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1:25 PM ET, February 13, 2013

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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Jonah Lehrer falls into familiar pattern, fails to face his reckoning  —  In recent years, though certainly not recently, many conference attendees have heard Jonah Lehrer speak about how our brains and our personal interactions affect our behaviours in interesting and surprising ways.
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Jonah Lehrer:
My Apology  —  I'd like to begin by thanking the Knight Foundation for the invitation to speak.  —  I've been asked to give a talk about decision-making.  I'm going to focus today on bad decisions, on the causes and repercussions of failure.  The failure I'll be talking about is my own.
Discussion: Poynter, @jonahlehrer and Forbes
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
The accused: At least 55 UK journalists arrested since April 2011  —  At least 55 journalists have now been arrested in the last two years as a result of police investigations stemming from the phone-hacking scandal.  On 13 February, a further six former News of the World journalists …
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Press Gazette:
Six former News of the World journalists arrested in phone-hacking probe are named  —  The six former News of the World journalists arrested today in a new police hacking probe have been named  —  According to Press Association they are understood to be Jules Stenson, Matt Nixson, Rav Singh …
Discussion: @bbcbreaking
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone-hacking inquiry: Sun's Fabulous and northern features editors arrested
Discussion: Softpedia News
Fortune:
Time Warner in talks to part ways with Time Inc.  —  Exclusive: A serious buyer is in talks with the media giant to buy most of its publishing business.  —  FORTUNE — Media giant Time Warner has begun discussions to separate itself from Time Inc., its $3.4 billion (in annual revenue) …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast CEO 'Bullish About NBCUniversal's Future,' NBC Turnaround  —  Comcast is “bullish about NBCUniversal's future,” Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said Wednesday in explaining why the cable giant decided to take full control of the entertainment company earlier than originally planned.
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Jennifer Booton / Fox Business:
Thomson Reuters To Slash 2,500 Jobs, 4% of Workforce  —  Thomson Reuters (TRI) plans to cut 2,500 jobs this year, or 4% of its global workforce, as it continues to axe costs as part of a larger overhaul.  —  The company said on Wednesday that it expects to spend about $100 million on severance costs …
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Thomson Reuters revenue outlook disappoints  —  (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters' (TRI.TO) (TRI.N) revenue forecast for 2013 failed to impress Wall Street and the shares fell 3 percent, overshadowing bullish remarks from Chief Executive James Smith that his turnaround plan was gaining traction.
TechCrunch:
AOL Confirms gdgt Acquisition, Quests For tch Domination  —  AOL (owners of TechCrunch) today is taking one more step to build out its content empire: it has officially confirmed the acquisition of technology reviews site gdgt — first reported by TechCrunch nearly two weeks ago.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Hughes' New Republic has 45,000 subscribers, thinks Twitter beats Facebook for news  —  When multimillionaire and former Facebook executive Chris Hughes bought the struggling New Republic last year, critics were quick to dismiss the purchase as a rich man's folly.
Discussion: AllThingsD
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Financial Times Turns 125  —  The Financial Times marks its 125th anniversary today, and, befitting the challenges facing newspapers today, the celebration will have practical elements.  —  An ad campaign with the somber tagline “Still guiding the way for global business” is breaking in print and online.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Startup Plympton acquires DailyLit to deliver serial fiction in a digital age  —  Plympton, the startup launched last year by former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8 Lee and novelist Yael Goldstein Love, is acquiring DailyLit, a site that delivers books in installments by email and RSS, for an undisclosed sum.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
As Competition With Streaming Services Heats Up, Amazon And CBS Expand Content Licensing Deal  —  Literally days after Amazon announced a unique content deal with CBS for in-season streaming of Stephen King's “Under the Dome” series this summer, the company today added that now has an expanded relationship …
Don Reisinger / CNET:
Julian Assange to run for senate seat in Australia, says report  —  The WikiLeaks founder is running for the senate in Victoria as the lead candidate of his WikiLeaks Party, says a report in The Age.  Assange is currently in political asylum in Ecuador.  —  Julian Assange …
 
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Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web:
The UK's Brit Awards to be Shazam-enabled to provide extra content for music fans
Discussion: broadcastnow.co.uk
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Jimmy Savile: 31 victims of alleged abuse sue BBC and star's estate
Discussion: The Independent, BBC and Yorkshire Post
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
How the media scene has changed in Colorado since the Rocky Mountain News folded
Discussion: The Newspaper Guild
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Why I'm unfriending you on Facebook
Cody Lee / iDownloadBlog.com:
A&E Networks brings its top TV shows to the iPhone for free
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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Fairfax cancels Guardian copy-usage agreement
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The NYT's newspaper industry rarity: growth
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Tina Brown's all-digital Newsweek loses its iPad design director
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
AP Hires Mashable Exec to Build Digital Ad Strategy
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Trial Begins in Dish Network's $150 Million Lawsuit Against ESPN
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

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Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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