Mediagazer: Report: Newseum cuts about 30 jobs (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

2:25 PM ET, January 10, 2013

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Report: Newseum cuts about 30 jobs — The Newseum eliminated some jobs Wednesday: About 30 of 150, the Gannett Blog reports: … In a statement, the Washington, D.C., museum says the cuts were part of a “restructuring,” and that new hires will get the museum back to its pre-layoff staffing level.

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Jim Hopkins / Gannett Blog:

Freedom Forum paid new CEO Duff $1.6M in 2011, documents show, amid signs of more fiscal distress — The financially troubled non-profit foundation paid CEO James Duff $1.6 million during his first four months on the job in 2011, a year when the Newseum's operator ran a $47 million deficit, newly released public documents show.

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon “AutoRip” Service Goes Live — Giving Customers Free MP3s For CDs Purchased On Amazon As Far Back As 1998 (Hands-On) - Amazon is today introducing a new service called Amazon AutoRip, which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazon since the launch of its Music Store back in 1998.

Discussion: Amazon.com, AllThingsD, Pocket-lint, Lifehacker and parislemon

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

Amazon Should AutoRip All The Books You've Bought To Your Kindle — Amazon recently announced a new feature called AutoRip that provides CD buyers with free digital copies of those tracks. — As the name suggests, it just offers as a convenience what CD owners can do to copy songs …

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning? — The extremist prosecution of Manning, accused of “aiding and abetting al-Qaida”, poses a real threat to US press freedom — There are numerous travesties defining the ongoing prosecution …

Discussion: New York Times, The Huffington Post, Capital New York, The New Yorker Blog, Business Insider, Daily Kos and Pressing Issues

Guardian:

Police officer found guilty of trying to sell information to News of the World — Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn offered details of phone-hacking investigation to tabloid in return for payment — A senior counter-terrorism detective has been found guilty of trying to sell information to the News of the World newspaper.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Sky News, Daily Mail, Telegraph, London Evening Standard, @tom_watson and ITV News

Janet Stilson / Adweek:

Why do community news sites, once hailed as the future of journalism, so often flop? — Spelunking equipment, climbing gear and snowshoes are Steve Sutorius' life. That's clear watching him as he peddles outdoor-sports merchandise in his shop, Wildernest, on this 10-mile-long jewel in Puget Sound just off the coast from Seattle.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Beats' New Music Subscription Service Gets a New Boss: Topspin's Ian Rogers — There are a ton of digital music services out there, with more on the way. — So how will Beats Electronics, the headphone maker, stand out when it rolls out its own version this year? — The company won't spell that out quite yet.

Discussion: Media Decoder, FISTFULAYEN and The Next Web

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Henry Blodget isn't telling us the most important thing about Business Insider — Business Insider founder Henry Blodget has pulled aside the curtain — or the kimono, as he likes to call it — to tell us all about how well the site is doing, courtesy of a presentation he put together for Folio magazine.

Discussion: PandoDaily and Adweek

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

NYT public editor: Sometimes transparency triumphs over objectivity — Is the status of objectivity as a sacrosanct principle of the journalism industry beginning to weaken? There have been some encouraging signs lately, not the least of which are some recent blog posts …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Boing Boing

Maggie Lu Yueyang / Reuters:

Australian pension fund pulls out of News Corp after failure to oust Murdoch — (Reuters) - An Australian pension fund said on Thursday that it would sell down its A$7 million (4.6 million pounds) stake in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O), following the failure of proposals for a more independent board at the media empire.

Discussion: ABC News, Bloomberg, The Australian, Hollywood Reporter, Sydney Morning Herald and Deadline.com

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Digg's Users Doubled Since August, Now Has Over 10 Million User Emails On File — Digg today took to its blog to share a bit of information about its user growth and monetization plans, now that it's been at Betaworks for nearly six months. The company said that Digg's user base has doubled since …

Discussion: Digg Blog, The Verge, Mashable! and WebProNews

Alexander Rankine / Guardian:

Oxford students to protest at Assange ‘visit’ — A row has erupted on campus over an invitation to Julian Assange to address the Oxford Union via video link — Outraged Oxford students are planning demonstrations following news that Julian Assange, the controversial Wikileaks founder …

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

I think your Tweet needs more Franzen: Paragraph Shorts brings short fiction into the social sharing age — In 2003, Ziv Navoth sat down and wrote a short story. The next day, he wrote another. And then the next. He repeated the pattern for about another 180 days …

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Mashable! and paidContent