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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
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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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
 
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David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
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Discussion: The Wrap
Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
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Discussion: Business Week, ZDNet, GigaOM and VentureBeat
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Self-publishing site Lulu drops DRM on ebooks, sort of
Discussion: MediaShift, Good E-Reader and Lulu Blog