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10:20 AM ET, February 7, 2013

Top News:

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Phone-hacking scandal: News Corp costs rise to $360m — Figures released by News Corp today reveal the enormous ongoing financial impact of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. — In the three months to 31 December the company incurred $56m (£35.7m) in costs relating to phone-hacking …

Discussion: Management Today, The Week UK, The Independent and Guardian

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

News Corp. says its split-up is on track — The separation of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. into two separate publicly traded companies is on track to be completed by the end of the current fiscal year, executives said today. — On a quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts …

Discussion: Poynter, Forbes, NetNewsCheck Latest, Media Week and New York Magazine

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
News Corp. Posts Gain on Strength of Cable Channels

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge, Home Media Magazine and The Wrap

Colin Kruger / Sydney Morning Herald:
News Corp shares fall as publishing struggles

Discussion: ninemsn, Crikey and Bloomberg

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

New York Times posts ho-hum numbers, slow digital growth — The New York Times Company posted earnings on Thursday morning that show the company's ongoing struggle to create significant growth in its digital operations. While circulation revenues continue to rise, all forms of advertising …

Discussion: The New York Times Company and CNET

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

The New York Times now boasts 668,000 paying digital subscribers, Q4 revenue rises to $575.8m — The New York Times Company today reported strong earnings for the fourth quarter of and full year 2012. — The publisher's total revenues increased 5.2 percent to $575.8 million from $547.4 million in Q4 2011 …

Discussion: Poynter, The Wrap, Bloomberg, New York Times and @edmundlee

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Business Insider vs. Digiday: One man's aggregation is another man's traffic hijacking — Plagiarism. Copyright infringement. Traffic hijacking. These are all terms publishers like to use when someone excerpts their content without permission, whether it's Google News or The Huffington Post.

Discussion: Poynter, PandoDaily and Digiday, Thanks:@mathewi

Henry Blodget / Business Insider: Thank You For Aggregating Us!

Ryan McCarthy / MediaFile:

Another blog post that won't make any money — It's been a strange and daunting decade for print journalism — it's now an even stranger time for web journalism. We've become accustomed to reading headlines like BuzzFeed's recent $19 million fund raising, followed by news of buyouts for veterans at the New York Times.

Discussion: @niemanlab, @wfrick, @mathewi and @jeffjarvis, Thanks:@mccarthyryanj

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Magazines React to Post Office Cutbacks: ‘The Friday Evening Post’? — Updated The magazine industry, which has already been hurt by advertising declines and the loss of readers, spent Wednesday afternoon reeling from the latest news that they no longer would be able to get magazines delivered on Saturdays.

Discussion: magazine.org, Democrat And Chronicle, Home Media Magazine, New Yorker, BtoB Magazine, AdAge, Politico and Poynter

Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:

How Jihadists Use Twitter, And Soon Even Instagram — A new research paper tracks how and why Al Qaeda-linked terrorist organizations and their sympathizers use social media. — Violent jihadists prefer foreign-language online web forums for their online social networking …

Discussion: The FJP

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Circulation and ad revenue down at McClatchy — McClatchy's circulation revenues were down in the fourth quarter of 2012, the company said in an earnings report released Thursday morning. Circulation revenue fell 1.9 percent, and advertising revenue was down 6 percent.

Discussion: Sacramento Bee and PR Newswire

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Sky News Arabia Twitter accounts hacked by ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ — One of Sky News Arabia's Twitter accounts — Sky News Arabia's Twitter and Facebook accounts were targeted by hackers last night, the broadcaster has revealed. — A group calling itself the “Syrian Electronic Army” …

Discussion: Softpedia News

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

US media yet again conceals newsworthy government secrets — The collective self-censorship over a US drone base in Saudi Arabia is but the latest act of government-subservient ‘journalism’ — The US media, over the last decade (at least), has repeatedly acted to conceal newsworthy information …

Discussion: New York Times, Daily Download and Erik Wemple

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Robin Roberts Announces Date Of Return To ‘GMA’ — Robin Roberts is returning to “Good Morning America” on Feb. 20th, ABC News announced Thursday morning. — Roberts has not been co-hosting the show since August 30, when she left to begin treatment for the rare blood disorder MDS.

Discussion: TVNewser, Yahoo! Good Morning America, The Wrap, Mediaite, NY Daily News and USA Today

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

At AOL Under Tim Armstrong, the Only Constant Is Change — ‘King of Cocktail Napkin’ Innovates Incessantly — but Where Is He Leading AOL? — When AOL parted ways with its chief marketing officer in December, both the action and the company's explanation for it — a restructuring …

Discussion: Street Fight and JIMROMENESKO.COM