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9:45 AM ET, March 9, 2012

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Media Decoder:
New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media  —  The newest owner of The New Republic magazine is Chris Hughes, a new-media guru who co-founded Facebook and helped to run the online organizing machine for Barack Obama's presidential campaign.  —  Mr. Hughes's purchase of a majority stake …
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The New Republic:
Home News: A Letter to TNR Readers from Chris Hughes  —  To the Readers of The New Republic:  —  Nearly 100 years ago, the founding editors of The New Republic wrote these words to introduce their inaugural issue: … A century later, people are once again skeptical that quality journalism can flourish.
Discussion: The Awl, Poynter, NPR and The Next Web
Tim Carmody / Wired:
I Think It Would Be Fun To Run the New Republic: Chris Hughes as Charles Foster Kane  —  A young man comes into a great fortune.  He could invest that fortune and his own formidable energy in profitable ventures: gold mines, hedge funds or Silicon Valley startups.
Press Gazette:
First official figures give The Sun Sunday 3.2m circ  —  ABC today released the first official figures for The Sun Sunday - showing a launch circulation of 3,213,613 for the new title.  In its final month before it was closed the News of the World had an average monthly circulation of 2,667,428.
Discussion: Guardian
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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Sun on Sunday: £45m a year down versus the News of the World?  —  Early financial estimates demonstrate the ongoing cost of the phone-hacking affair for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp  —  Week three is the big test for the Sun's Sunday edition.  You couldn't have missed its promotional campaign …
Guardian:
Ofcom steps up test of James Murdoch's fitness to keep BSkyB role  —  Media regulator's Project Apple examines phone-hacking evidence to decide on 39-year-old's stewardship  —  Ofcom has stepped up its investigation into whether James Murdoch is a “fit and proper” person to sit on the board of BSkyB …
Discussion: Reuters
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Injunction threat over Will Lewis security blog post
Discussion: Neville Thurlbeck
Stephen Parkinson / Telegraph:
Phone hacking: can these journalists really get a fair trial?
Discussion: CJR, Guardian and Jon Slattery
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Alleged to Hack Family Priest's Line
Discussion: The Next Web and Guardian
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror journalists may be victims of NoW phone hacking - police
Discussion: Big News Network.com and Guardian
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Comcast Declines to Offer Netflix to Its Customers  —  Netflix may have hit a snag as it negotiates with cable operators.  —  Comcast, the country's largest cable company, says it has no interest in offering Netflix to its Xfinity subscribers regardless of whether it's in the form of an on-demand service or a billing partnership.
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Yinka Adegoke / MediaFile:
Could a Netflix-cable alliance spur HBO to go rogue?
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
With Interest Lists, Facebook Wants to Be a Personalized Newspaper  —  First we had Twitter Lists.  Then Facebook Friends lists.  Then smart lists.  And now, Facebook is introducing Interest lists as a way to push relevant content up in the increasingly cluttered news feed.
Nielsen Wire:
Buzz in the Blogosphere: Millions More Bloggers and Blog Readers  —  Blogs are sometimes overlooked as a significant source of online buzz in comparison to social networking sites, yet consumer interest in blogs keeps growing.  By the end of 2011, NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company …
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Turner launches an accelerator for media-focused startups  —  Like most big media companies, Turner Broadcasting might not exactly be known for its technology innovation.  But it's looking to change that, with the launch of a new accelerator program called Media Camp, which hopes to seek …
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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
PRX hires Silicon Valley journopreneur Corey Ford to run the Public Media Accelerator
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Amazon is creating a very large silo you can't escape from, say book industry chiefs  —  Internet giant Amazon is creating a ‘locked’ silo which users can't escape, according to a panel of publishing industry heads.  —  Amazon was apparently invited to join this particular panel discussion …
Discussion: TabTimes
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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Apple Downplays Role Of ‘Kindle Threat’ In Alleged e-Book Conspiracy
Discussion: CNET, Gizmodo and GigaOM
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Newspapers Are The Fastest Shrinking Industry In The U.S.  —  If you want to be a journalist, think online.  —  Newspapers have shed a greater percentage of jobs since 2007 than any other industry in the United States, according to data published today by LinkedIn.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
TV Power NBC Universal Joins Web Video ‘Upfront’  —  Owner of TV Networks to Display Digital Content Alongside YouTube, Yahoo and Hulu  —  The confederation of internet companies planning two weeks of “upfront” presentations for advertisers this spring are getting an unexpected new member: NBC Universal.
Discussion: Media & Entertainment, Thanks:@learmonth
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
NewsiT Raises $500K To Gamify Crowd Journalism  —  Crowdsourced news platform NewsiT.net just announced that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding.  And, timed to match the beginning of South by Southwest, it's also launching its iPhone app.  —  The company was founded …
Discussion: VatorNews
Verne Gay / Newsday:
Matt Lauer getting $25 million to stay on ‘Today,’ source says  —  Matt Lauer getting $25 million to stay on ‘Today,’ source says  —  I am reliably told that NBC and Matt Lauer are closing in on a deal that will pay him an estimated $25 million per year over the course of a multiyear deal …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Germany Wants To Charge Search Engines To Use News Excerpts  —  Germany's government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material.  —  Its coalition committee has resolved that a collecting society should charge royalties to re-publishers of news material.
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Reporters' Lab searches for ways to make reporting cheaper, without cheapening the reporting  —  Labs are all the rage in journalism these days.  There's the Drone Journalism Lab, the Globe Lab, WaPo Labs, the New York Times R&D Lab, and more.  —  Duke University's newly launched Reporters' Lab …
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Yahoo Sets Out to ‘Remake’ Yahoo News  —  Remake America is a new weekly series that will trace six middle-class families as they struggle to deal with a still-recovering U.S. economy.  The documentary-styled show will run through the remainder of the year, examining how these families cope …
Discussion: Beet.TV and FishbowlLA
 
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