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10:05 AM ET, February 27, 2013

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CJ Lotz / BuzzFeed:
Former Onion Staffers Denounce CEO's Apology For Quvenzhané Wallis Tweet  —  Editorial freedom and the “c” word.  —  Image by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/MCT  —  Former Onion staffers Monday reacted with dismay to the satirical newspaper's apology for calling a 9-year-old a …
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Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Built for Newsprint, The Onion Finds New Life In Social, Video
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Bug In Kindle Update For iOS Deletes Users' Entire Library, Amazon Warns Users Not To Update  —  Amazon yesterday updated its Kindle for iOS app, which works across iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, to version 3.6.1.  The update was meant to fix a few bugs as well as the registration process.
Discussion: The Next Web
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. listening to offers for its 8 newspapers  —  JPMorgan Chase and Evercore Partners hired to manage potential offers … Tribune Co. has hired two investment banks to manage offers to buy its newspapers, executives confirmed Tuesday, saying no decisions have been made about whether to sell any properties.
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Pig Rescues Goat, and the Video Is Really Cute, but Totally Faked  —  It seemed too adorable to be fake, but it was too good to be true.  —  On Sept. 19 a 30-second video appeared on YouTube, depicting a baby goat that had become stuck in the pond of a petting zoo and that was heroically rescued …
Discussion: Media Decoder, ArtsBeat, ABCNEWS and The FJP
Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Rick Klein Promoted To ABC News Political Director  —  Rick Klein, ABC News' senior Washington editor, will be taking on a larger role as the network's political director.  ABC News chief Ben Sherwood made the announcement in a memo to staff on Wednesday.  Klein served as senior Washington editor …
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Nickelodeon Targets ‘Post-Millennials’ in Upfront  —  Children's Net Moves Beyond TV, Rolls Out App Along With New Shows  —  Nickelodeon's motto for its upfront presentation appears to be “in with the new.”  —  As the children's cable network looks to revive sagging ratings …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Text-to-speech startup iSpeech launches publisher platform; Evernote, Pearson first clients  —  iSpeech, a Newark, N.J.-based startup that specializes in lifelike text-to-speech apps and previously rolled out voice technology for the connected home, is launching a platform for publishers, the company plans to announce Tuesday.
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
FCC delays vote on media ownership rules  —  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski said on Tuesday that he will postpone a vote to revise media ownership regulations so that a nonprofit group can study the potential impact on women and racial minorities.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Authors face change as Amazon tightens affiliate policy on free Kindle books  —  Amazon is changing a policy on affiliate links to free Kindle books, and the changes are likely to have a big effect on the way some self-published authors achieve success online.
Jillian Stonecipher / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists' First Amendment rights  —  Editor's note: We've talked before about the rise of (and backlash against) mugshot sites — those skeezy sites that get mugshots through public records, post them online for Google to find …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
David Carr / New York Times:
Giving Viewers What They Want  —  In the television business, there is no such thing as a sure thing.  You can have a gold-plated director, a bankable star and a popular concept and still, it's just a roll of the dice.  —  Or is it?  —  In any business, the ability to see into the future …
Lenka Ponikelska / Bloomberg:
CME 4Q Net Loss Widens on Weak TV Ad Spending, Impairment  —  Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CETV), the eastern European broadcaster co-owned by Time Warner Inc. (TWX), said its fourth-quarter net loss widened as TV ad markets continued to weaken and the company's impairment charge increased almost eightfold.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Maybe You'll Get the Pay TV You Want, After All: Cablevision Sues Viacom to Break Up the Bundle  —  Pay TV has a simple model: If you want to watch one channel, you have to pay for dozens — or hundreds — of others, whether you watch them or not.  That model drives lots of consumers nuts, but it has looked very, very hard to dislodge.
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:   Time Warner Cable and DirecTV support Cablevison in Viacom fight
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Variety will kill its daily print edition and online paywall, keep weekly magazine  —  Three editors-in-chief will head coverage of movies, television, and digital content in new web-first approach  —  The iconic entertainment publication Variety will discontinue its daily printed edition on March 18th.
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:   Variety Makes a Necessary Change - Here Are the Risks
 
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC faces fresh strike as Bectu holds ballot
Discussion: BECTU, Telegraph and BBC
Alex Knapp / Forbes:
Study Finds That Streaming And Spyware Are Killing Music Piracy
Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times ups investment in conferences
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