Mediagazer: Washington Post Hires NBC-MSNBC Veteran For Video Programming (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

4:20 PM ET, April 12, 2013

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can't Use It — Want to play with Twitter's new music app? You can get it today — if you're really famous. — If not, you're going to have to wait a week. — Here's the deal: As we wrote yesterday, Twitter is launching its new music discovery app for iOS devices …

Discussion: CNET, AppNewser, Christian Science Monitor, App Advice, The Wrap, WebProNews, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Mashable

AllThingsD:
Twitter's New Music App Launches Friday

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

Discussion: CNET and BBC

Emily Heffter / The Seattle Times:

Sinclair known for conservative political tilt — Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is buying Seattle-based Fisher Communications, has a history of using its television stations to support its political views. — Sinclair Broadcast Group executives said they will bring resources and stability …

Discussion: Politico and Variety

C.R. Roberts / The News Tribune:
Northwest TV, radio group Fisher Communications to sell to Sinclair

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Nicholas Diakopoulos / Poynter:

What data & algorithms teach us about the language news orgs use — How do we discuss immigration? Sounds like a job for the ‘lingo scope!’ — Last week the Associated Press decided to strike the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its style guide. Related idioms such as “illegal alien …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Jim Romenesko:

McClatchy spends $164,643 to move Kansas City Star publisher to Sacramento — “With his move to the Sacramento metropolitan area from Kansas City to take the position of Vice President, Operations, the Company provided Mr. Zieman with relocation benefits. For 2012, these benefits included …

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

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Hires NBC-MSNBC Veteran For Video Programming — The Washington Post has been staffing up the past few months in preparation for the summer launch of an online politics channel, hiring producers, a technical director, studio technician and even poaching a senior video producer …

Publishers Weekly:

Bezos on Competitors, Royalties, Kindles — Amazon may act as though it doesn't hear criticism from outside of the company but, according to company founder and chairman Jeff Bezos, this is not the case. In a letter to shareholders accompanying Amazon's annual report, Bezos addressed the company's view towards its competition.

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Jim Romenesko:

Nitasha Tiku leaves New York Observer for Gawker — Nitasha Tiku, editor of New York Observer's BetaBeat tech section, is John Cook's first hire as Gawker Media editor. (He was promoted in January.) Tiku joined the Observer in June 2011, after working at New York and Inc. magazines.

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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.

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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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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: PandoDaily and Politico

Gayle Fee / Boston Herald:

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