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5:35 PM ET, March 12, 2013

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Tanner Colby / Slate:

Regrettable — The troubling things I learned when I re-reported Bob Woodward's book on John Belushi. A little more than a week ago, during an interview with Politico, Bob Woodward came forward to claim he'd been threatened in an email by a “senior White House official” …

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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 …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Kochs: No comment on Tribune rumors — Conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch are declining to confirm or deny a report that they are considering a bid for The Tribune Company papers, including the Los Angeles Times. — “As an entrepreneurial company with 60,000 employees around the world …

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Mike Shields / Adweek:

Vevo Launches Linear Web Network With an Eye on Cable — Music videos are coming back to your TV, 24 hours a day. MTV has nothing to do with it. And neither do any computer algorithms. — Instead, Vevo, which was built as the ultimate on-demand hub for music videos on the Web …

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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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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.

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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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Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:

WikiLeaks: recording of Bradley Manning court testimony leaked — A leaked recording of Bradley Manning's testimony in a military court has given the public its first chance to hear the young soldier justifying his decision to leak hundreds of thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks.

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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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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 …

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Robot reporters: A look at the computers writing the news — When a 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck in California at 5.28am on 1 February, the Los Angeles Times reported the news. The story was published at 5.36am, just eight minutes later, complete with a map showing the epicentre of the quake.

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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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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:

What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM — Adding DRM to the HTML standard will have far-reaching effects, incompatible with the W3C's most important policies — After Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's keynote talk at SXSW, he answered a question about the controversial plan to add DRM to next version of HTML.

Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:

Welcome To The New Deadspin — Hi. The place looks different, doesn't it? The sofa's over there now, where the Fillmore West '69 poster used to be. We tossed the Yaffa blocks and the lava lamp, and we managed to sell Magary's old futon on Craigslist, even though the mattress was starting to look like the Shroud of Turin.

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