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9:35 AM ET, April 27, 2012

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Nick Denton / Gawker:
Why Anonymity Matters  —  Gawker Media is flying in the face of conventional media wisdom.  While other outlets are doing away with anonymity, we've built anonymous accounts into our new comment system.  We'll accept some disorder if that's the price of freedom in one's personal life, in politics and the press.
Discussion: Guardian
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:   Nick Denton Is Crushing BuzzFeed And Jonah Peretti Right Now In Gawker's Comments
Jennifer Preston / The Lede:
Rupert Murdoch on the Future of News … On Thursday, the second day of Rupert Murdoch's testimony in London during a British inquiry into media ethics, he took a question about new regulations on the press to expound at some length on the future of journalism.
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Erik Wemple:
Murdoch flatters Huffington Post
Discussion: Politico and Politico
Estelle Shirbon / Reuters:
Hunter turns hunted as Murdoch “harassed” by press
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
How tech's giants want to re-invent journalism  —  Some of Silicon Valley's biggest technology companies reject suggestions they are now news organisations.  —  But they nevertheless think they have the prescription for what news media must do next...  First, the disclosures …
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Are you a young dude interested in news?  All else equal, this study says you're a top paywall target  —  Here's a biggie: How do you get someone to pay for online news?  A new study (PDF here) out of the University of Texas develops a theoretical model to begin answering that question.
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
New York Times R&D Group Launches First Commercial Product (and It's for Brands)  —  Ricochet Helps Brands Drive Traffic to Relevant Articles, Surrounded by the Right Ads  —  The New York Times R&D Lab has spent the last six and a half years building what its chief calls the equivalent of “concept cars” for the media world.
Guardian:
Jeremy Hunt to hand over all relevant BSkyB emails and texts  —  Culture secretary to give messages he sent to Adam Smith and News Corp executives about takeover bid to Leveson inquiry  —  Jeremy Hunt, the embattled culture secretary, is to disclose all his private correspondence over the BSkyB takeover deal to the Leveson inquiry.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Thurlbeck will not be prosecuted over witness intimidation claims  —  The former News of the World chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, will not be prosecuted over claims of witness intimidation relating to the phone-hacking scandal, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.
Discussion: BBC, Associated Press and Reuters
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Journatic founder: ‘Being based in the community is not beneficial’  —  Brian Timpone sounded frustrated by press coverage of Journatic when he commented on a Mathew Ingram post this morning linking to a story that mentioned the Chicago Tribune had tapped his company to operate its TribLocal network.
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Jim Romenesko:
Journatic CEO answers critics
Discussion: Mathew Ingram and Poynter
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
How Assignmint Will Change Freelance Journalism  —  A new startup hopes their integrated freelancer workflow and financials system will change the media industry.  —  New startup Assignmint has an ambitious goal: To change freelance journalism as we know it.
Discussion: newsplexer
Bloomberg:
Providence Said Selling Hulu Stake at $2 Billion Value  —  Hulu.com owners Walt Disney Co. (DIS), Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and News Corp. (NWSA) are close to buying out Providence Equity Partners Inc.'s stake at a price that values the company at $2 billion, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
Lauren Margolis / PhotoShelter Blog:
How The New York Times Does Social Media  —  To think that it's impossible to draw any parallels between your photography business and The New York Times is to be shortsighted.  What makes or breaks your business these days is whether you stand out from the crowd, and both you and NY Times need …
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
As news shifts toward mobile, will text alerts get left behind?  —  In a blast text message to subscribers on Tuesday afternoon, The Washington Post announced that it's...ending blast text messages to subscribers, on April 30.  So don't expect to get SMS headlines like “Mitt Romney sweeps GOP primaries in five states” for much longer.
Discussion: B2B Memes
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Wall Street Journal dives into live, continuous coverage with its new Markets Pulse stream  —  The Wall Street Journal on Monday unveiled Markets Pulse, a platform for a continuous flow of news — including blog posts, articles, videos, tweets, photos, and other elements …
 
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Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Groups Seek Senate Review of Universal-EMI Deal
Discussion: The Wrap
Reuters:
Judge won't dismiss key charge against WikiLeaks suspect
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Q1 2012: Revenue Up 34 Percent To $13.2B, Net Income Down 35 Percent
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Why Netflix can still win
Discussion: Seeking Alpha
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Dan Rosenblum / Capital New York:
Somber tones, and attacks on Rupert Murdoch, at Overseas Press Club awards gala
Discussion: Lists and Guardian
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Broadcasters' Last Ditch Push to Hide Political Ad Data
Jeevan Vasagar / Guardian:
News International offered to sponsor academy school
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Meet Liz McDougall, the unlikely-seeming lawyer defending Village Voice Media in Backpage controversy
Discussion: Politicker
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

 
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