Mediagazer: News Corp. Confirms Launch of New Cable Outlet, FXX (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

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 …

Discussion: Forbes, New York Times, PublishersWeekly.com, Tools of Change for Publishing, Publishers Lunch, Publishing Perspectives, Melville House Books, Wired and Daily Dot

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com, paidContent, Softpedia News, VatorNews, Fast Company, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Betabeat, Pocket-lint and AllThingsD

Otis Chandler / Goodreads:
Exciting News About Goodreads: We're Joining the Amazon Family!

Discussion: Amazon.com, Forbes, Forbes, Consumerist, The Next Web, CNET, TechCrunch, SocialTimes, PandoDaily, AppNewser, imediamonkey, ReadWrite, Businessweek, Mashable, Adweek, Bloomberg, Marketing Pilgrim, @tcarmody, ZDNet, @laurahazardowen, @emilygould, GeekWire, WebProNews, @rafat and Business Insider

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 …

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.

Discussion: @petersterne, @abrams, @thestalwart and College Media Matters

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 …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Screen Rant, The Inquisitr, seattlepi.com, Associated Press, Broadcasting & Cable, Wall Street Journal, Adweek and The Huffington Post

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 …

Discussion: AppleInsider, App Advice, Softpedia News and 9to5Mac

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.