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12:15 PM ET, March 8, 2013

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Imagining a Swap Meet for E-Books and Music  —  The prospect of online stores that sell used e-books and digital music has heartened consumer advocates, but publishers and artists are worried.
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Publishing Starts With $2.6 Billion Cash  —  News Corp. (NWSA)'s publishing spinoff, set to become a separate publicly held business in June, will start out with $2.6 billion in cash after receiving a $1.82 billion infusion from the parent company.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Juan Williams column cribs from think-tank report  —  EXCLUSIVE: Fox News pundit blames researcher for word-for-word similarities.  “Unacceptable,” says Hill editor  —  Fox News pundit Juan Williams lifted — sometimes word for word — from a Center for American Progress report …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
AOL's CEO to haters: Our content strategy was right after all (and Patch is fine too)  —  Media companies live a fraught existence but, even by that standard, AOL walked closer to the valley of death than most.  A year ago, most observers (including us) believed AOL was in permanent decline …
Guardian:
Four public officials admit selling information to Sun  —  Duo are first to plead guilty following arrest as part of investigation into alleged illegal payments to public officials  —  A former police officer and ex-prison officer have admitted selling information to the Sun about high-profile individuals …
Discussion: PressGazette and Reuters
Neo-Guido / Guy Fawkes' blog:
Audio Tape Reveals Mark Thompson DID Know About Savile  —  Ninety seconds of audio released by The Times media correspondent Ben Webster has undone former BBC Director General Mark Thompson's evidence to both Parliament and the Pollard Review over what he knew about Savile.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp.'s ‘The Times’ Honored as U.K. Newspaper of the Year  —  The “Sunday Times” and “The Sun” also win awards, but the latter continues to deal with fallout from probes launched amid the phone-hacking scandal.  —  LONDON - The Times, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. …
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Former Wired Digital Editor Heads to Obvious Corp.  —  Evan Hansen, former editor in chief of Wired.com, has joined Obvious Corp. as a senior editor, he announced on Thursday.  —  Obvious Corp. is the brainchild of Ev Williams and Biz Stone, the two Twitter co-founders who left their daily roles …
Discussion: paidContent and The Next Web
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Billions!  Cablevision Takes Its Second Swing at Viacom in Bundling-Breaking Fight.  —  Here's the next step in the Cablevision/Viacom cable bundling fee fight: After back and forth between the two companies about which stuff they want to keep private, they have released a public version of Cablevision's legal complaint.
Discussion: Variety and Forbes
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:   Cablevision: Viacom Wanted $1B-Plus Premium to Carry Only Must-Haves
Businessweek:
CNN's Soledad O'Brien on Her Entrepreneurial TV Future  —  I never really hesitated about going to Starting Point [which premiered on Jan. 2, 2012].  I thought there was an opportunity to get beyond the platitudes of “Yes, Medicare!  No, Medicare!” and actually look at the Congressional Budget Office report.
Andrew Stewart / Variety:
Coming Soon to Theaters: Movies via Satellite … The industry's first digital theatrical delivery service is mere months away after five studios and the nation's three largest exhibitors, Regal, AMC and Cinemark, reached an agreement to partner on a model that delivers films and other content via satellite.
Sara Morrison / Columbia Journalism Review:
Nate Thayer accused of plagiarism  —  Nate Thayer's post on Monday about how much TheAtlantic.com was willing (or, more accurately, not willing) to pay for a re-written version of his NK News article about basketball in North Korean diplomacy created quite the firestorm.
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Pandora Shares Jump 18% After Better-Than-Expected Earnings, Mobile Revenue Up 111% To $80.3M  —  Veteran streaming radio platform Pandora released its fourth quarter earnings today, in which it saw its fiscal 2013 revenue of $427.1 million, representing a 56 percent year-over-year increase …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Aereo vs. FilmOn: A New Day, Another Lawsuit  —  After suing Alki David for using “BarryDriller” and “AereoKiller,” Aereo is now suing him for using “Aero.”  —  Alki David  —  Time will tell if the millions of dollars that Barry Diller has sunk into Aereo will pay off …
Ryan Tate / Wired:
With News Feed Overhaul, Facebook Delivers Your ‘Personalized Newspaper’  —  Facebook redesigned its News Feed with bolder images and special sections for friends, photos, and music, saying the activity stream will become more like a “personalized newspaper” that fits better with people's mobile lifestyles.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:   Facebook overhauls news feed to give more space to music, games and ads
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Facebook Is Making The World's ‘Best Personalized Newspaper’
 
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