Mediagazer: Twitter Is Getting Into The Music Business (Megan Rose Dickey/Business Insider)

4:50 PM ET, March 13, 2013

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Conde Nast Creates New Job for Anna Wintour — Anna Wintour, who will mark her 25th anniversary as the editor of Vogue magazine this summer and who for the last year has been the subject of persistent rumors about a possible ambassadorship in the Obama administration, is taking on the additional role …

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Print-on-demand: A way to turn digital products into print revenue without the risk? — Could turning digital-only content into print be a viable extra revenue stream? — Digital publishing used to be an adjunct to print - the icing on the cake of print circulation and advertising that was the foundation of a publisher's business.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

NPR Wants to Click With Those Who Tweet — AUSTIN, Tex. — NPR might not seem like the most obvious host of a party at the sprawling South by Southwest Interactive conference. But it, like so many other old-line media companies, wants and needs what the conference, part of the South by Southwest festivals, has: youthful energy.

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Netflix Adds Social Options, Facebook Ties for U.S. Users — Netflix Inc. (NFLX), the online video service, began offering U.S. subscribers the ability to peer into each others' digital movie libraries in a long-awaited partnership with Facebook Inc. (FB) — The software, updating features offered …

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Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Apple CEO Cook must testify in e-books antitrust case: judge — (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook must sit for a deposition in the U.S. government's lawsuit against the company over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

‘Snow Fall,’ Denver Post's Aurora coverage win ASNE awards — ASNE — ASNE announced its awards Wednesday for the best journalism of 2012. They honored The New York Times' “Snow Fall” project, which ASNE said “sets a new standard for online storytelling.”

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

CBS Expands Digital Deals with ‘Good Wife’ Syndie Pact … CBS is diving deeper into the digital licensing arena with syndie pacts for “The Good Wife” with Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus. Pact marks the first time the Eye has made episodes of a current series available for streaming.

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Big publishers sign on to New York Times sticky ad tool — The New York Times Company last year unveiled an ad tool called Ricochet that allows brands to staple their online ads to stories as they move across the internet and social media. Now, other prominent publications like The New Yorker …

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Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

Twitter Is Getting Into The Music Business — Twitter is entering the music business, CNET's Casey Newton reports. — Twitter quietly acquired music-discovery startup We Are Hunted last year, according to CNET. — Since the acquisition, Twitter has been using its technology to develop …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT design honcho on redesign: 'We're not going to do things that don't work' — The New York Times lifted the veil on its redesign efforts Tuesday, showing off prototypes of article pages as they might appear on the Web and on tablets. Reached by phone, Times director of digital design Ian Adelman …

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Stephen Few / Perceptual Edge:

O'Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul — Several years ago I was courted by O'Reilly Media. After the success of my first book, Show Me the Numbers, the folks at O'Reilly were interested in publishing my second. I responded cautiously at first, because my prior self-publishing experience was extremely positive.

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Amy Coopes / Agence France Presse:

Australia defends media reforms amid ‘Stalinism’ claims — SYDNEY — Australia defended proposed media reforms arising from Britain's phone-hacking scandal Wednesday after a heated backlash from Rupert Murdoch's local operations, which labelled them dictatorial.