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8:00 PM ET, February 21, 2013

Top News:

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Soledad O'Brien to Take on New Role at CNN — Soledad O'Brien will leave CNN's morning show in the spring, but she won't be leaving the cable news channel altogether. — Ms. O'Brien, who is well-known for CNN documentaries like “Black in America,” said Thursday that she will form …

Discussion: AdAge, Politico, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, New York Post and The Atlantic Wire

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of The Boston Globe's sale — Make more room for the great metro sell-off of 2013. — With the unsurprising news that The New York Times Company is trying, once again, to part with The Boston Globe, we see the start of a wave of likely change in metro newspaper ownership across the United States.

Discussion: Smartertimes.com, Gannett Blog, bizjournals, Columbia Journalism Review, AdPulp, @underoak, The Public Editor's Journal, Media Nation, BostInno and Bloomberg

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Who will buy The Boston Globe? — The New York Times Co. announced Wednesday afternoon that it would seek a buyer for its New England Media Group, which includes The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. — Globe and T&G employees are only some of the people who'd like to know who might buy the properties.

Discussion: The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Slate

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Steven Brill Calls New Republic Owner Chris Hughes A ‘Liar’ After Falling Out Over Cover Story — NEW YORK — On Thursday, Time magazine published Steven Brill's deeply reported, 24,000-word cover story on America's health care system, the longest article by one writer the magazine has ever published.

Discussion: Daily Download, The New York Observer and New York Magazine

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

TVs Connected to the Internet to Be Counted by Nielsen — Americans who have spurned cable, but who have a television set hooked up to the Internet, will now be counted as a “television household” by The Nielsen Company, potentially adding to the sample of homes that are rated by the company.

Discussion: paidContent, Deadline.com, AdAge, Los Angeles Times, Radio & Television … and www.wnyc.org

Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen Agrees to Expand Definition of TV Viewing

Discussion: Wired, GeekWire, multichannel.com/rss, Marketing Pilgrim, TVbytheNumbers, ReadWrite, Mashable!, the Econsultancy blog, Splitsider, The Huffington Post, Kirk LaPointe's …, Gizmodo, The Verge, App Advice and Media Law Prof Blog

Erik Wemple:

Poynter.org big shot Julie Moos to McClatchy — Julie Moos, the director of Poynter Online, is bolting for a position with McClatchy's Washington bureau, where her title will be senior digital editor, according to a Facebook posting: … Poynter.org is a fast-churning journalism-trade site …

Discussion: @mallarytenore, @fromcarl and @abeaujon

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:

Guess Which Buzzfeed Piece Is An Ad — Since I'm going to be discussing forms of new media revenue with Friend of the Dish, Ben Smith, later today, I though it might be worth noting some aspects of Buzzfeed's innovative model, i.e. “sponsored content” or “native advertizing”.

Discussion: @buzzfeedben, @dkthomp, @antderosa, @joshpetri, @mathewi, @mathewi and @dkthomp

Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:

CNBC to Purchase ‘Nightly Business Report’ — “Nightly Business Report,” the pioneer public television series that has struggled financially in recent years, is getting a new deep-pocketed commercial owner, the 24-hour business cable channel CNBC, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and The Tell

Ken Layne / The Awl:

Life After Patch.com: A Newspaper Editor Returns To Newsprint — Patch.com was launched in 2007 when Tim Armstrong, the man who turned Google into an advertising company, noticed his very wealthy Connecticut bedroom community lacked a local paper with an events calendar.

Discussion: @yesevamoore, @mathewi and Business Insider

Staci D. Kramer / Trust But Verify:

Media Companies Abruptly Shut Down quadrantOne — And another grand plan by major publishers bites the dust. Tribune, Gannett, the New York Times Co. and Hearst have shut down quadrantOne effective immediately. The agency was an attempt to scale local for national display advertising …

Discussion: AdExchanger

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Big Music Says Google Isn't Cracking Down on Pirate Sites, After All — Six months ago, in the wake of the SOPA/PIPA debate, Google offered a peace offering to the Big Media companies: It said it would try to make pirate sites harder to find in its search results.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Radio & Television …, Music Ally, Variety, Hillicon Valley, The Verge and RIAA

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

DMS13: Economist considers audio-only subscription — The Economist's Nick Blunden also said the title has found readers are prepared to pay more for a print and digital bundle than for a print-only subscription or digital-only access — Copyright: Image by TalAtlas on Flickr. Creative commons licence.

Discussion: TheMediaBriefing, @rajunarisetti, NetNewsCheck Latest, @jeffjarvis and @rajunarisetti

Felix Salmon:

Content economics, part 1: advertising — Back in December, Peter Kafka summed up the most important question with regards to the future of online advertising. Do advertising dollars ultimately end up where people spend their time, he asked, echoing Kleiner Perkins' Mary Meeker says, or …

Discussion: paidContent

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

BBC Trust chairman says executives misled him over Jimmy Savile scandal — Long-awaited report into handling of Newsnight debacle to be released on Friday — Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, has voiced his sense of betrayal at the BBC executives who led him to put his faith …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter