Mediagazer: What's Next For Ridley Scott? YouTube. (Tessa Stuart/BuzzFeed)

7:20 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.

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

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

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 …

Discussion: TVNewser

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Softpedia News, Techdirt, Fuse, BBC, Business Insider, ANIMAL, Rolling Stone, NME, Media Decoder, philebrity.com and The Music Network

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 …

Discussion: Deadline.com, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter, Examiner, Digital Spy, 411mania.com, Flicks and Bits, screendaily.com, Hero Complex, C21Media, The Wrap, Mashable!, The Next Web, Empire News and The Verge

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Spotify Said Expanding Pandora-Like Web Radio Worldwide — Spotify Ltd., the subscription music-streaming service, is close to agreements with record labels to expand its free mobile radio product outside the U.S., said three people with knowledge of the talks.

Discussion: CNET, paidContent, TechCrunch and The Verge

Erik Wemple:

Boston.com had no control over bogus Krugman post — The Daily Currant makes another round of headlines with its satire. Weeks ago, it bamboozled the Washington Post into believing that Sarah Palin had signed on with Al Jazeera as a commentator. — Now it has hoaxed the journalism world …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, Slate, msnbc.com, The Week, Mediaite, The Raw Story, Media Nation, Capital New York and The Huffington Post

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Can E-Books Work for Publishers? — This is the second in a four-part series, “Fixing The Publisher Model,” looking at how publishers are experimenting with new models that can bring in additional revenue. — Publishers across the board are hunting for dollars beyond advertising …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, @tcarmody and @tcarmody

Jennifer Howard / Chronicle of Higher Education:

In the Digital Era, Our Dictionaries Read Us — For Peter Sokolowski, a high-profile event like the 9/11 attacks or the 2012 vice-presidential debate is not just news. It's a “vocabulary event” that sends readers racing to their dictionaries. — Sokolowski is editor at large for Merriam-Webster …

Evan Weiner / The Daily Beast:

Rupert Murdoch Goes All-In on College Sports — News Corp. is about to shower hundreds of millions of dollars on big sports schools in exchange for the right to broadcast the games. Evan Weiner on how the athletes get short-changed. — As college basketball's March Madness approaches …