Mediagazer: Four public officials admit selling information to Sun (Guardian)

9:10 AM ET, March 8, 2013

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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.

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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable: Cablevision: Viacom Wanted $1B-Plus Premium to Carry Only Must-Haves

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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Malathi Nayak / Reuters:
Pandora Media begins search to replace CEO

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Facebook Is Making The World's ‘Best Personalized Newspaper’ — Facebook is making a major News Feed announcement today. — The changes will be the biggest in News Feed's 7-year history. They'll make News Feed easier to sort through and more personalized.

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Ryan Tate / Wired:
With News Feed Overhaul, Facebook Delivers Your ‘Personalized Newspaper’

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Josh Halliday / Guardian: Facebook overhauls news feed to give more space to music, games and ads

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 …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
AOL's Tim Armstrong: If I Had My Druthers, I'd Buy Time Inc.

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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 …

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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.

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.

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John Paul Titlow / ReadWrite:

Sassy Magazine's Jane Pratt On Why Print Is Broken — Jane Pratt wants to tell you her secrets. The publishing maven rose to fame in the 1990s as the founding editor of Sassy, an alternative magazine for teen girls. Today, she runs xoJane, an outspoken site for women that carries …

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.

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

WSJ. Money Debuts Saturday — WSJ. Money, the Wall Street Journal's new “wealth management magazine,” debuts this Saturday, March 9. We first heard about the new magazine about six months after SmartMoney was shut down. The basic difference between the two is that WSJ. Money is for the rich.

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