Mediagazer: Google To Close Google Reader On July 1 (Danny Sullivan/Marketing Land)

9:30 PM ET, March 13, 2013

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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 …

Discussion: John Pavlus and New York Times

Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Inside the New York Times' web redesign

Discussion: New York Magazine and Digiday

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Google To Close Google Reader On July 1 — Google Reader user? Say goodbye. Google has announced the service is closing on July 1. — The news came today in a “Spring Cleaning” blog post from Google, where the company said: … I'm pretty amazed to read this.

Discussion: GigaOM, Official Google Reader Blog, googleblog.blogspot.ca, Mashable!, VentureBeat, CNET, Gizmodo Australia and The Next Web

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

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.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and ReadWrite

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.

Discussion: paidContent, AllThingsD, MacRumors, CNET, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac

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.

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Adweek, Los Angeles Times, AdAge, Broadcasting & Cable and Cinema Blend Television

Josh Dickey / Variety:

$2 Million for ‘Veronica Mars’ Breaks Kickstarter Records, Gets Greenlight … Here's a Hollywood success story sure to kickstart a crowd of copycats: The “Veronica Mars” movie is getting made, thanks to a Kickstarter campaign that within hours of launching Wednesday became the fastest …

Discussion: Kickstarter, The Wrap, Gawker, Inside TV, Deadline.com, Washington Post, @zeldawilliams, Spoiler TV, Hypable, @hankgreen, CNNMoney.com, TechCrunch, The Atlantic Wire and Speakeasy

Rory Carroll / Guardian:

Keith Olbermann settles lawsuit with Al Gore's Current TV for $50m — Famously rambunctious broadcaster was fired last year, triggering angry recriminations aimed at former employer — Keith Olbermann may never get another job in television but quite possibly does not need one after settling …

Discussion: Forbes, Deadline.com, Inside TV and The Huffington Post

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.

Discussion: Poynter, Beet.TV, @vivianschiller and @jeffjohnroberts

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 …

Discussion: CNET, The Music Network, NME, Fast Company, The Next Web, GigaOM, Gizmodo and TechCrunch

Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:

Looking Back, Moving Forward — I've been a fan of this newspaper for more than 20 years and its editor for less than three months. One of the things that people keep asking from me—demanding, actually—is that most noxious of modern conventions, “the elevator pitch.”

Bloomberg:

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 …

Discussion: The Official Netflix Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, @pkafka, The Chutry Experiment, Digits, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, GigaOM, FierceOnlineVideo News and The Verge

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.”

Discussion: Digital First Media, NetNewsCheck Latest and Center for Investigative …