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8:00 PM ET, February 21, 2013

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