Mediagazer: The New CNN Gets Into the Big Data Game (Sam Thielman/Adweek)

10:25 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: pressgazette.co.uk and The Wall Blog

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 …

Discussion: AllThingsD

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Spotify Said Expanding Pandora-Like Web Radio Worldwide

Discussion: hypebot and The Verge

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 …

Tommy Craggs / Deadspin: Welcome To The New Deadspin — Hi. The place looks different, doesn't it?

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 …

Discussion: Market Wire

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.

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

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

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 …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Nation, Pressing Issues, emptywheel and Poynter

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 …

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.

Discussion: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, paidContent, Business Insider, Guardian and @pkafka

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.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Beyond Search, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, VatorNews, Business Insider, GigaOM, AllThingsD, ZDNet, GeekWire, CNET, The Verge, Mashable!, Electronista and App Advice

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.