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7:15 AM ET, March 13, 2012

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Twitter Blog:
Welcoming the Posterous team to the flock  —  Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to Twitter.  This team has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the web and mobile devices simple—a goal we share.  Posterous engineers, product managers and others …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now  —  Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’, with Twitter interested mostly in the people, not the product.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Six arrested under Operation Weeting  —  Arrests in London, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Hertfordshire on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice  —  Six people have been arrested by Metropolitan police detectives investigating phone hacking.
Discussion: @skymartinbrunt
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Sky News:
Sky Sources: Brooks Among Hacking Arrests  —  Former News Of The World editor Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband Charlie are among six people arrested by police investigating phone hacking, according to Sky sources.  Police said five men and one woman were detained on suspicion …
Discussion: @dansabbagh
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
IAC Chairman Diller Sees Aereo TV Service in Up to 100 Cities Within Year  —  Barry Diller, the billionaire chairman of IAC/InteractiveCorp.  (IACI), expects his Aereo Inc. Web- based television service to be in 75 to 100 cities within a year after making its debut this week in New York.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Aereo files countersuit against broadcasters
Wall Street Journal:
Intel Developing Web-Based TV Service  —  Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.
CNN:
FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwaves  —  Limbaugh has long history of hate speech.  FCC should ask: Are stations carrying him are acting “in public interest,” writers say.  —  Editor's note: Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem are the Co-Founders of the Women's Media Center.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh
The Huffington Post:
CNN Lifts Roland Martin's Suspension  —  CNN announced on Monday that it has lifted its suspension on political analyst Roland Martin.  —  According to Fishbowl DC, the network announced the news during a conference call Monday morning.  —  Martin was suspended shortly after Super Bowl Sunday …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
We Don't Need No Stinking Seal of Approval from the Blog Police  —  David Carr's column today is partly about a plan masterminded by Ad Age columnist Simon Dumenco to create, quote, a “Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation,” which will ostensibly serve as a sort of trade group or …
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Netflix Quietly Launches TV Network-Branded Pages  —  Could Complicate Stance as Complementary to TV Distributors  —  Comcast, cablevision, cox and ... Netflix?  —  Netflix has been careful to describe itself as a complement to cable distributors, but as it quietly tests network-branded pages …
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Behind the Birth of a Sports-Media Bet for the YouTube Era  —  SB Nation Rolls Out Original Programming in One of Video Site's Bold Premium Content Plays  —  “The Internet's not working,” said Jim Bankoff.  —  It was March 1, and the Vox Media CEO had just arrived by train from the company's Washington, D.C., headquarters.
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Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Building a digital media empire: SB Nation and The Verge owner Vox Media raises $17 million
Discussion: VentureBeat
Bloomberg:
Yahoo Accuses Facebook in Suit of Infringing Advertising-Related Patents  —  Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) sued Facebook Inc. (FB) over allegations it infringed patents covering functions critical to websites, including Internet advertising, information sharing and privacy.
Sean Roach / CJR:
The Constant Gardener  —  My two years tending AOL's hyperlocal experiment  —  My employment with Patch started with a handshake and a promise that I would be called with a job offer in the next few days.  I had met with Patch's editor in chief, Brian Farnham, at the company's New York headquarters.
Discussion: Poynter
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
E-Book Smackdown: Who Should Control Pricing—Publishers Or Amazon?  —  A couple of years ago, with Amazon steadily pushing down the prices of e-books, the fortunes of the big book publishers were sinking fast.  Then Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) came along and helped enable publishers to set their own prices for their e-books across platforms.
Joanna Walters / Guardian:
Mourners say farewell to Colvin  —  Rupert Murdoch among those at Long Island funeral for war correspondent who was killed trying to escape Homs shelling  —  Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times war correspondent whose reputation for covering difficult stories in the world's most dangerous places …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
As Marie Colvin is laid to rest, news organizations assess the dangers of reporting from inside Syria
Discussion: BBC, Reuters and Washington Post
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times Editor Jill Abramson Stays Humble at SXSW  —  Here's one way to gauge how big SXSW Interactive has gotten: The executive editor of The New York Times is taking three days off from overseeing All The News That's Fit To Print to come down to Austin, give a talk and take in a few panels — and maybe to catch a Jay-Z show.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Exclusive: Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles  —  When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Singles program a little over a year ago, nobody knew whether there was a market for e-books that are shorter than full-length books but longer than most magazine articles.
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Exclusive: How Much Do Kindle Singles Authors Make?
Discussion: The Awl
 
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Dan Rosenblum / Capital New York:
‘NYT Magazine’ editor Hugo Lindgren thinks he possibly ‘blew it’ …
Nieman Journalism Lab:
A call for leadership: Newspaper execs deserve the blame for not changing the culture
Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Berkeley police chief's call on reporter draws fire
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Sun on Sunday and rivals share sales uplift
Joe Flint / Company Town:
Netflix cable platform may be a long way off
Discussion: ReveNews
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Natalie Peck / Hacking inquiry:
Former Home Secretary rejected plans for full investigation into phone hacking, Leveson hears
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU open to settlement with e-book publishers
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Hulu Announces a Deal for Selling Its Original Shows Overseas
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Gregg Birnbaum named deputy managing editor at POLITICO
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Is PayPal Preparing To Reverse Its Erotica E-book Stance? The EFF Has A ‘Good Feeling’
Discussion: TeleRead