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9:05 AM ET, March 14, 2013

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Antone Gonsalves / ReadWrite:
Pay-As-You-Read E-Bookselling Won't Make It Off The Shelves  —  Entrepreneurs have often used technology to bring us services we didn't even know we needed.  Who would have thought a billion people would be willing to share their lives on Facebook and hundreds of millions more would change the news industry by microblogging on Twitter?
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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Print-on-demand: A way to turn digital products into print revenue without the risk?
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Meet Scott Prouty, the 47 Percent Video Source  —  For months, he and I shared a big secret and repeatedly discussed whether he should go public or stay hidden.  —  “Scott Prouty.”  —  The fellow on the other end of the phone call pronounced his name with hesitation.
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 …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Redbox Instant ready to open its doors to the public  —  Redbox Instant by Verizon may be ready to launch its public beta test as early as Thursday, GigaOM has learned from an industry insider.  The joint-venture between Verizon and Redbox launched its private beta test in December …
Discussion: Motley Fool
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Declining value of classified websites and Sun Sunday launch cost Trinity Mirror £72m  —  Regional and national press group Trinity Mirror today reported revenue down 7.1 per cent to £706.5m but adjusted operating profit up by 2.5 per cent to £107.1m.
Anette Novak / INMA:
By helping others become competent communicators, legacy media make themselves stronger  —  Strengthening community competence and awareness is not only a good deed.  It is a great business opportunity.  And a relationship builder.  No bond is stronger than the one you bind while learning together.
Andrew Woodcock / Press Association:
Leveson press reform proposal discussions break down  —  Cross-party talks on proposed reforms to press regulation have broken down after Prime Minister David Cameron told the other party leaders that the gap between them was too great.  —  Mr Cameron is shortly expected to announce plans …
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.
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Spinoff of Time Inc. Rattles Employees  —  It was an elite reception at a glittery Manhattan setting: prominent media figures like Gayle King and Lesley Stahl gathered on the 10th floor of the Time Warner Center on Monday night to toast Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook executive who recently released a book about her life.
Discussion: Bloomberg and USA Today
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Nielsen Finally Realizes That TV Viewers Are Cord Cutting, Calls It ‘Interesting Consumer Behavior’  —  For many years we've written stories about the TV industry being in complete denial over cord cutting (i.e., getting rid of pay TV).  The industry has denied that anyone was doing this …
Fruzsina Eordogh / Motherboard:
In Defense of Reddit: The SXSW Controversy That Just Won't Die  —  We could have seen this coming.  —  Last Friday, Adrian Chen of Gawker, Farhad Manjoo of Slate, and Rebecca Watson of Skepchick gave what observers called an unbalanced and negative critique of the web community in their SXSW panel …
Discussion: Businessweek
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Operation Weeting: four arrests over alleged Sunday Mirror phone hacking  —  Scotland Yard states arrests of one woman and three men are mainly concerned with the Sunday Mirror in 2003 and 2004  —  Four current or former Mirror Group Newspapers journalists, thought to have worked …
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
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Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Inside the New York Times' web redesign
Discussion: Martin Belam and New York Magazine
 
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Universal Music and Samsung target Africa with The Kleek streaming music service
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Steven Bird / The Conversation:
Cyberlinguistics: recording the world's vanishing voices
Rory Carroll / Guardian:
Keith Olbermann settles lawsuit with Al Gore's Current TV for $50m
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Looking Back, Moving Forward
Discussion: Capital New York
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Pirate Bay Co-Founders Can't Overturn Conviction on Free Speech Grounds
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending
 
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