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10:25 AM ET, March 14, 2013

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Chris Hayes to Take Over 8 P.M. Slot on MSNBC — Chris Hayes will take over the 8 p.m. time slot on MSNBC in the next month, the channel is expected to announce on Thursday morning, the day after the current host of that hour, Ed Schultz, said he was moving from the weekdays to the weekends.

Discussion: TVNewser, Politico, TVNewser, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com, nbcuniversal.presscentre.com, @brianstelter, The Week, The Raw Story, Broadcasting & Cable and New York Magazine

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects — You would think that Chris Wetherell, an early creator of Google Reader (and part of the team that eventually made it happen) would be feeling sorry for himself — after all Google had decided to euthanize a product he …

Discussion: Marco.org, Building Feedly, Slate, Reuters, BBC and Softpedia News

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Google Reader, please don't go — I need you to do my job — When I learned Wednesday night that Google Reader is shutting down, I literally broke into a sweat. Like many journalists, I've come to rely on the 242 RSS subscriptions I manage through Google Reader.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Marketing Land, The Verge, New York Magazine and @abbruns

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

Discussion: Official Google Reader Blog, The Official Google Blog, Lifehacker, One Man & His Blog, Wired, BuzzFeed, Mashable!, @journalismnews, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo Australia, The Next Web and CNET

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Biden's office forces reporter to delete photos, apologizes — A staffer for Vice President Joe Biden demanded that a reporter delete photos he'd taken at an event in Rockville, Md., Tuesday. The vice president's office later apologized to University of Maryland J-school Dean Lucy Dalglish …

Discussion: CNS Maryland

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, FishbowlNY, Media Decoder and USA Today

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.

Discussion: New York Magazine, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, The Week and Pressing Issues

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

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?

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Print-on-demand: A way to turn digital products into print revenue without the risk?

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Kirk LaPointe's …

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, Inside TV, The Atlantic Wire, @cdixon, @eugenewei, A VC, @alexisohanian, @awallenstein, Deadline.com, @zeldawilliams, Spoiler TV, Hypable, @hankgreen, Washington Post, CNNMoney.com, The Wrap, Gawker, TechCrunch and Speakeasy

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.

Discussion: Guardian, Media Week, Guy Fawkes' blog, Reuters, Huffington Post UK, HoldTheFrontPage and The Drum

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Herring Plans to Launch New Conservative News Network — Fox News may soon have some company on the cable news dial. — The San Diego family behind niche cable channel WealthTV is partnering with the Washington Times to launch a 24-hour conservative-leaning cable news network.

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.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Jake Tapper: ‘Independence Is Essential’ For New CNN Show — NEW YORK — As white smoke signaled the selection of a new pope Wednesday, Jake Tapper's executive producer informed him they'd have to blow up the day's show to focus on the big news from the Vatican. — Well, not an actual show.

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 …

Discussion: FierceOnlineVideo News

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