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9:50 AM ET, March 15, 2013

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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 …
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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.
Stefan Becket / New York Magazine:
Indictment Probably Wasn't a Surprise for Reuters Social Media Editor
Discussion: L.A. NOW
Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
Reuters Employee Exposed as Alleged Anonymous Agent (Updating)
Don Kaplan / NY Daily News:
Time Warner Cable makes move to rename NY1 so viewers know it's an exclusive news channel  —  Market research has shown that viewers are not aware that NY1 is owned and only broadcast on Time Warner Cable, says TWC spokeswoman Amy Summers.  The move to rename the channel will reinforce …
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.
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% …
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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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Google Reader, please don't go — I need you to do my job
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Sky News reporter arrested while filming live on air in China  —  Mark Stone and cameraman, Andy Portch, were held for not displaying passes as they filmed in Tiananmen Square  —  Sky News correspondent Mark Stone has been detained by Chinese police while filming in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Adweek:
Tunku Varadarajan Leaves Newsweek Global  —  Three months into its experiment as an all-digital publication, Newsweek Global is losing its editor, Tunku Varadarajan.  —  Varadarajan had been the editor of Newsweek International, a post he inherited from Fareed Zakaria …
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
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Bobby Ghosh has been named the editor of Time International, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Martha Nelson and Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel told staffers in an announcement Friday morning.  “[T]his appointment has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he saved me from getting tear-gassed in Tahrir Square last year,” the memo reads.
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Thrillist CEO: 45% of revenue now comes from our iPhone app  —  NEW YORK CITY — Thrillist CEO Ben Lerer said today at the F.ounders conference that 45 percent of the company's revenue now comes from its JackThreads iPhone app, a stunning stat that shows a mobile-intensive strategy can sometimes pay off.
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:
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 …
 
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Discussion: LA Observed
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sources: Olbermann's inability to get a job cited in Current TV settlement
Discussion: Chickaboomer
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
What would the perfect news application designed for Google Glass look like?
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
CBS Brings Ad-Sponsored Streaming TV To iPhone And iPad; Social Integration, Android & Windows 8 Support Still To Come
Press Gazette:
Cameron urges Parliament to back Royal Charter: 'There is no point producing a system the press won't take part in'
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Paul Salopek's slow-journalism walk around the world earns nonprofit status from the IRS
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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