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9:45 AM ET, April 10, 2013

Top News:

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Aereo Has TV Networks Circling the Wagons — When Chase Carey, Rupert Murdoch's top deputy at News Corporation, told broadcasters on Monday about his contingency plan to turn the Fox network into something available only on cable, he knew policy makers would be listening, too.

Discussion: @dannysullivan, The Verge, @samgustin, CyberJournalist.net and TIME

Steven Musil / CNET:

CBS joins Fox in considering subscription-only model — CBS CEO Les Moonves applauds News Corp. exec's comments, telling the New York Times that the network was considering cutting its over-the-air signal in the New York area. — Another television network has joined the broadcaster backlash following …

Discussion: New York Times and FishbowlNY

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times: Fox's threat to go cable-only won't mean much to most viewers

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Waterstones founder to help launch new e-singles subscription site, Read Petite — Read Petite, an e-singles subscription site, will launch in the U.K. this fall. Waterstones founder Tim Waterstone is chairman. The site was founded by literary agent Peter Cox and consultant Martyn Daniels.

Discussion: Retail Week

John Harris / Guardian:

Tim Waterstone: ‘If reading is going be all digital in 50 years, so be it’ — Thirty years ago, Tim Waterstone founded one of the UK's best-known booksellers, and is still in love with the idea of bookshops. So what is he doing starting a new ebooks venture?

Discussion: The Bookseller

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Why paywalls are scary — The case for paywalls would seem to be compelling: Staunch the decline in print circulation, get paid for producing valuable local content and tap into a fresh source of sorely needed revenue at a time advertising sales continue to shrink. — All good? Not necessarily.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Alec Baldwin Said to Be in Talks to Join NBC's Late-Night Lineup — A well-known name is the latest to surface in the populated field of late night television hosts: Alec Baldwin. — The Emmy-winning actor is in the mix for a spot in NBC's late-night lineup, one executive involved in the network's program planning said.

Discussion: Mediaite, Forbes, Deadline.com, The Wrap, Inside TV, Gothamist, TVLine and Digital Spy

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Magzter is a digital magazines giant that has come from nowhere (well, okay, Asia) to sign Hearst and Newsweek — Okay, you probably know of Apple's iOS Newsstand, and you might have heard that Google is planning to launch its own newsstand for Android - but have you heard of Magzter?

Thanks:@drewkerr

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Circa's Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video) — Earlier this week, I went for a visit to the San Francisco HQ of Circa, the startup that always seems to get lumped into the mobile news reader aggregation category with others such as Pulse, Zite and Flipboard.

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Medium Adds Collaboration Tools To Its Publishing Platform, Allowing People To Add Notes To Your Posts — Today, Ev Williams' latest startup, Medium, added some tools to bring people together while they're writing. The collaboration tools are similar to what you'd find in Google Docs …

Discussion: Medium

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Adobe Adopts Apple's Streaming Format for Internet TV Platform … Adobe Systems is using Apple's streaming-media protocol as the de facto standard in its Primetime video-publishing system — putting its own technology on the back burner. — The soup-to-nuts Adobe Primetime system provides …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Home Media Magazine, ZDNet, NYT Bits, CNBC, Forbes, Broadcasting & Cable, Streaming Media and Softpedia News

Erik Wemple:

How did Mother Jones obtain McConnell tape? — Mitch McConnell's political operation today grew in the estimation of the Erik Wemple Blog, thanks to Mother Jones magazine. The lefty outlet scored a secret audio recording of a Feb. 2 strategy session by the team seeking to reelect McConnell …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Yahoo! News, CNN, The Plum Line, The Week, Los Angeles Times, First Read, Mother Jones, The Wrap and @jackshafer

Jim Romenesko:

Pamela Paul is named New York Times Book Review editor — Sam Tanenhaus is stepping down as New York Times Book Review editor to become writer at large. Children's book editor Pamela Paul replaces him. “Her versatility as an editor and writer has strengthened the Book Review and many other sections …

Discussion: The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, PublishersWeekly.com and Publishers Lunch

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students' Progress for Teachers — SAN ANTONIO — Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks. — They know when students are skipping pages …

Discussion: Melville House Books, Ars Technica, Betabeat and Gawker

Martin Eiermann / The European:

“There is no news industry” — Clay Shirky has been at the forefront of thinking about the future of journalism for the better part of a decade. He sat down with Martin Eiermann to discuss institutional inertia, censorship in the App Store, and what it means to be a journalist in 2013.

Jo Tuckman / Guardian:

Journalists on front line of Mexico drug war: ‘Fear is terrible and well founded’ — The words ‘organized crime’ and ‘cartel’ are disappearing from coverage as Peña Nieto's new government adjusts its strategy — Gun battles lasting for hours, seven decapitated bodies theatrically seated …

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Editors Weblog:

Der Spiegel editors-in-chief fired — Following a dramatic disagreement over the future direction of the news magazine, Der Spiegel editors Georg Mascolo and Mathias Müller von Blumencron have been relieved of their duties with immediate effect. — According to the German site meedia …

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Tumblr Axes Its Editorial Team Behind Storyboard On The Way To Profitability — On Tuesday, Tumblr announced that it was laying off its entire editorial team responsible for its Storyboard service. A year after the company created the team of journalists and editors to help cover it as a …

Discussion: Tumblr Staff Blog, Gawker, Poynter, One Man & His Blog, paidContent, FishbowlNY, Betabeat, Fast Company, Business Insider, @mattboggie, TechCrunch, THE BAD DEAL, CNET, @lindsayism, @adamweinstein and @antderosa

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Intel Cooks Up Future of TV — a Potential Mess for Cable — An Unconventional Campaign for an Unconventional Platform — Visualize the TV service you've always wanted: a gorgeous interface that does away with clunky (and often ad-strewn) programming grids; a simple remote that isn't a crushing array …

Discussion: Business Insider