Mediagazer: Barnes & Noble warns investors to expect more bad Nook news (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

10:35 AM ET, February 14, 2013

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Incoming BBC Boss Unveils First Personnel Decisions — UPDATED: Tony Hall expands Tim Davie's role as head of BBC Worldwide and names BBC News director Helen Boaden as head of BBC Radio. — Incoming BBC boss Tony Hall has made first major personnel decisions.

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Press Association / Huffington Post UK:

Helen Boaden, BBC Executive During Jimmy Savile Scandal, Given Job As Head Of Radio Networks — Helen Boaden, the executive in charge of BBC News when the Jimmy Savile controversy erupted, is to move to a new role heading the corporation's radio networks. And former culture secretary James Purnell …

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Guardian:

Helen Boaden's memo to BBC staff — Outgoing director of news thanks her team before she moves over to take over top radio role — Today Tony Hall has announced the shape of his new top team and as you will know, I am moving to become director of radio at Easter. I confess that it is a bitter sweet moment for me.

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Tom Brooks-Pollock / Manchester Evening News:
Ex-Stalybridge and Hyde MP James Purnell lands top BBC role

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Knight Foundation:

Knight Foundation regrets paying Lehrer speaking fee — On Tuesday, the Knight Foundation paid Jonah Lehrer to speak at a community foundation conference. In retrospect, as a foundation that has long stood for quality journalism, paying a speaker's fee was inappropriate.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
It Sure Doesn't Sound Like Jonah Lehrer Is Donating That $20K Speaking Fee To Charity

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Fortune:

Time Warner in talks to part ways with Time Inc. — FORTUNE — Media giant Time Warner has begun discussions to separate itself from Time Inc., its $3.4 billion (in annual revenue) publishing division, according to three people familiar with the matter. A serious buyer is in talks with the company, one of the sources says.

Wall Street Journal:
Time, Meredith Explore Magazine-Spinoff Deal

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Simone Foxman / Quartz:
Why does Time Warner want to get rid of its most profitable magazine?

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Felix Salmon:

Blogonomics, Maria Popova edition — Back in May, Kickstarter looked as though it was moving upmarket. Following Bob Lefsetz's lead, I said that “while Kickstarter was originally embraced by the undiscovered and impecunious, its greatest potential, in the music industry …

Discussion: Betabeat, @profjeffjarvis, @niubi, @maoxian and @sdkstl

Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat:
Maybe Don't Talk S**t About Ads If You Make Money On Affiliate Links [Updated]

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Barnes & Noble warns investors to expect more bad Nook news — It's only been a couple of months since Barnes & Noble downgraded guidance for its Nook business. Now the company is doing so again. — In a press release sent out after the market closed Wednesday, Barnes & Noble said it …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Vimeo Gets Its Own GIF App by Buying Echograph — Digital media question of the moment: What's your GIF strategy? — I don't know why the digital hive mind has fixated on GIFs and GIF-like animations in the last year, and I don't know how much longer they'll be interested in them. But for now, they are.

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Martin Peretz / Wall Street Journal:

The New New Republic — I don't recognize the magazine I used to own. We were liberal but not narrowly partisan. — Like many readers of the New Republic, I didn't at first recognize the most recent issue of the magazine. The stark white cover was unlike anything the New Republic ran during my 35 years as the owner.

Discussion: Politico, Slate, @jayrosen_nyu, @davewiner, @adamgoldmanap, @el_bhask, @nbj914, @jackshafer and @mlcalderone

Tom Pakinkis / Music Week:

Rightsholders should be paid for online radio plays, says Aussie court — Rightsholders should be paid additional fees for plays via online simulcasts - where a radio station is broadcast via the internet as well as on the airwaves, Australia's Federal Court has ruled.

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Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Broadcasters blame zombie hack on easy passwords — (Reuters) - Poor password security allowed hackers to broadcast a bogus warning on TV networks that the United States was under attack by zombies, broadcasters said, and one expert in the technology said the emergency channel they broke into remained vulnerable.

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Jim Romenesko:

Why newspaper sports journalists don't like Deadspin — From TIM MULLIN: It's worth considering that the whole Toledo Blade reaction to the Deadspin piece may be about something else. — Deadspin really breaks the unspoken, but long-standing tradition that sports reporters only cover what goes on between the lines.

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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

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone-hacking inquiry: Sun's Fabulous and northern features editors arrested — • Rachel Richardson and Jane Atkinson held for questioning — • Other arrestees understood to be Jules Stenson, Matt Nixson, Rav Singh and Polly Graham — The two Sun journalists arrested on Wednesday …

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