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12:55 PM ET, April 3, 2013

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Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
A Leave of Presence  —  Thank you.  Forty-six years ago on April 3, 1967, I became the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.  Some of you have read my reviews and columns and even written to me since that time.  Others were introduced to my film criticism through the television show …
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Mark Caro / Chicago Tribune:
Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert cuts workload after cancer recurrence  —  Roger Ebert announced late Tuesday night that he is stepping back from some duties as the Chicago Sun-Times' film critic after a recurrence of cancer.  —  Calling the move a “leave of presence,” Ebert wrote on his online journal …
Jamal Osman / The Daily Beast:
Fake Somali Pirates Scam Western Journalists  —  Time magazine, Danish filmmakers among the outlets apparently fooled by Kenyan actors pretending to be Somali pirates. … The story begins in the slums of Eastleigh, a sprawling suburb of Nairobi in Kenya and home to a huge Somali community.
Reuters:
Google to sell second-gen Nexus 7 tablet from July: sources  —  (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet powered by Qualcomm Inc's Snapdragon processor around July, two sources told Reuters, as the software giant pushes deeper into the cut-price mobile hardware market.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Times Internet Is Bringing Business Insider To India, Adding To Its Gawker Media Partnership  —  Today, Times Internet, the digital arm of Times of India, is announcing a strategic partnership with Business Insider, the online business news site founded by Henry Blodget, for the launch of Business Insider India.
Discussion: MediaNama and Poynter
Leslie Meredith / TechNewsDaily:
Instagram and Vine Shake Up News Industry  —  News as we know it is poised to change, and it's in the hands of smartphone users.  —  On March 31, the New York Times ran a photo of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez taken by sports photographer Nick Laham — on his iPhone and edited in Instagram.
Discussion: 10,000 Words
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
Discussion: The Raw Story and msnbc.com
Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:
S.E.C. Sets Rules for Disclosures Using Social Media  —  Updated Chief executives can now feel free to post, blog or tweet — as long as they inform investors about their social media strategy first.  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday outlined new disclosure rules …
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Editors Weblog:
Australian startup Newsmodo allows freelancers to name price for their reporting  —  After more than a decade-long career, Australian broadcast journalist Rakhal Ebeli realized his responsibilities had changed.  He was no longer only chasing his own stories but also collecting those of others.
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Netflix's ‘House of Cards’ Getting DVD, Blu-ray Release  —  “House of Cards” may be upending the way viewers watch television by releasing all of its episodes in one binge-friendly gulp, but Netflix's series will have a rather conventional afterlife.  —  The glossy, 13-episode political thriller …
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
This tipping-point for paywalls does not fix newspapers' larger crisis  —  Not even the smartest metered model can make up for paltry digital ad revenues and a failure to recruit younger readers  —  To the surprise of many digital evangelizers and old-media doubters, newspaper paywalls turn out to work.
Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:
A Personalized News App At Its Simplest: No Articles, Just Data  —  INSTEAD OF TRACKING HEADLINES, NUMBEEZ TRACKS NUMBERS.  HERE'S WHY THAT MIGHT NOT BE AS ABSURD AS IT SOUNDS.  —  When Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to build a “personalized newspaper,” he's talking about photos, conversations between friends, music and news articles.
Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:
U.K. Retail Giant Tesco, BBC Worldwide Ink Content Deal For Ad-Supported Film, TV Service  —  Shows such as “Blackpool” starring David Morrissey and comedy “Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps” will be offered on Clubcard TV, the retailer's loyalty card holders' service.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Are You A Teenager Who Reads News Online?  According to the Justice Department, You May Be a Criminal  —  During his first term, President Barack Obama declared October 2009 to be “National Information Literacy Awareness Month,” emphasizing that, for students, learning to navigate the online world …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
TJ Raphael / Folio:
Louis Cona Promoted to President, CRO of Condé Nast Media Group  —  Will be responsible for leading all revenue generation at corporate level.  —  Louis Cona joined Condé Nast Media Group just five years ago, but he has quickly ascended to the top of the organization …
Bill Mickey / Folio:
FT Relaunches Web App  —  New app facilitates tighter integration with FT.com.  —  The Financial Times released a significantly redesigned version of its web app today, introducing dual static and dynamic content functionality as well as a rebuilt personalization hub called My FT.
Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
Angry Birds, fat pigs and the future of television  —  Rovio's Angry Birds games have been downloaded more than 1.7 billion times, and are played by more than 263 million active users per month.  The company is now targeting those hundreds of millions of players with a weekly animated show …
Josh Luger / Business Insider:
Inside Andrew Sullivan's Attempt To Turn The Digital Media Business Model On Its Head  —  This January, noted blogger Andrew Sullivan left his perch at The Daily Beast to embark upon a highly visible and seemingly risky enterprise.  He took his blog, The Dish, independent and decided …
 
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Music Video Company VEVO Learns Dutch, Launches In The Netherlands
Discussion: VEVO.com and Music Week
Stuart Pfeifer / Los Angeles Times:
Kathy Thomson named chief operating officer of Tribune publishing
Discussion: Associated Press and Deadline.com
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Swartz death inspires expanded effort to liberate paywalled court docs
Discussion: RECAP The Law, Techdirt and Boing Boing
Inga Saffron / The New Republic:
After the Newspaper Building  —  What must surely rank among …
Robert Darnton / New York Review of Books:
The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
New CEO's plan for About.com: same business model, more flash
Ahmed Rasheed / Reuters:
Armed men attack Baghdad newspaper offices over story on cleric
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Explores Sale of U.S. Community Papers
Discussion: Bloomberg and Deadline.com
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
The Orange County Register's new owners want to reinvent newspapers from the ground up
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's … and eMedia Vitals, Thanks:@mathewi
Bloomberg:
Dish Says $1 Billion Debt Offering May Fund Transactions
Discussion: Deadline.com and Reuters
Choire Sicha / The Awl:
How Much Do BuzzFeed, Gawker and Business Insider Staff Tweet About Work?
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
The New Yorker launches new tech and science vertical for its website
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Changes afoot in ‘New York Times’ European bureaus
Sasha Chavkin / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Koch brothers' media investment
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CNN Latino expands into New York, Phoenix, Orlando, Tampa