Mediagazer: Barnes & Noble Weighs Its E-Reader Investment (Leslie Kaufman/New York Times)

12:15 PM ET, February 25, 2013

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Barnes & Noble Weighs Its E-Reader Investment — Even for a company with a lot of bad news lately, the bulletin from Barnes & Noble this month had an ominous feel. — Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest book chain, warned that when it reports fiscal 2013 third-quarter results on Thursday …

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Wall Street Journal:

Barnes's Chairman Mulls Store Buyout — Barnes & Noble Inc.'s chairman and biggest shareholder, Leonard Riggio, has expressed interest in buying out the retailer's consumer-bookstore chain, raising the prospect that the company could be split in two. — Mr. Riggio, 71 years old …

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David Boardman / The Seattle Times:

Digital subscriptions needed to support quality journalism — In mid-March, The Seattle Times will launch a new digital-subscription plan for users of Seattletimes.com. Print subscribers will continue to have unrestricted access. — It is a truism of American life that you get what you pay for.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Columbia Journalism Review and GeekWire

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Seattle Times will install paywall next month

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Jeff Zeleny Exits New York Times for ABC News — New York Times political reporter Jeff Zeleny is leaving the newspaper for ABC News. — ABC News president Ben Sherwood announced the hire Monday morning in a note to staff. He said that last week, Times' executive editor Jill Abramson praised Zeleny as …

Discussion: TVNewser, FishbowlDC, Politico, @dylanbyers and Broadcasting & Cable

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

We Are All Huffington Post Now — Two years ago, the Huffington Post published a story called “What Time Does the Super Bowl Start?” which generated lots of clicks from regular Web-surfers, and eye-rolling from people like me. — The post was both effective — it showed up high on Google searches …

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Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:

Warren Buffett buys Tulsa World — Warren Buffett's newspaper group said Monday it would buy the Tulsa (Okla.) World daily newspaper. BH Media Group, a division of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is to purchase the newspaper for an undisclosed amount from the Lorton family of Tulsa, which has owned the World for four generations.

Discussion: Politico, Winston-Salem Journal and 6

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Robert Gibbs Told Not To Acknowledge Drone Program Exists As White House Press Secretary — Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy — Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday that he was told not to “acknowledge” or “discuss” …

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Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:
White House orders agencies to open access to research

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Aereo expands TV on-the-go service to 3 more states, launches first big ad campaign — Aereo, a service that lets users watch live TV on their iPhones, tablets and computers, has expanded from New York City to 29 counties across New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Discussion: VentureBeat, AdAge, Home Media Magazine and TechCrunch

Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:

Real-time news is neither — The closer you get to the event itself, the more it costs to find out what's going on. A week or a month or a year after the fact, the truth (or as close as we can get) is nearly free. Finding out that same truth mere seconds after it happens is costly indeed.

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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

Michael Goldfarb Gleeful Provocateur at Intersection of Many Worlds — At 11:42 a.m. on Feb. 14, a conservative online magazine called The Washington Free Beacon posted a dispatch about a speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2007 in which it said he called the State Department “an adjunct to the Israeli foreign minister's office.”

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @nycsouthpaw, @jim_newell and Smartertimes.com

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Why traditional publishers won't buy Globe — When the New York Times Co. bought the Boston Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993, many of the nation's newspaper publishing companies happily would have paid the same price for the same opportunity. — With the Globe now on track to be sold for a tenth …

Discussion: Poynter and Guardian

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: Split in two: How The Boston Globe, up for sale, is navigating its free/paid strategy

John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC condemns China's ‘deliberate’ jamming of World Service broadcasts — Statement by global news head Peter Horrocks cites ‘deliberate and co-ordinated’ blocking of shortwave frequencies in region — The BBC has “strongly condemned” the “deliberate and co-ordinated” jamming of the BBC World Service by authorities in China.

Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts, Associated Press and BBC

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Pearson says FT is not for sale as digital subscriptions overtake print — Media and education group to spend £150m on restructuring, including preparing Penguin for merger with Random House — Financial Times owner Pearson has declared the paper is not for sale …

Discussion: Reuters, paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, @jackshafer, Talking Biz News and Media Week

Samantha Murphy / Mashable:

Oscar Win Is a First for Kickstarter-Funded Film — For the first time ever, a Kickstarter-funded film has won an Oscar. How's that for the power of the Internet and crowdfunding? — Inocente — the story of a 15-year old girl from California who refuses to give up her dream of being an artist …