Mediagazer: Henry Blodget says Business Insider is growing, but it's still losing money (Mathew Ingram/paidContent)

Columbia Looks Ahead in an Age of Disruption — Entering Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on the Upper West Side of New York, there is academic majesty wherever you look. — Past the lamps with the iron claws and the statue of Jefferson ("Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press" …

Discussion: @markcoddington and @fredamoon

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo — Aereo Inc., the Web television startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has discussed partnerships with major pay-TV distributors and Internet service providers, including AT&T Inc. and Dish Network Corp., as it looks to roll out its fledgling service …

Discussion: Reuters, paidContent, Deadline.com, TechCrunch, Light Reading, CNET, World Internet TV on PC, SlashGear and The Verge

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Aereo wins major court battle against TV networks — The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has just rejected an appeal from TV networks against Aereo, concluding that Aereo's system does not infringe the broadcaster's copyrights. Broadcasters argued that unlike Cablevision …

Discussion: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, 9to5Mac and Engadget

Cary Spivak / American Journalism Review:

Solving the Hyperlocal Puzzle — Joe Ricketts doesn't think small. Ricketts helped revolutionize online stock market trading by creating TD Ameritrade. More recently, he has been using his money to torment President Barack Obama and — with family members — buy the Chicago Cubs.

Discussion: Street Fight and Change of Subject

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Henry Blodget says Business Insider is growing, but it's still losing money — When Business Insider founder Henry Blodget opened up about his website's traffic and business model a few months ago, we noted that he didn't reveal the most important thing about it — namely, whether it was profitable or not.

Discussion: New Yorker, The Awl, Capital New York, AllThingsD, Business Insider, DealBook, Talking Biz News and @emilybell

Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:

The Vice guide to the world. — Late in February, in the Ryugyong Chung Ju-yung Indoor Stadium, in Pyongyang, North Korea, ten thousand stiff-looking spectators in gray Mao suits gathered to watch a basketball game. Vice Media, the Brooklyn-based company, had arranged to have members …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Nat'l Magazine Award finalists announced — The American Society of Magazine Editors has announced the finalists for the 2013 National Magazine Awards, or Ellies, which are considered the most prestigious awards in the industry. — On the political front, Bloomberg Businessweek's …

Discussion: magazine.org, FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News

Hank Green:

Lessons Learned from YouTube's $300M Hole — For those of you who don't know, John and I were recipients of part of YouTube's “Original Channel” funding initiative. We used that money to start Crash Course and SciShow. We were extremely excited to get the chance to have some real capital …

Discussion: Beyond Search

Kim Christensen / Los Angeles Times:

O.C. Register's university ad deals pose credibility questions — UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton and Chapman University each agreed to pay $275,000 for ads in weekly sections packed with positive news about their schools. — Some Register staffers have expressed concerns …

Discussion: @jeffjarvis, Orange County Register, @dannysullivan and FishbowlLA

Erik Maza / WWD:

Hearst's New CEO Steve Swartz Talks Business, Succession — NEW YORK — Frank Bennack Jr. had some advice for Steve Swartz. It was 2000 and Swartz was the editor in chief of Smart Money magazine, which he founded eight years earlier after a career that had been on fast-forward at The Wall Street Journal.

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Rushfield Out at BuzzFeed — If you look at the masthead for BuzzFeed Entertainment, there's a rather conspicuous name missing. That's because LA bureau chief Richard Rushfield is no longer part of the operation. — “Indeed, I have parted ways from BuzzFeed,” …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

HuffPost Live Thrives on Tape — Late last summer, Huffington Post launched a streaming video news service, backed by 100 employees, lots of cash and a heap of hype. — So how's it going? — Pretty good, says HuffPost Live boss Roy Sekoff. Especially if you choose to look at HuffPost Live …