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7:40 AM ET, March 21, 2012

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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
BSkyB announces Now TV, offering pay-as-you-go Internet TV to the masses  —  The Next Web is at the Guardian Changing Media Summit this week, a conference promising to deliver insights from the organisations and individuals capitalising on disruption within the digital content space.
Discussion: The Verge
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Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:
BSkyB CEO confirms he pulled Sky News story on F1  —  Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting, has confirmed that he asked Sky News to pull a story on Formula 1, ahead of the launch of a Sky F1 HD channel.  —  The Financial Times yesterday reported that Darroch …
Discussion: paidContent and Digital Spy
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BSkyB denies pulled F1 story undermines Sky News's independence  —  Broadcaster's chief steps in after complaint from Formula One production team about article written by Mark Kleinman  —  BSkyB has denied the decision by its chief executive to order a story to be removed from the Sky News website …
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
LA Times posts reporter opening - the day before layoffs *  —  The involuntary layoffs in the Los Angeles Times newsroom that began last night are rolling through the ranks today, falling hardest on the features floor downstairs from the main newsroom.  As many as 20 people may be out, sources there say.
Discussion: The Wrap and Talking Biz News
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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Los Angeles Times Cuts Staff Again (Exclusive)
Discussion: LA Observed
McKay Coppins / Buzzfeed:
Story About White House Scrubbing Obama Daughter Travel Story Has Now Been Scrubbed  —  The White House's campaign to scrub a story from the internet yesterday about Malia Obama's trip to Mexico has gone meta: a media reporter's blog post about the administration's efforts to scrub the story …
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Press Gazette:
Press Awards: The full list of winners  —  The Daily Mail led the way at tonight's Press Awards - scooping Newspaper of the Year, Website of the Year and News Team of the Year.  It also picked up Campaign of the Year and the Cudlipp Award, while writer Craig Brown won Columnist of the Year …
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Daniel Victor / ProPublica:
If TV Stations Won't Post Their Data on Political Ads, We Will  —  Every local broadcast station has a repository of documents about political advertising that you have a legal right to see, but are accessible only by physically traveling to the station and asking to see “the public file.”
David Weigel / Slate:
The Media Shouldn't Apologize for Reporting What Voters Actually Say  —  And the journalists who report on them don't need to apologize for it.  —  If you don't hate Alexandra Pelosi, you hate America.  A week ago, Pelosi delivered a micro-documentary to Real Time With Bill Maher about angry …
Zach Christman / nbcchicago.com:
Police Handcuff NBC Chicago Photojournalist  —  Police release media members after about 10 minutes  —  Chicago police took two members of the media into custody Saturday, including an NBC Chicago photographer.  —  Photographer Donte Williams and WGN Reporter Dan Ponce were detained …
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Co. Said to Focus on External CEO Candidates  —  New York Times Co. (NYT), which hired executive-recruiting firm Spencer Stuart to conduct a search for a new CEO, is focusing on external candidates, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.
Discussion: Politico and Poynter
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Corey Pein / Willamette Week:
A Newsman's Secret  —  The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl.  —  Over the past two weeks, readers of The Oregonian have witnessed an extraordinary episode in the newspaper's 162-year history.  —  On March 10, Bob Caldwell, a respected Oregon journalist …
Discussion: Poynter
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
ASME Names Digital ‘Ellies’ Winners ‘New York’ magazine, Condé Nast's ‘Wired’ win multiple awards By Emma Bazilian  —  Condé Nast's Wired and New York magazine were the big winners of the American Society of Magazine Editors' 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media …
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Baltimore Sun columnist confesses to recycling passages from old columns  —  A recent column from longtime Baltimore Sun columnist Jacques Kelly includes a surprising admission in the third paragraph: … Kelly's column doesn't explain why he confessed now, or if he faced any disciplinary action for his recycling.
 
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