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12:55 PM ET, January 30, 2013

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Matt K. Lewis / The Week:
Why I hate Twitter  —  The social sharing tool was once a vision.  Now it's a prison  —  S  —  oren Dayton and Rob Bluey — two conservative tech geniuses — talked me into joining Twitter during a lunch Ed Morrissey organized at an Iraqi restaurant in Minneapolis during the 2008 Republican convention.
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Time Inc. Said to Eliminate About 6% of Workforce  —  Time Inc. (TWX), the largest magazine publisher in the U.S., is eliminating about 500 positions, or 6 percent of its workforce, according to two executives with direct knowledge of the firings.  —  The job cuts occurred across …
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Wall Street Journal:
Time Inc. Cutting Staff  —  Time Inc. began a wave of staff reductions Wednesday morning that are expected to eliminate about 500 jobs, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the country's largest magazine group grapples with declines in print advertising.
Discussion: @keachhagey and Politico
Jon Bernstein / Press Gazette:
'We're not trying to beat the Huffington Post'  —  Chris Hughes, from Facebook to New Republic  —  Question: How do you reinvigorate a 98-year old US news and current affairs magazine for the digital age?  —  Answer: Hire a 29 year-old former Facebook executive.  Naturally.
Discussion: NPR and Canadian Magazines
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Jack Shafer:
Unsolicited advice for New Republic owner Chris Hughes  —  For more than a century, rich guys who think they're smarter than the rich guys who came before them have been buying money-losing publications under the impression that by spending more money than their deep-pocketed predecessors, they'll turn the red ink black.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Amazon Makes Murmurs About Its Video Business  —  Netflix added a bunch of streaming video subscribers in the last quarter.  How did rival Amazon do?  —  Who knows?  Amazon is fiercely dedicated to the notion that it won't say squat about its business, and things stayed true to form during yesterday's earnings call.
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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Bezos: With ebook sales up 70% in 2012, Amazon has hit “transition” it expected
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Amazon rides a razor-thin wave back to profit in first full quarter of new Kindles
Discussion: ZDNet and The Next Web
The Huffington Post:
Fox News Ratings Hit 12-Year Demo Lows In January Cable News Figures  —  At the end of each month, cable news ratings are released to the public.  And, like clockwork, Fox News dominates the top 13 or so programs, far outstripping its competitors.  —  January was ... a little different.
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Kill the pageview: 29th Street Publishing looks to profit off small and good  —  Maura Johnston, founding editor of Gawker's now-defunct Idolator and more recently the music editor at the Village Voice, is now a micro-publisher.  The independent writer is four issues into her new periodical …
Discussion: magCulture.com/blog
Jim Romenesko:
Jessica Lustig named Village Voice deputy editor  —  Magazine veteran Jessica Lustig has been named Village Voice deputy editor.  From the release: … At the Voice, she'll assign and edit features, help direct arts and culture coverage, run the food blog, and recruit new freelancers.
David Holmes / PandoDaily:
Washington Post's Truth Teller and the future of robots doing journalism  —  At some point in the history of letters, fact-checking went from a foundational part of journalism to a specialization practiced by few to a buzzwordy media trend, alternately praised and dismissed depending on what politician was getting called out.
Discussion: 10,000 Words, paidContent and Poynter
BBC:
Ukraine Gongadze case: Court convicts journalist's killer  —  Olexiy Pukach is a former police general  —  A Ukrainian court has convicted a former police chief of murdering journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000, a crime which rocked the country.  —  The court in Kiev found that Olexiy Pukach …
Nancy Hass / GQ:
Reed Hastings on Arrested Development, House of Cards, and the Future of Netflix Movies  —  The quirky little start-up that once printed money by mailing you DVDs is hell-bent on morphing into the HBO—and the network, and the any-show, any-time streaming service—of tomorrow.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle  —  Like plenty of music fans, Sam Broe jumped at the chance to join Spotify two summers ago, and he hasn't looked back.  —  Spotify, which began streaming music in Sweden in 2008, lets users choose from millions of songs over the Internet free …
Discussion: Quartz and Business Insider
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Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Streaming and Micropennies: The Footnotes
Discussion: VentureBeat
 
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Murdoch faces more uncertainty over Times and Sunday Times appointments
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Now recording: Knight funds an app for collecting oral histories
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Why an ‘average’ journalism grad's salary might not be an average salary where you work
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘New York Post’ getting a web overhaul from the team that brought you the new ‘New Republic’
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Who Wants to Be Hulu CEO?
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Sunday Times editor apologises over Benjamin Netanyahu cartoon
Discussion: CNN, @jeffjarvis, Haaretz and Guardian
Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Most newspaper stories are still too long
Discussion: The Buttry Diary and @nikkiusher