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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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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.

Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post: Matthew Keys Suspended By Reuters After Being Charged In Connection With Anonymous Hack

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

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Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
Reuters Employee Exposed as Alleged Anonymous Agent (Updating)

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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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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

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 …

Discussion: Capital New York

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% …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and NetNewsCheck Latest

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.

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 were detained by Chinese police while filming in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

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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 …

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Digg announces plan to build an RSS reader with 'the best of Google Reader's features,' including its API

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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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John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+

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Jenni Avins / New York Magazine:

Donald and Ivanka Trump, Wendi Murdoch Digging the New York Observer Lately — The New York Observer's new editor Ken Kurson wrote this week that the paper intends to “continue to own the microcommunities of power” of New York City. Last night, members of those microcommunities celebrated …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Former NY Times Editor Bill Keller On Tech Cults, Native Advertising And The Benefits Of Buyouts — Bill Keller obviously has something of a love/hate relationship with the internet. The former New York Times executive editor has written columns questioning the societal value of Twitter …