Mediagazer: Did Google just kill RSS? (Felix Salmon/Reuters)

1:45 PM ET, March 15, 2013

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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 …

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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Pat Kiernan calms us down about the NY1 name change — “It will all be fine,” NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan has just assured me in an email. “The corporate office fully understands how important the channel is to the city.” — I had asked him about the plans to rebrand NY1 …

Reuters:

Thomson Reuters employee indicted for aiding hackers: court filing — SAN FRANCISCO (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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Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post:

Matthew Keys Suspended By Reuters After Being Charged In Connection With Anonymous Hack — Matthew Keys, a 26-year-old social media editor who has been charged with helping Anonymous attack the website of his former employer, has been suspended with pay, a Thomson Reuters spokesman told The Huffington Post.

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Stefan Becket / New York Magazine:
Indictment Probably Wasn't a Surprise for Reuters Social Media Editor

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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

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Boston Phoenix closing is another sign that glossing up print doesn't work miracles — The Boston Phoenix, one of the nation's most storied alt weeklies, closed yesterday afternoon. Here's the goodbye letter from editor Carly Carioli. — This is very sad news; a huge number …

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Justin Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Boston Phoenix, down in flames

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Jim Romenesko:
Boston Phoenix is folding

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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, The Informer and LA Observed

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% …

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Lucia Moses / 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 …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Sky News reporter detained 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 was detained by Chinese police while filming in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

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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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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

New York Times Reorganizes Staff to Promote Online Operations — New York Times Co. (NYT), reshuffling its staff after the arrival of Chief Executive Officer Mark Thompson last year, will create three new groups in an effort to streamline the company and promote its online operations.

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 …