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4:05 PM ET, March 10, 2011

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: AOL Will Lay Off Several Hundred Employees, Starting Tomorrow — The AOL layoffs are finally here, and they are smaller than some had been expecting. — According to several people close to the situation, the New York-based Internet giant will lay off up to several hundred …

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

THE GORY DETAILS: Tim Armstrong's Layoffs Memo — UPDATE: We've been covering AOL's layoffs all morning long. Below is a memo from CEO Tim Armstrong detailing what's happening. — Other stories we've covered: — AOL is planning a big re-org in its tech division, with HuffPo's people getting a bigger role.

Discussion: Mediaite and MediaNama, more at Techmeme »

David Kaplan / paidContent:

@ Media Summit: AOL's Armstrong: Layoffs Today, Hiring Tomorrow — AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage at Bloomberg Media Summit and confirmed last night's big news: the company is cutting 900 jobs, laying off 400 people and outsourcing 300 in India and laying off 200 U.S. staffers in media and tech.

Discussion: BoomTown, Mediaweek, Future of Journalism and Poynter

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of AOL/Patch buying Outside.in — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — There are two ways to be local, we've learned.

Discussion: Bloggasm

Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:
AOL To Slash More Destination Sites And Media Brands Than Expected

Discussion: SAI

Bill Keller / New York Times:

All the Aggregation That's Fit to Aggregate — According to the list makers at Forbes, I am the 50th most powerful person in the world — not as powerful as the Pope (No. 5) but more powerful than the president of the United Arab Emirates (56). Vanity Fair, another arbiter of what matters …

Discussion: On Media's Blog, FishbowlNY, MediaPost, @jeffjarvis and SAI

TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Is About To Make Headlines — Editor's note: The following guest post was written by Mrinal Desai, an early employee of LinkedIn who is also co-founder of CrossLoop and addappt. You can follow him on Twitter. — A lot has been written about social news and how Twitter and Facebook …

Discussion: The LinkedIn Blog, paidContent, SAI, The Wire, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GigaOM, NetworkEffect and Bloggasm, more at Techmeme »

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn unveils its social newspaper, LinkedIn Today

Discussion: TechCrunch and Black Web 2.0, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Video Kills the Radio Czar — CEO Is Second NPR Executive to Resign Following Activist's Sting Operation — The head of National Public Radio quit under fire as the organization became ensnared in a fresh scandal at a time when Congress is debating whether to pull its government funding.

Discussion: American Journalism Review, BoomTown, Hit & Run and Poynter

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
It's Time For NPR to Get Off the Government Payroll

Discussion: Pressthink, rbr.com, The Atlantic Online, Washington Examiner, NPR, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Tuned In, Epicenter, GroundReport.com, MediaPost, On Media's Blog, The Huffington Post, MediaFile, Broadcasting & Cable, The Atlantic Wire, Weigel and Jezebel

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments. — Once or twice a week, I get a letter taking me to task for Slate's commenting policy. The reader wants to tell me that I suck, but he doesn't want to log in to Slate's comment system using his credentials for Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Twitter.

Thanks:malliegator

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

NY Times responds to backlash against portrayal of 11-year-old rape victim — The New York Times came under attack Wednesday from bloggers claiming that James C. McKinley Jr.'s disturbing March 8 article about the alleged gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl laid blame on the prepubescent victim.

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, New York Times, mediabistro.com, Salon, The Atlantic Wire, Jezebel and New York Magazine

Tim Carmody / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“Journalists have lost control of the story”: Twitter, tech bubbles, and the nostalgia of the technology press — Editor's Note: I'm very happy to welcome Tim Carmody — who you may know from Snarkmarket, kottke.org, Wired.com, Twitter, or elsewhere — as a contributor to the Lab.

Discussion: TVNewser

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

The Guardian's Paul Lewis on crowd-sourcing investigative journalism with Twitter … Last week I attended an event at the Royal Statistical Society looking at data and news sourcing, and one of the panel sessions was about crowd-sourcing using the internet.

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Race to Build the “Daily Me” Continues — Ever since the web first started to become mainstream, there have been attempts to build the “Daily Me,” a personalized newspaper that learns what you like or are interested in (does anyone remember PointCast?).

Discussion: Stowe Boyd, PR Newswire, MarketingVOX, Scobleizer and App Advice, Thanks:jeff_nadler

BBC:

Gaddafi forces beat up BBC team — Goktay Koraltan and Feras Killani said other detainees had been badly beaten — Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's security forces detained and beat up a BBC news team who were trying to reach the strife-torn western city of Zawiya.

Discussion: New York Times, Yahoo! News, Time, AOL News, Lens, The Lede, Guardian, War in Context and Jon Slattery

Clay Duda / Center for Sustainable Journalism:

The Future of News is Fit to Print — Dan Robrish, Editor and Publisher of the Elizabethtown (Pa.) Advocate — Future of journalism theorists, brace yourself: — Meet former AP reporter Dan Robrish. For the past 14 months he's been the ‘Editor and Publisher’ of the The Elizabethtown Advocate …

John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC World Service Arabic cuts not as ‘severe as planned’ — Africa and Middle East political crises force change but wholesale reversal of alterations to Arabic operations ruled out — The BBC's global news director Peter Horrocks has indicated a further U-turn over planned cuts …

Discussion: Media Network