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6:05 PM ET, April 2, 2013

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Associated Press:
‘Illegal immigrant’ no more  —  The AP Stylebook today is making some changes in how we describe people living in a country illegally.  Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll explains the thinking behind the decision: The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term …
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:   AP's Dropping Of ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Could Have Wide Ramifications For Media
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Syrian Newspapers Emerge to Fill Out War Reporting  —  ANTAKYA, Turkey — Absi Smesem became the editor in chief of a new weekly Syrian newspaper hoping to leave behind what he disparaged as the “Facebook phase” of the uprising.  —  The tall tales and outright misinformation that tainted …
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Alex Thomson / Channel 4:
Q&A: How foreign journalists operate in Syria  —  Judging by my twitter feed and inbox, an awful lot of people out there have some very wrong ideas about how ‘official’ reporting of the Syrian war happens with the government's permission, what controls are put on us and the key difference between reporting …
Peter Cluskey / The Irish Times:
New quality online ‘newspaper’ without ads planned for Dutch market  —  Amsterdam title itle is raising cash from subscribers  —  De Correspondent: raised more than one million euro in eight days … A new quality online “newspaper” due to launch in Amsterdam in September has raised …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
Choire Sicha / The Awl:
How Much Do BuzzFeed, Gawker and Business Insider Staff Tweet About Work?  —  Is Twitter your job?  We have maintained in the past that it is not.  A year later, we think that more and more media employees are engaged in the practice of using their Twitter accounts to promote not just their work, but their workplaces.
Lauren Indvik / Mashable:
The ‘Financial Times’ Has a Secret Weapon: Data  —  For more than a century, publishers knew very little about their audiences: who they were, their interests and professions, or what other materials they were reading.  Since newspapers went online two decades ago — The New York Times …
Adrienne LaFrance / Digital First Media:
Journal Register Company sale delay comes after late-minute union vote, Newspaper Guild says  —  A delay in the sale of Journal Register Company newspapers to 21st CMH Acquisition Co. is the result of an eleventh-hour union vote that will enable the deal to move forward, said Michigan Newspaper Guild president Lou Mleczko.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Changes afoot in ‘New York Times’ European bureaus  —  The New York Times building. wallyg via flickr  —  The New York Times' foreign desk today announced a handful of staffing changes in its European bureaus involving some of the paper's most recognizable bylines.
Sasha Chavkin / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Koch brothers' media investment  —  They are rumored to want the Tribune chain.  A look at Watchdog.org gives some clues about what that might mean.  —  Tribune Company's moves to sell its newspapers—a string that includes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune …
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Warner Bros. launches its own streaming video subscription sevice  —  The movie studios certainly get an A for thinking outside the box, or at least Warner Brothers does. the studio's online archive site, Warner Archive, has just launched a new streaming service that gives people access …
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
The New Yorker launches new tech and science vertical for its website  —  The New Yorker is today launching a new science and technology vertical and accompanying blog for its website, NewYorker.com.  —  The section will feature a mix of new posts and stories from the New Yorker's archives …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Explores Sale of U.S. Community Papers  —  News Corp . is exploring the sale of its Dow Jones Local Media group, the collection of community newspapers mainly on the East Coast that was formerly known as the Ottaway community newspapers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Jim Romenesko:
Tina Brown: ‘We do not have enough respect for content’  —  Daily Beast and Newsweek editor Tina Brown tells Bloomberg TV that “we're living in a time when everybody is so obsessed with delivery systems and gaming systems and business.  It is actually very, very soul destroying.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Poynter, Politico and @jeffjarvis
 
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The Orange County Register's new owners want to reinvent newspapers from the ground up
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
ESPN Mobile's growth shows the explosion in mobile usage
Discussion: AllThingsD
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CNN Latino expands into New York, Phoenix, Orlando, Tampa
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U.S. Digital TV Users Soaring
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Kobo starts selling e-readers directly through its website again
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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