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12:20 PM 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.
Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Vevo Starts 24-Hour Ad-Supported Music Television Network  —  Vevo LLC, a provider of music videos on Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube, started a 24-hour music TV network that begins online and will expand to at least one pay- TV system later this year.  —  The broadcast-style network starts today …
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Mike Shields / Adweek:
Vevo Launches Linear Web Network With an Eye on Cable
Discussion: The Next Web
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT previews redesigned website  —  The New York Times is previewing its redesigned website.  A press release says Times employees inside the company's firewall can begin testing the new design at work today.  Readers can look at a reimagined article page and request access to the redesigned site.
Paul Sloan / CNET:
Spotify: Growing like mad, yet so far to go  —  The digital music service has added another 1 million subscribers since December, bringing its global total of paying customers to 6 million.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — It's not a bluegrass jam on the legendary Austin City Limits stage …
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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Spotify Said Expanding Pandora-Like Web Radio Worldwide
Discussion: hypebot and The Verge
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Politico hits 1,000 Pro subscriptions and plans to launch a magazine  —  Over a thousand organizations are now using subscription site Politico Pro, the politics website announced Tuesday.  Politico says the site reaches 7,000 professionals per month and has a renewal rate of 96 percent.
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mobile Publishing Platform Pressly Raises $1.5 Million, Launches To Public At Last  —  Pressly, the mobile publishing platform and former TechCrunch Disrupt finalist which makes websites smartphone and tablet-friendly, is today launching to the public, accompanied by $1.5 million in outside funding …
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 …
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?
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Vimeo now lets video producers sell and rent their work - and keep 90% of the revenue  —  Vimeo's business model has taken a major step forward today with the launch of Vimeo On Demand, an easy way for video producers to distribute and earn revenue from their work.
Hillel Aron / LA Weekly:
Are the Koch Brothers Trying to Buy the Los Angeles Times?  —  The latest rumor about the next owner of the L.A. Times, which is for sale, is a doozy.  A bombshell.  It's a doozy wrapped in a bombshell exploding inside a Drudge siren.  —  Multiple sources tell L.A. Weekly that Charles and David Koch …
Discussion: Poynter
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 …
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
 
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