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2:05 PM ET, April 1, 2013

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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: newsplexer, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @markcoddington and @fredamoon

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: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, @profjeffjarvis, 9to5Mac and Engadget

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, AdAge, Radio & Television …, Deadline.com, paidContent, GeekWire, TechCrunch, World Internet TV on PC, SlashGear, CNET and The Verge

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

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 …

Discussion: New York Magazine

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, AllThingsD, Capital New York, Business Insider, DealBook, Talking Biz News and @emilybell

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal — Michael Shapiro isn't the sort of person I'd expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He's a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he's …

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, Columbia Journalism Review, Culture, Folio, Adweek and @dgelles

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

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Drones Will Deliver The Morning Paper In France — Pimply delivery boys will need to find a new way to make money in France: the province of Auvergne will pilot a drone newspaper delivery service in May. The official postal service, La Poste Group, has already been beta-testing …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Business Insider

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.

Nancy Benac / Associated Press:

Obama 'Limiting Press Access In Ways That Past Administrations Wouldn't Have Dared' — WASHINGTON (AP) — A photo of the Obamas hugging that was released on Election Day 2012 has become the world's most popular tweet on Twitter. A dressed-up version of Barack Obama's State of the Union speech …