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8:40 AM ET, April 25, 2013

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Brad Stone / Businessweek:
Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box  —  Amazon (AMZN) is making e-readers, tablets and will likely soon introduce a smartphone.  As it works to build all types of connected devices, that leaves a natural next step: a television set-top box.  The e-commerce giant is planning to introduce …
Anthony Kosner / The Content Strategist:
What Publishers Can Learn from Google's Patented News Article Rankings  —  Google is the publisher's angel — and its devil.  The search engine claims to connect “1 billion unique users a week to news content,” from 50,000 sources in 30 languages.  (By comparison, a large publisher …
Aurindom Mukherjee / Reuters:
Time Warner Cable revenue misses as data services disappoint  —  (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. cable operator, reported first-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates as it added fewer-than-expected subscribers for its high-speed data services.
BBC:
Leveson report: Newspapers reject press Royal Charter  —  The newspaper industry is to reject cross-party press regulation plans, and will publish proposals for self-regulation backed by Royal Charter.  —  The three main political parties agreed to a royal charter last month in response …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
BBC should cap payoffs at £150,000, says director general  —  Tony Hall says corporation cannot be ‘tone deaf’ to criticism, after his predecessor received £450,000 for 54 days' work  —  The BBC's new director general, Tony Hall, has announced he wants to cap severance payments …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
How Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Sees the Future: Netflix Wins, Apps Win and So Do HBO, ESPN and the Cable Guys  —  Fresh off a triumphant earnings report, and with investors once again clamoring for his shares, Reed Hastings has something to say.  —  A lot to say: The Netflix CEO has written …
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
NBC News looks outside the company and country for a president  —  Deborah Turness, news editor for Britain's ITV Network, is the latest executive to be mentioned as a possible successor to NBC News President Steve Capus.  —  NBC's hunt for a new president of its news division has gone beyond …
Jack Shafer:
ChartGirl boxes the news  —  If you're the nautical sort, you probably interpret the news as a flow.  If you hunt and peck on the typewriter, your news feed might resemble a pointillistic painting.  But if you love to break ideas down into their sequential components …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
A La Carte TV Will Never Be … The prospect of consumers getting the ability to choose which cable channels they want has proven to be a remarkably resilient fantasy.  —  Maybe that's because TV executives can't seem to resist giving the proposition just enough attention to make it seem possible.
Emily Bell / Guardian:
Jill Abramson and the wholly sexist narrative of the woman in power  —  The New York Times executive editor is apparently stubborn and snappy.  Why must we focus on women's character traits?  —  Happy newsrooms are all alike.  Every unhappy newsroom is unhappy in its own way.
Iain Thomson / The Register:
Court orders Visa partner to allow donations to WikiLeaks  —  Credit card blockade begins to crack  —  WikiLeaks may soon be able to accept donations again, now that the Icelandic Supreme Court has ruled that the blockade on donations imposed by local Visa partner Valitor is illegal …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
U.K. to Review Duties of Broadcast Regulator  —  LONDON — The British government will review the mandate of broadcast regulator Ofcom in an attempt to “save money and increase efficiency for both the regulator and industry.”  —  In a process announced midweek, the government said it will be looking …
 
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