Mediagazer: Rupert Murdoch is on Tumblr, and the photos are kind of amazing (Zachary M. Seward/Quartz)

1:00 AM ET, March 2, 2013

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Michael Moynihan / The Daily Beast:

Publisher Pulls Jonah Lehrer's ‘How We Decide’ From Stores - See more at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/ 2013/03/01/publisher-pulls-jonah-lehrer - s-how-we-decide-from-stores.html#sthash .ZZCi92Zn.dpuf — Disgraced pop-journalist Jonah Lehrer's publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt …

Discussion: New York Times, Globe and Mail, Business Insider and New York Magazine

Katharine Weymouth / Washington Post:

A reader representative for The Post — The world has changed, and we at The Post must change with it. We have been privileged to have had the service of many talented ombudsmen (and women) who have addressed readers' concerns, answered their questions and held The Post to the highest standards of journalism.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Wrap and Tampabay.com

Jim Romenesko:

‘I love newspapers,’ Warren Buffett tells Berkshire Hathaway shareholders — Warren Buffett's latest report to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders includes these observations about newspapers: … Here's the part of Buffett's report that's devoted to newspapers: — We Buy Some Newspapers . . . Newspapers?

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Rupert Murdoch is on Tumblr, and the photos are kind of amazing — Rupert Murdoch shearing a sheep. Natalie Ravitz — News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, having conquered Twitter, has moved on to Tumblr. — Murdoch's chief of staff, Natalie Ravitz, has been maintaining …

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline — Yahoo today issued its annual 10-K report to the Securities And Exchange Commission. These kinds of forms have a lot of boilerplate language that is reused again and again — often …

Discussion: Forbes and ZDNet

Horace Dediu / asymco:

Measuring the iBook market — In June of 2011 Apple announced that 130 million ebooks were sold through iTunes. In October of 2012 it announced that 400 million sold. — That means 270 million ebooks were sold in 16 months. Or about 17 million units per month, on average.

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.

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, paidContent, Financial Times, @anked, Kirk LaPointe's …, Associated Press and German Pulse

Mathias Schindler / Search Engine Land:
New German Law Will Allow Free “Snippets” By Search Engines, But Uncertainty Remains

Discussion: Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Fast Company, VentureVillage, eMedia Vitals and paidContent

Associated Press:
German Parliament OKs Watered-Down Copyright Law

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Curtis Brainard / Columbia Journalism Review:

NYT cancels Green blog — No explanation from editors following surprise announcement — At 5pm on Friday afternoon, The New York Times posted the following announcement: … This is terrible news, to say the least. When the Times announced in January that it was dismantling …

Discussion: Green

Variety:

Variety.com Redesign Launches … The evolution of Variety continues with today's live launch of the redesigned Variety.com. And, to the relief of readers and staffers, the paywall has come down. — The new website addresses years of requests from readers, with a site that's easy to navigate …

Discussion: FishbowlLA

Victoria Bryan / Reuters:

German book retailers team up against Amazon with new eReader — (Reuters) - German book retailers have teamed up with Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) to produce their own eReader to challenge the dominance of Amazon.com (AMZN.O) in the growing market for digital books.

Discussion: GigaOM, Good E-Reader and Telecompaper

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Jane Pratt Launches Beauty Site xoVain — This morning, at the Waterworks showroom in New York's Flatiron district, Jane Pratt presided over the launch party for her new beauty site, xoVain, wearing a bathrobe. It's not an outfit you'd expect to find Pratt wearing in public …

Discussion: MinOnline

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

Covert Malaysian Campaign Touched A Wide Range Of American Media — Outlets from Huffington Post to National Review carried pieces financed by the Malaysian government. An international campaign against Anwar Ibrahim. — Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak (R) talks …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Gawker, CNN, New York Magazine and @jstrevino