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4:25 PM 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
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.
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
The trouble with Tumblr's journalism experiment  —  To understand why Tumblr suddenly brought an end to its original-journalism project, Storyboard, after just a year, it helps to consider what outgoing Facebook managing editor Dan Fletcher told an audience at Washington State University last month.
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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Tumblr Axes Its Editorial Team Behind Storyboard On The Way To Profitability
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.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
USPS won't end Saturday delivery  —  The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it will not end Saturday delivery, something it announced in February that it planned to do.  —  The USPS hoped curtailing delivery on those days would help it control costs.  Unlike many other government bodies …
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
Discussion: Retail Week
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
MEMO: The New York Times Replaces Its Tech Editor Two Months After He Got The Job  —  Only two months after he got the gig, the new New York Times tech editor is already the old New York Times editor.  —  On January 16, the Times replaced tech editor Damon Darlin with assistant managing editor Glenn Kramon.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Jeff Zucker is remaking CNN.  Are viewers tuning in?  —  For a few minutes the other night, the hot topic on CNN was . . . bacon.  The panel on a new prime-time show called “(Get to) The Point” came out boldly in favor of it.  —  “I had a double order this morning at breakfast …
Miriam Elder / Guardian:
Swear words ban leaves Russian media in a muddle  —  Confusion over new law that leaves media facing hefty fines if they break ban despite no list of prohibitive words being issued  —  Russian media outlets that print swear words face heavy fines under rules signed into law on Monday by the president.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Military Tightens Media Rules in Case of Private Who Leaked Files  —  FORT MEADE, Md. — The military on Wednesday tightened rules on reporters covering the court-martial proceedings against Pfc. Bradley Manning because of a bootleg recording of him speaking at a pretrial hearing in February that surfaced online.
Discussion: Guardian
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney Studios Lays Off 150 Employees  —  LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney Studios, which employs 7,000 people, on Wednesday laid off 150 workers, including a few relatively senior executives in movie publicity and the DVD department.  —  The layoffs followed a yearlong review by the company.
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.
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Roku's reach: 5M set-top boxes, 8B pieces of streaming content  —  Roku announced today that it has sold five million of its video and music streaming set top boxes, claiming that 25 percent of its users are using Roku as the primary way of viewing television.
John Paul Titlow / ReadWrite:
Why I Need Aereo TV — And You Do, Too [Review]  —  The first time you launch Aereo, you start to see why TV network executives are losing their minds.  It's not because the service feels like it's doing anything wrong.  Quite the opposite.  For the consumer, it's doing almost everything right.
Discussion: AllThingsD and The Week
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
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.
Caroline Winter / Businessweek:
Would You Tweet This Article if It Earned You Points?  —  Is it possible to coerce virality?  Won Hee Chang, a young Korean tech entrepreneur, is looking to find out by reviving her grandfather's magazine with a new model for monetizing online journalism: Readers who share content via social media …
 
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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Study: Hyperlocal demand driven by mobile devices
Discussion: Nesta
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Hollywood Studios Care About the NFL's Baltimore Ravens Logo
Discussion: Plagiarism Today and Techdirt
Jim Romenesko:
Mirror Awards finalists are announced
Lance Whitney / CNET:
Apple bans digital comic over gay sex images, its creators say
Ted Johnson / Variety:
NAB Chief: Next FCC Chair Shouldn't Have ‘Bias’ Toward Broadband
Discussion: MediaTel
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
IPC Media chief executive to retire
Discussion: Media Week
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Movie Attendance Likely To Drop In 2013, And Beyond: Report
Jo Tuckman / Guardian:
Journalists on front line of Mexico drug war: ‘Fear is terrible and well founded’
Discussion: Big News Network.com
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Martin Eiermann / The European:
“There is no news industry”  —  Clay Shirky has been at the forefront …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Magzter is a digital magazines giant that has come from nowhere (well, okay, Asia) to sign Hearst and Newsweek
Thanks:@drewkerr
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Intel Cooks Up Future of TV — a Potential Mess for Cable
Discussion: Business Insider