Mediagazer: Cinedigm creating new paradigm for digital movie distribution (Richard Verrier/Los Angeles Times)

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.

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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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Committee to Protect Journalists:

China's new leadership faces censorship challenge — China's new leaders will face unprecedented challenges to controlling the media, even as journalists' efforts to test the system continue to carry great risk, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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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 …