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8:40 AM ET, March 1, 2013

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Spiegel Online:
Lex Google: Germany Waters Down Search Engine Legislation  —  A new law regulating the indexing of media articles by search engines like Google and Bing is likely to pass on Friday.  The watered-down legislation won't force the kind of payments to publishers the Internet giant had feared.
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Associated Press:
German Parliament OKs Watered-Down Copyright Law  —  BERLIN (AP) — A bill broadening copyright protections for material used on the Internet has been approved by Germany's lower house of Parliament - but without provisions that worried Google and other search engines.
Discussion: GigaOM, ITworld.com, ZDNet and Bloomberg
Mathias Schindler / Search Engine Land:
New German Law Will Allow Free “Snippets” By Search Engines, But Uncertainty Remains  —  The good news for search engines like Google is a proposed German copyright law won't require them to pay to show short summaries of news content.  However, uncertainty remains about how much might be “too much” and require a license.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and VentureVillage
Erik Wemple:
Bradley Manning raises a question: How do you tip off the New York Times?  —  Last year, a big fight in journo-critic world addressed whether the New York Times should have a correspondent front and center for the trial of Bradley Manning, the famous WikiLeaker.
Discussion: paidContent
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Former New York Times Public Editor Doesn't Recall Bradley Manning's Call  —  When Pfc. Bradley Manning pled guilty Thursday to ten of 22 charges Thursday in connection with leaking a cache of classified documents to WikiLeaks, he also revealed having first approached three news outlets: the Washington Post, New York Times and Politico.
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Bradley Manning Tried Going To NY Times, Washington Post, Politico Before Turning To WikiLeaks
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
A BusinessWeek cover crosses a line  —  Minorities as greedy grotesqueries fueling a new housing bubble  —  Bloomberg BusinessWeek is a lot edgier than its predecessor, at least where design is concerned.  Sometimes it's too edgy, like when it takes two minutes to read some headline intentionally designed to be barely legible.
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Bloomberg Businessweek editor wishes he hadn't published controversial housing cover
Kylie Davis / INMA:
Content marketing is our next big revenue threat — unless we embrace it now  —  Rather than view content marketing as a threat, news media companies need to see an exciting opportunity worth exploring right now.  Otherwise, we'll be edged out by the new competition — our own advertising clients.
Charlotte Higgins / Guardian:
BBC's new director general warns against reckless risk-taking  —  Tony Hall, who takes over in April, also emphasises need to ‘give people confidence to be bold and run with what they want to do’  —  • Read the full interview in Saturday's Guardian  —  A reckless approach …
Wall Street Journal:
Imagining Pay-TV if Bundles Unravel  —  What happens when the “bundle” begins to unravel?  —  The question is taking on intense importance for the cable-TV business, which for decades has forced customers to subscribe to groups, or bundles, of channels—whether they wanted them or not.
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Online Journalism Review relaunched by USC Annenberg  —  The Online Journalism Review fell off my radar, and I suspect that of other news types, when USC Annenberg downsized the reach a bit back in 2008.  I'm not sure what OJR has been doing lately.  But now USC Annenberg has given it a new look and a new view of its role.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:
Dish Loses 3 of 4 Claims Against ESPN in Contract Dispute  —  Dish Network Corp. (DISH) lost three of four claims it brought against Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN over terms of a sports programming contract, as a jury awarded Dish only $4.85 million of the $153 million it sought.
Jack Shafer:
Goodbye Globe, hello global New York Times  —  The New York Times Co. has been shedding its non-core assets, smoothing its cost structure, strengthening its balance sheet and rebalancing its portfolio with such haste over the past two years that only a cruel and unusual press critic would urge it to quadruple those efforts.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
As Nook revenues plunge, B&N says it's “calibrating” strategy but “committed” to devices  —  Barnes & Noble had warned investors that its third-quarter Nook earnings would be disappointing.  The earnings report was released before the market opened Thursday morning, and indeed, Nook revenues …
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John Kell / Wall Street Journal:   Riggio's Plan Questioned by Shareholder on Barnes & Noble Call
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
AOL picks Susan Lyne to head up its brands, including TechCrunch  —  (Reuters) - AOL Inc appointed board director Susan Lyne on Thursday to head up its portfolio of brands, including TechCrunch and Mapquest.  —  Lyne, who is vice chairman of the online clothing flash sale site Gilt.com …
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:   AOL's Chief Operating Officer to Exit
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Print bloodbath: Human Events kills newspaper, dumps staff
National Union of Journalists:
Greedy Gannett: newspaper group pays shareholders $1.3 billion while UK staff endure pay freeze
Discussion: The Drum
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Partnership to create Bloomberg TV Africa
Jim Romenesko:
Who will buy the Los Angeles Times?
Discussion: LA Weekly
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
For young editor Scott Dadich, another shot at rewiring Condé Nast
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Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Bradley Manning pleads guilty to being Wikileaks source, denies ‘aiding the enemy’
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Another Big-Media YouTube Bet: Bertelsmann Invests in StyleHaul's Fashion Videos
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Google, Facebook And Twitter Ordered To Delete Photos By UK Law Enforcement
Discussion: Search Engine Land and Sky News
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Pop Culture Web Publisher BuzzMedia Lays Off 20 Percent of Staff, Restructures
Politico:
Exclusive: The Woodward, Sperling emails revealed