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11:25 AM ET, March 29, 2013

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
NPR to End ‘Talk of the Nation’  —  BOSTON — NPR is ending the 21-year-old call-in radio show “Talk of the Nation” and encouraging local stations to replace it with an expanded version of “Here and Now,” an afternoon newscast that is produced here.  —  The plan, announced Friday …
Discussion: NPR, NPR and Politico
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
“First do no harm”: My interview with Amazon and Goodreads on the future of Goodreads  —  Amazon announced Thursday afternoon that it has acquired the popular book-related social networking site Goodreads for an undisclosed sum.  I spoke with Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon's VP …
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Otis Chandler / Goodreads:
Exciting News About Goodreads: We're Joining the Amazon Family!
Christopher Heine / Adweek:
Business Insider's Slideshows Are Now Ads, Too  —  Business Insider has become known all-too-well for making its site sticky with a constant procession of topical or newsy slideshows.  —  Well, the New York-based digital publisher this week started to monetize the idea with a sponsored gallery ad unit …
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Dan Reimold / MediaShift:
Business Insider Just Told College Students Their Secrets of Success  —  Earlier this month, in a Manhattan hotel conference room, a student journalist admitted being nervous about an upcoming business reporting internship.  “I'm going to be blunt,” she said.  “I'm 20.  I don't know about the Stock Exchange.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed launching longform ‘BuzzReads’ section  —  BuzzFeed's longform content will now have a place to linger: A new section called “BuzzReads” launches today.  “It's BuzzFeed for people who are afraid of BuzzFeed,” the site's longform editor, Steve Kandell, told Poynter in a phone call Thursday night.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
News Corp. Confirms Launch of New Cable Outlet, FXX … Does an extra X garner more $?  —  News Corp. is gambling that it will.  The entertainment conglomerate confirmed Thursday that it would launch a second general-entertaiment cable network as a companion to its FX network and its FXM outlet …
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
President of HBO Sports says HBO Go will stream live events by the end of this year  —  But HBO spokesman denies that HBO Go will feature live boxing  —  At Harvard Law School's Sports Law Symposium today, HBO Sports president Ken Hershman said that live sports would be on HBO Go by the end of this year …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-Daily Beaster Felsenthal heads to Time.com  —  Ed Felsenthal, an ex-Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor and No. 2 to Tina Brown at the Daily Beast, is joining Time as the new managing editor of Time.com, Media Ink has learned.  —  Felsenthal left Newsweek/Daily Beast at the end of 2011 …
Discussion: Poynter
Hollywood Reporter:
State-Owned Chinese Film Studio Sues Apple  —  Shanghai Animation Film Studio claims the Cupertino-based tech giant sold its films in the iTunes store without proper permission.  —  A State-owned Chinese animation studio has filed suit against Apple in a Beijing court …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Watch out, internet: Dave Winer is back in the business of making blogging tools  —  He may not have the same kind of public profile as the teenaged founder who sold his company to Yahoo for $30 million, or the founders of hot apps like SnapChat or Instagram, but Dave Winer has done a lot …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Cooking site Food52 raises $2M to expand publishing, mobile and shopping initiatives  —  Food52, the crowdsourced cooking website cofounded by former New York Times food writer Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, has raised $2 million in Series A funding, the company announced on its blog Wednesday.
Discussion: Food52 and PandoDaily
Erik Wemple:
NYT's Keller talked with Columbia about journalism dean job  —  Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller says he got a call from the search firm that assisted in finding a replacement for Nicholas Lemann atop the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  “They asked if I was interested,” says Keller.
 
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The Guardian:
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Foreign Affairs:
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Keith Weir / Reuters:
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Two years in: Reflections on the New York Times paywall
Edmund Lee / Businessweek:
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Discussion: @natives
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
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