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11:05 PM ET, March 21, 2013

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Reuters:
HBO CEO mulls teaming with broadband partners for HBO GO  —  (Reuters) - HBO could widen access to its HBO GO online streaming service by teaming up with broadband Internet providers for customers who do not subscribe to a cable TV service, according to HBO's Chief Executive Richard Plepler.
MediaShift:
Facebook Managing Editor Steps Down, Says Site 'Doesn't Need Reporters'  —  Facebook managing editor Dan Fletcher announced Wednesday that he will be leaving the social media giant next month.  Speaking before a crowded audience at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication …
David Cameron / The Review Review:
The New Yorker Rejects Itself: A Quasi-Scientific Analysis of Slush Piles  —  It began as the kind of logical argument that seems airtight to anyone who has never studied logic.  If the New Yorker is the most desirable literary magazine in the world, and if the New Yorker can have any short story …
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Global Ticket Sales for Movies Rise 6%  —  LOS ANGELES — Movie ticket sales around the world rose 6 percent last year, to $34.7 billion from $32.6 billion in 2011, as China became the world's second-biggest market for theatrical films after the United States, according to statistics released …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Emily Bell / Guardian:
The press regulation charter is illiterate about the internet  —  The Leveson-inspired draft bill deals with the past, not the future, of the press in failing to address the myriad ways we now receive ‘news’  —  If Maria Miller, the culture secretary, has sat in as many conferences on the …
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Robert X. Cringely / InfoWorld:
Here lies Web journalism, dead at the hand of the almighty advertiser  —  Don't know if you've noticed, but there's a hullabaloo over online ads masquerading as editorial on the Web these days.  I'm here to tell you that the situation is actually much worse than you might think.
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …, Thanks:@steverubel
Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room  —  Leicester-based blogger's monitoring of weapons used in conflict has been taken up by media and human rights groups  —  Eliot Higgins has no need for a flak jacket, nor does he carry himself with the bravado of a war reporter.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Small Business Web Ad Dollars: Still Way Too Small  —  Hey, Google!  And Yahoo, and Yelp, and Twitter and Facebook and every other Web company that says it wants to sell ads to mom-and-pop shops: Try harder.  —  So says Boston Consulting Group, out with a new report that shows only 3 percent of small-business ad dollars going online.
The Huffington Post:
Pope Personally Calls To Cancel His Newspaper Subscription In Argentina  —  Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected the 266th pope of the Catholic Church last week and took on the name Francis.  Like any other person moving to a new city (in his case - The Vatican) …
Discussion: Catholic News Agency
Jason Zaragoza / AAN:
Print Readership of the Chicago Reader ... Rising?  —  In a post on Time Out Chicago's decision to end its print edition, Michael Miner reveals that print readership of the Chicago Reader has grown by 38 percent(!) since 2010, according to figures from The Media Audit:
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Court affirms Isohunt copyright infringement, says company encouraged piracy  —  A federal appeals court has decided that Isohunt, a BitTorrent index accused by a Hollywood film studio of encouraging users to share pirated moves and TV shows, is liable for the copyright infringement committed …
 
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Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Murrey Marder, Early McCarthy Skeptic, Dies at 93
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