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4:40 PM ET, January 10, 2013

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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
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
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Homicide Tracking Site Expanding to Chicago  —  Homicide Watch, the Washington, D.C., Web site that tracks murders, has found another crime-ridden city to cover.  —  The Chicago Sun-Times is partnering with Homicide Watch's co-founders, Laura and Chris Amico, to launch a Chicago edition.
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 …
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time Inc. Prepares for Layoffs  —  Time Inc. staff are on eggshells as they await news of layoffs and smaller bonuses than in years past as the company faces declining revenue.  —  CEO Laura Lang, in a memo yesterday, has already told employees she would eliminate the usual 3 percent merit increase …
Discussion: New York Post
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.
Jim Romenesko:
New York Times received 1,644 applications for 13 summer intern positions  —  After posting the Oregonian's summer internship rejection letter, which noted that the paper received nearly 200 applications, I wondered about the numbers from other newspapers and fired off some emails.  Here's what came back:
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.
Chicago Business Journal:
Warrant issued for former Tribune executive … Stephanie Pater missed a second scheduled court appearance in as many weeks, and so a warrant has been issued for her arrest, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.  —  The Tribune said Pater sent an email to an official at the court saying …
Erik Wemple:
A future for news at high-brow restaurants?  —  Leland Schwartz is trying to feed news to a tough crowd.  He knows that they're on top of the goings-on in Washington.  That's because they're the ones who are influencing the goings-on in Washington.  —  They're diners at the Old Ebbitt Grill …
Discussion: Washington Post, All and Poynter
Matt Yoder / Awful Announcing:
CNN moves forward with Bleacher Report replacing Sports Illustrated  —  One of the most widely discussed recent events in the online realm has been Turner's acquisition of Bleacher Report.  The marriage of a mainstream company with a decidedly new school (and yes, certainly polarizing) …
 
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Alexander Rankine / Guardian:
Oxford students to protest at Assange ‘visit’
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Aereo CEO: The Days of the $200 Cable Bundle Are Numbered
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Google's Gingras: Journalists need to focus on invention, not transformation
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Online radio will start serving ads based on your web browsing
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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
NYT public editor: Sometimes transparency triumphs over objectivity
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Lionsgate Lends A Hand To Samsung's 3D TV Technology: CES
Discussion: The Wrap
Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Publishing Projects Raised $15 Million on Kickstarter Last Year
Ben Kersey / The Verge:
JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
How does BuzzFeed intend to crack a $1B valuation? By embracing journalism's past
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Wired EIC Scott Dadich Names New Editorial Team
Discussion: Folio and MinOnline
Cory Bergman / Inside:
Why Twitter's army of ‘Mechanical Turks’ will not conquer breaking news
Discussion: Business Week, ZDNet, GigaOM and VentureBeat