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9:25 PM ET, March 15, 2013

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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 …
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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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The Huffington Post:
Matthew Keys Was An Undercover Journalist, Attorney Says  —  Matthew Keys, the Reuters deputy social media editor charged with helping Anonymous attack the website of his former employer, acted as an “undercover” journalist when he communicated with members of the hacker group, his attorneys told The Huffington Post Friday.
Stefan Becket / New York Magazine:
Indictment Probably Wasn't a Surprise for Reuters Social Media Editor
Discussion: L.A. NOW, KTLA 5 and Poynter
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed to Launch Business Section  —  BuzzFeed, the news and entertainment website known for its mix of animal lists and political scoops designed to be shared on social networks, is launching a business section.  —  The move, which Buzzfeed plans to announce Monday …
Susan Orlean / New Yorker:
Memories of the Phoenix  —  I attended the University of Michigan, but I got my real education at alternative newsweeklies.  That's where I learned to write, to report, and to think of myself as a journalist; that's where I grew up.  Even now, many years out from my last newsweekly job …
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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 …
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Maxim Magazine Exploring a Sale  —  Maxim, the lad mag that doles out advice and ribald humor that is especially appreciated in military circles, is on the market.  —  The magazine's parent company, Alpha Media Group, announced Friday that its board of directors had decided to sell or find …
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.
Felix Salmon:
The many flavors of native content  —  A story about smartphone use in emerging markets appeared on Quartz Wednesday morning.  The byline at the top is that of Donald Fitzmaurice, the CEO of Brandtone, who wrote the introduction and the conclusion.  The rest of the piece comprises short country reports …
Discussion: Edelman and NetNewsCheck Latest
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Documentary Filmmaker Sues AP for Stealing Footage  —  To show an exclusive New York island where filming isn't permitted, a reporter allegedly downloaded a non-fiction film, bypassed access-control measures and inserted portions into a news report.  —  How worried are non-fiction filmmakers about reporters taking their work?
Discussion: Boing Boing
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Publishing launches literary fiction imprint, Little A  —  Amazon Publishing is launching a new imprint, called Little A, that will publish literary fiction — novels and collections of stories — and memoir.  —  Little A joins Amazon's six other imprints, which focus on genres like romance and science fiction.
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
 
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Bobby Ghosh has been named the editor of Time International …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Sky News reporter detained while filming live on air in China
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
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Bloomberg:
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Discussion: The Corsair and Motley Fool