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10:20 AM ET, April 10, 2013

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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.
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Steven Musil / CNET:
CBS joins Fox in considering subscription-only model
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
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
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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
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.
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 …
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 …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC staff have £750,000 worth of gadgets lost or stolen in three years  —  Laptops, tablet computers and mobile phones among the 785 electrical items lost by corporation staff since 2010  —  BBC staff have lost 785 laptops, tablet computers and mobile phones in the past three years, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
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 …
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 …
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 …
 
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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Intel Cooks Up Future of TV — a Potential Mess for Cable
Discussion: Business Insider
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Sony Re-Ups Movie, Music Boss Michael Lynton
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Diana Lind / Feministe:
David Carr Needs to Lean In
Discussion: BuzzFeed and NewsLab
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Kira Witkin / Editors Weblog:
Author-specific paywalls let publications cash in on journalists' personal brands
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
This Simple App Could Put E-Books On Millions Of Phones In The Third World
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
McCandlish Phillips, Longtime Times Reporter With Flair, Dies at 85
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
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Discussion: CyberJournalist.net and Betabeat