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7:25 AM ET, March 3, 2013

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Yochai Benkler / New Republic:
The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case  —  After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning yesterday offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks.  But his case is far from over—not for Manning, and not for the rest of the country.
Discussion: @antderosa, Guardian, Gawker and The Dish
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Manning to Face More Serious Charges in Leak  —  FORT MEADE, Md. — Military prosecutors announced on Friday that they had decided to try Pfc. Bradley Manning on the most serious charges they have brought against him and seek a sentence that could be life without parole …
Discussion: The Verge
Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times:
Live China TV coverage of executions raises outcry  —  Chinese state TV broadcasts live images of four condemned killers shortly before they are executed.  Human rights lawyers and others express outrage at the unprecedented coverage.  —  Naw Kham, a drug gang leader from Myanmar …
Discussion: The Verge, Mediaite and Gawker
Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
Washington Post Eliminates Ombudsman Position  —  The Washington Post has confirmed its own ombudsman's hunch and announced on Friday that it has cut the 43-year-old position.  —  “We have been privileged to have had the service of many talented ombudsmen (and women) who have addressed readers' concerns …
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John Wihbey / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What's New in Digital Scholarship: Why can Facebook posts be super-memorable, and did tweets direct bombs in Libya?  —  Editor's note: There's a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers?
Discussion: Journalist's Resource
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
“Did we just rip off Marco Arment and The Magazine?”  —  That's actually the title of the latest newsletter from TypeEngine, a startup promising a platform to easily make Newsstand magazines a lot like mine.  —  I don't really know what to think about things like this.
Discussion: @glennf
Stephen Galloway / Hollywood Reporter:
Larry Flynt's Wild Life: Porn, Politics and Penile Implants  —  25 years after his landmark Supreme Court win over Jerry Falwell, the Hustler magnate opens up about plans to out a closeted GOP congressman, his sex life at 70 and the future of his empire.  —  Larry Flynt sits by the window of his sleek …
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.
Michael Berliner / Guardian:
Could online video consumption overtake linear TV viewing by 2020?  —  Will linear TV tank in the way that HMV and Blockbuster have?  To survive, broadcasters need to pre-emptively evolve  —  John Farrell, director of YouTube Latin America, recently made the bold prediction …
Michael Moynihan / The Daily Beast:
Publisher Pulls Jonah Lehrer's ‘How We Decide’ From Stores  —  Disgraced pop-journalist Jonah Lehrer's publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has just announced that his second book, How We Decide, will be pulled from stores, and customers will be refunded.  Michael Moynihan reports on the latest in the Lehrer fiasco.
Wall Street Journal:
Disney, News Corp. Discuss Hulu's Future  —  News Corp . and Walt Disney Co. have begun discussions about resolving uncertainty over their jointly controlled online video site Hulu LLC, with one possible outcome being that one or the other company sells their stake.
Discussion: Engadget and Deadline.com
 
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Jim Romenesko:
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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline
Discussion: ReadWrite, ZDNet, Forbes and WebProNews
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
ZDNet cuts U.S. bloggers as it refocuses on global coverage
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