hoping to use a 1918 decision from America's Supreme Court, stemming from an argument over war coverage between William Randolph Hearst (pictured above), a press baron, and the Associated Press …
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
The Daily vanishes into the memory hole  —  The Daily blog crowed about their three, count 'em, three different news covers yesterday tracking the fast-metamorphosing Egypt story.  And they got some props for it from folks like PaidContent's Stacy Kramer.  Today, they're proudly showing …
Discussion: The Daily and magCulture.com/blog
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:   ‘The Daily’ Updates Its Glitchy App—And Shows It Can Keep Up With News
 
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why an expansion of low-power radio stations could mean good things …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
The New York Times Literally Sets Out to Discover Brooklyn
Discussion: New York Times and Gawker
Mike Farrell / Multichannel:
Discovery to Pump $50M into OWN
Discussion: MediaPost
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Interview: BBC iPlayer Boss Says All Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter Tells Advertisers to Dig Deeper: “Promoted Trends” Get a Price Hike
Discussion: Techland and Pulse2
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Startup Challenges Murdoch's Daily to Drop the App and Try the Web
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Poynter
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
The state of play for paid content, 2011
 Earlier Picks: 
Katya Wachtel / The Wire:
My Night With Piers Morgan
Discussion: The Wrap, Piers Morgan and Dealbreaker
Joel Meares / CJR:
Meet the Iowa Press
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Jonathan Van Meter / Vogue.com:
Lady Gaga: Our Lady of Pop
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Web Words That Lure the Readers
Dan Frommer / The Wire:
Groupon Pulls Those Super Bowl Ads, CEO Feels “Terrible That We Made You Feel Bad”
The Wire:
HUFFINGTON POST: We're Done With Being Left — Now We're Just Going To Be Right
Discussion: Poynter