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6:00 PM ET, March 10, 2012

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times CEO Robinson's Exit Compensation Package Tops $23 Million  —  Janet Robinson, the New York Times Co. chief executive officer who was pushed out in December, received an exit package, including stock options and retirement benefits, of more than $23 million.
Discussion: Reuters, Deadline.com and Media Decoder
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
‘Kony 2012’: Two sides to being a digital media sensation  —  ‘Kony 2012’ is a YouTube success, but Invisible Children finds that digital media attention can be a double-edged sword as its detractors rise.  —  Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, during a meeting with a delegation …
Pulse:
Pulse Goes Local: Discover What's Happening Around You  —  Today we're launching Local, a brand new category providing a simple and effective way to discover what's happening around you.  With everything from breaking news, sports, food and deals, Pulse Local will always keep you in the know …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Twitter's Secret History As the World's Worst Tech or Media Business  —  Twitter Inc.'s been spinning quite a turnaround story in the press lately.  The microblogging service “has finally turned a corner,” declares the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek.  “It's a juggernaut,” a company executive tells the magazine.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter's Ad Sales Are Booming, Says Gawker
Discussion: Business Insider
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Billboard Publisher, Editor Out, Other Top Staffers Follow  —  Billboard Magazine is bleeding top talent, with publisher Lisa Ryan Howard and editor-in-chief Danyel Smith handing in their walking papers, TheWrap has learned.  —  In addition, deputy editor Lou Hau and other high-level staffers …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Obama did in fact enjoy a ‘media honeymoon’ with New York Times, says study  —  Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter used content analysis, “a technique that allows researchers to classify statements objectively and systematically according to explicit rules and clear criteria,” …
The Huffington Post:
Louis C.K. Drops Out Of Congressional Correspondents Dinner After Fox News Host Complains  —  Louis C.K. has dropped out of hosting the Radio & Television Congressional Correspondents dinner after Fox News host Greta Van Susteren threatened to not attend.  —  C.K.'s take-no-prisoners brand …
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Vevo redesigns to become MTV for the online generation  —  Over the past two years, Vevo has become the default place to watch music online.  But, like many other streaming video providers, it had a problem: For users, the act of watching videos tends to be a very disjointed process.
Discussion: VEVO and MediaFile
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Politico Planning Big Slate of Web Video Shows  —  WASHINGTON — Seeing an emerging playing field where Internet delivered video news will eventually be on par with cable, Politico will broadly expand its video programming this year, says Jim VandeHei, Executive Editor, in this interview with Beet.TV
Discussion: FishbowlDC, Thanks:@beet_tv
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
For tablet computer visionary Roger Fidler, a lot of what-ifs  —  COLUMBIA, Mo. — Roger Fidler, in jeans and a black turtleneck, is watching Steve Jobs, in jeans and a black turtleneck, introduce the iPad.  Fidler is sitting in his stark white office — the late Apple co-founder adored white's simplicity …
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.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Everything that converges must be workshopped: New York media flees town for SXSW conference  —  Sultan Al Qassemi, the Dubai-based Arab affairs commentator who was one of a handful of online personas to make a name for themselves last year via their 140-character coverage of the uprisings in the Middle East …
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Yahoo Eyes More TV Partners as Layoffs Loom  —  A Content Deal With ABC News as a Model for Others  —  Amid a swirl of speculation about layoffs that could run as high as 1,000, Yahoo is pushing further into original video programming and discussing possible partnerships with TV networks beyond its current deal with ABC News.
Thanks:@delrey
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: Media Week and Guardian
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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:   Sun on Sunday: £45m a year down versus the News of the World?
 
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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: nearly £2m spent on press investigation since last summer
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
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