Mediagazer: The Return of The Serial Novel (Alexandra Alter/Wall Street Journal)

11:40 AM ET, April 12, 2013

Top News:

Twitter's New Music App Launches Friday — Next up on the jukebox — Twitter Music. — The microblogging service plans to launch its new standalone music application on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter. — (Update 7:59 pm PT: Of note — another source claims …

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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio service imminent — Apple is expected to sign the largest record label perhaps as soon as next week, sources say. Warner Music is right behind. — Apple is expected to sign its first internet radio licensing agreement …

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Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Twitter Acquires We Are Hunted, Should Open New Marketing Doors For Artists

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BBC:

Statement regarding Radio 1's Chart Show, 14 April 2013 — The BBC has issued the following statement regarding the Radio 1 Chart Show (due to air at 4pm on 14 April 2013) and the decision to play a clip of the song ‘Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead’. “The BBC finds this campaign distasteful …

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Associated Press:
BBC faces Thatcher dilemma as opponents push ‘Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead’ to top of charts

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flipboard Adds 3 Million Users Since Launch Of Personalized Magazines, Over 500,000 Magazines Created To Date — Mobile magazine Flipboard revealed today that over half a million personalized magazines have been created on its platform since the launch of the new feature just two weeks prior.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, CyberJournalist.net, MediaShift, VentureBeat and TeleRead

Ilaina Jonas / Reuters:

Time Warner hires Eastdil to market its New York headquarters — (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc said on Thursday that it has hired Eastdil Secured LLC's Doug Harmon to market its headquarters to determine how much the building would fetch should the company decide to sell it.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Gayle Fee / Boston Herald:

Reading between lines on Boston Globe sale — By: — The hottest guessing game in town continues to be: Who will be the next owner of the Boston Globe? — We don't know, but we can tell you the latest scuttlebutt. So here you go: — Car czar Ernie Boch Jr., who announced in February …

Eric Benson / New York Magazine:

New Journalism — SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein on winning the court press wars. — When you started SCOTUSblog in 2002, did you see an opening for more comprehensive Supreme Court coverage? — No, it had nothing to do with that. I had decided that I was going to be a Supreme Court litigator …

Discussion: Politico

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Yep, LinkedIn Acquires Newsreader Startup Pulse for $90 Million — LinkedIn announced on Thursday it has acquired mobile news aggregation startup Pulse, as Kara Swisher reported last month that it would, signaling another step by the massive professional network toward becoming an online content powerhouse.

Bloomberg:

Time Warner Said to Be Frontrunner in Bid for Calik's ATV — Time Warner Inc. (TWX), the owner of HBO and Warner Bros. film studio, is in talks to buy Turkey's ATV television network from Calik Holdings AS, three people with knowledge of the situation said.

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Alexandra Alter / Wall Street Journal:

The Return of The Serial Novel — Serialized fiction, an all-but-lost art form that was practiced by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad, is rebounding in the digital era. The growing use of tablets, smartphones and e-ink devices has created a vibrant …

Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:

Egypt's president to host Twitter sessions to connect with his people — Mohamed Morsi will host regular Q&A sessions in move designed to ease concerns after crackdown on journalists — Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi, has announced plans to respond to citizens' concerns every night on Twitter …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Stream and The Verge

Taylor Miller Thomas / Poynter:

Changes to Hawaii's shield law 'ignorant of what's going on in the media world' — A proposed Hawaii law would limit the use of anonymous sources and would removes protections on other reporting done by journalists. According to some Hawaii journalists, the law, now passed by the state's House …

Discussion: Honolulu Weekly

Josh Stearns / Groundswell:

New York City to Pay $75,000 to Occupy Livestream Collective — When the New York Police Department raided the Occupy encampment in Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011 they arrested more than 10 journalists and threatened or harassed many others. However, they also destroyed an enormous amount …

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