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8:55 AM ET, March 12, 2013

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Telegraph group cuts 80 print jobs as daily and Sunday titles merge  —  The Telegraph group is to shed 80 of its 550 editorial staff as part of what the chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, calls a root and branch restructure of the business.  It will mean the complete merger of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph as a seven-day operation.
Discussion: The Wall Blog
Bryan Goldberg / PandoDaily:
Gawker admits defeat, tries to replicate Bleacher Report and Huffington Post  —  I don't cover news for PandoDaily, but I figured that I would give it a shot today.  —  Gawker has thrown in the towel on their old model.  Today, their popular Deadspin blog has announced that they are creating a …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
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Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:   Welcome To The New Deadspin  —  Hi.  The place looks different, doesn't it?
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
With Spotify On The Web Horizon, Rdio Takes Its Browser-Based Music Service To 7 New Markets; Now Reaching 24  —  The land grab for online music streaming services continues.  On the heels of reports that Spotify is planning to take its web-based music player global to complement its desktop and mobile apps …
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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Spotify Said Expanding Pandora-Like Web Radio Worldwide
Discussion: The Verge
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business?  —  After ten years of struggle, nobody has figured out how to make music pay  —  “The subscription model has failed so far,” Steve Jobs said in April 2007.  “People want to own their music.”  At that time, Apple had solved the problem …
Discussion: @pkafka and Gizmodo
Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
Cinedigm creating new paradigm for digital movie distribution  —  Cinedigm plans to transform itself into a leading digital distributor of movies, documentaries and TV shows — not just to theaters but a variety of platforms.  —  Chris McGurk, chief executive of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp …
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice  —  A full audio recording of the whistleblower is released today despite a court prohibition on such recordings  —  The court-martial proceeding of Bradley Manning has, rather ironically, been shrouded in extreme secrecy …
Sam Thielman / Adweek:
The New CNN Gets Into the Big Data Game  —  CNN is once again trying its hand at the analytics game in the upfront, only this time it has the backing of a larger partnership.  The cable news network is joining forces with Nielsen and Arbitron to create CNN All-Screen, which will measure …
Discussion: TVNewser
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Meet the ‘Corporate Enemies of the Internet’ for 2013  —  Paris-based Reporters Without Borders names five companies as “digital mercenaries” that have decided to sell their surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes.  —  Vietnam has been named one of the enemies of the Internet for its extensive government surveillance.
Tessa Stuart / BuzzFeed:
What's Next For Ridley Scott?  YouTube.  —  The director of Alien and Prometheus will produce 12 short sci-fi films for YouTube network Machinima.  —  Ridley Scott directs Noomi Rapace on the set of “Prometheus.”  —  Image by Kerry Brown/MCT  —  Ridley Scott and his production company …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M  —  LinkedIn will buy the maker of the newsreader app Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.  —  The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million.
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Baauer's ‘Harlem Shake’ Hits No. 1 With Unlicensed Samples  —  Hector Delgado gave up being a reggaetón artist five years ago to become an evangelical preacher in Puerto Rico.  So it was something of a surprise when his former manager, Javier Gómez, called him three weeks ago …
 
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Jennifer Howard / Chronicle of Higher Education:
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A proposed Texas law would promote correcting incorrect news, online and off
Mayer Nissim / Digital Spy:
Ceri Thomas named BBC News head of programmes
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Mail Online expands, has bigger audience in U.S. than in U.K.
Discussion: Financial Times
Matt Moore / Associated Press:
Marvel Releasing Some 700 No. 1 Issues Digitally
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