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3:50 AM ET, February 11, 2013

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber: ‘News now is not the newspaper’  —  As the FT celebrates its 125th birthday, Barber outlines his plans for a digital revolution  —  Pink is a colour associated with good health and in the past the salmon shades of the Financial Times's pages seemed …
Discussion: New York Times
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Journalists' E-Mail Accounts Targeted in Myanmar  —  BANGKOK — Several journalists who cover Myanmar said Sunday that they had received warnings from Google that their e-mail accounts might have been hacked by “state-sponsored attackers.”  —  The warnings began appearing last week …
Discussion: Eleven Myanmar
Felix Salmon:
Why the quants won't take over Hollywood  —  Andrew Leonard has a very odd column about Netflix and House of Cards, under the headline “How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets”.  Netflix, you see, has lots of data, and it used that data in the commissioning process for the series:
Discussion: Esquire, @pkafka and @felixsalmon
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Keeping Secrets  —  IF you only own a hammer, observed the psychologist Abraham Maslow, you tend to see every problem as a nail.  —  Similarly, when the government's only chance of keeping an inconvenient truth out of the news media is to warn of a national security threat, it's amazing how these threats pop up.
Bill Carter / New York Times:
In Venture With NBC, Esquire Expands Into Television  —  Esquire, the magazine that has relied on the printed page for the last 80 years, is about to make a move into television.  —  On Monday, NBCUniversal will announce that it has concluded a deal with Hearst Magazines to rebrand …
Discussion: New York Magazine
John Cusack / The Huffington Post:
Freedom of the Press Foundation - Updates From Our Front  —  When we launched Freedom of the Press Foundation — a new organization dedicated to supporting the 1st Amendment and journalism that focuses on transparency and accountability in government — a little over six weeks ago, we knew the need was there.
Discussion: @freedomofpress and Boing Boing
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of pressing innovation  —  Technology changes everything, right?  —  We've seen that truism restated as iPads reignite longer-form reading, as smartphones and tablets increase minutes of news usage, and as Kindles increase the number of books bought by as much as 4x.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Publication of hacked George W. Bush e-mails raises journalism ethics questions  —  By the old rules of journalism, George W. Bush's private e-mails to his family might never have been published or broadcast, certainly not without his permission.  Most news organizations would have thought twice …
Discussion: @postbaron and Reuters
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Hikes Its Promoted Trend Prices Again, to $200,000 a Day  —  Twitter's ad business is still a work in progress, but here's one positive sign: Prices for the company's “promoted trends” have been steadily rising, and are now at the $200,000 a day mark in the U.S..
Discussion: CNET and The Next Web
Sara Hamdan / New York Times:
Social Media Firms Move to Capitalize on Popularity in Middle East  —  DUBAI — For its most recent advertising push, the Saudi Arabian telecommunications giant Mobily did not turn to the street or television to engage with customers.  Mobily paid to promote itself on Twitter.
Associated Press:
Egypt court orders YouTube blocked for a month in case related to anti-Islam film  —  CAIRO — A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Trinity Mirror's ‘newsroom 3.0 model’ to focus on digital  —  More details on Trinity Mirror's proposed new workflow, which it plans to roll out across its regional newsrooms, as part of ‘significant changes’ announced last week  —  Copyright: By jarapet on Flickr.  Some rights reserved.
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