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8:10 AM ET, March 15, 2013

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Politico:
Reuters' Matthew Keys indicted for conspiring with hacker group ‘Anonymous’  —  Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, has been charged in an indictment for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group “Anonymous” to hack into a Tribune Company website, the Justice Department announced today.
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The United States Department of Justice:
Former Web Producer Indicted in California for Conspiring with “Anonymous” Members to Attack Internet News Site  —  A former web producer for a Tribune Company-owned television station in Sacramento, Calif., was charged today in an indictment for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group …
Reuters:
Thomson Reuters employee indicted for aiding hackers: court filing  —  (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted Matthew Keys, deputy social media editor at Reuters.com, for conspiring with members of the Anonymous hacking collective to break into the computers of his former employer …
Jim Romenesko:
Boston Phoenix is folding  —  Boston's alt-weekly, founded in 1966, is closing.  I'm waiting for more information to post.
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Justin Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Boston Phoenix, down in flames  —  On Thursday afternoon, Boston Phoenix publisher Stephen Mindich announced that the 47-year-old alt-weekly would cease publication effective immediately.  The past few years “have been extremely difficult times for our Company,” Mindich said in a statement …
Digg Blog:
We're Building A Reader  —  Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st.  Through its many incarnations, Google Reader has remained a solid and reliable tool for those who want to ensure …
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Digg announces plan to build an RSS reader with 'the best of Google Reader's features,' including its API
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Working on Incorporating the Hashtag  —  Facebook Inc. is getting ready to take on a symbol of rival Twitter: the hashtag.  —  Facebook is working on incorporating the hashtag, one of Twitter Inc.'s most iconic markers, into its service, said people familiar with the matter.
Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Did Google just kill RSS?  —  On Tuesday, Google paid $7 million to settle charges with a coalition of 38 states in relation to its privacy breaches.  The 14-page agreement is pretty detailed, and includes promises from Google to spend a substantial amount of effort educating the public about the importance of securing wifi networks.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Web Video: Bigger and Less Profitable  —  People in the media business say that the future is online video.  Just how many companies will be able to profit is the big question.  —  Online video-advertising rates continue to fall.  Prices for ads on top-tier sites last year were down by 10% …
Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
Hulu's content chief Andy Forssell officially takes over as acting CEO  —  Hulu has officially announced that its SVP of content Andy Forssell is going to become its acting CEO when founding CEO Jason Kilar leaves the company at the end of the month.  Kilar made the announcement himself Thursday afternoon on Hulu's blog, writing:
Paul Bond / The Hollywood Reporter:
Billionaire Eli Broad Teams With Financier to Make L.A. Times Bid  —  The Los Angeles Times Building and 2nd and Spring streets downtown  —  The philanthropic Los Angeles businessman has joined with former Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner to make the Tribune Co.'s largest newspaper a nonprofit.
Discussion: Poynter and LA Observed
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Netflix Chief Product Officer: expect 4K streaming within a year or two  —  Neil Hunt talks site outages, streaming 4k, and the company's gold mine of user data  —  Neil Hunt is likely the most important Netflix executive that nobody's ever heard of.  While everyone in tech media knows CEO Reed Hastings …
Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi / Columbia Journalism Review:
The crime that altered India  —  In the wake of a brutal rape, a flawed media led a national self-examination  —  In Delhi, according to the police, a woman is raped every 18 hours, on average.  So it is worth wondering why the gang rape and murder of one 23-year old woman …
Jordan Zakarin / Hollywood Reporter:
ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons From Twitter After Criticizing Network  —  One of the sports network's biggest personalities called a segment that aired on “First Take” on Monday “awful and embarrassing,” allegedly drawing his employer's ire.  —  ESPN has suspended star commentator …
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Google Reader's demise is awful for Iranians, who use it to avoid censorship  —  Google's announcement that it's killing off Google Reader, the company's beloved, if not wildly popular, tool for consuming RSS feeds, was met with outrage from journalists and other, largely American nerds …
 
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Tim Nudd / Ad Age:
Apple apologizes for the “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plans to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's first server chips for its upcoming AI features will be the M2 Ultra; simpler AI tasks will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads, and Macs

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