Mediagazer: Murdoch to Get $28.3 Million Pay When News Corp. Splits (Tom Lavell/Bloomberg)

12:50 PM ET, April 26, 2013

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Why the New York Times has set up a newsroom analytics team — The team was set up by Aron Pilhofer, who already runs the interactive news team, social media team and communities team, to introduce editorial-focused analysis of data — Copyright: By DaveBleasdale on Flickr. Some Rights Reserved.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
At the ‘Times,’ the future of blogs is uncertain: Some shuttered, some dormant, all under review

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
The New York Times Releases Its Headline-Reading Google Glass App

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David Folkenflik / NPR:

Koch Brothers Could Buy Tribune Papers To Add Media Division … David and Charles Koch control what is believed to be the nation's largest privately held company, Koch Industries. They share a strong libertarian bent against high taxes and government regulation.

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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:

Why Big Cities Make Media Liberal—and Why the Koch Brothers Can't Do Anything About It — On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Koch brothers — yes, those Koch brothers, of dumping mad cash into elections fame — are considering buying the Tribune network of newspapers in a bid …

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

White House Correspondents' Association dinner isn't costly, but the parties are — Figure on paying big time for a semi-glamorous locale; an embassy will do (but only one for a major country). Then, add in food and booze — about $100 a head. Plus entertainment, security, cleanup, insurance.

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Reuters:

Amazon's success formula: move bits instead of boxes — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc appears to have figured out the secret to being more profitable: sell less physical stuff. — The company reported slowing revenue growth and offered a disappointing outlook for this quarter on Thursday …

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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Kindle TV: why does Amazon need a set-top box?

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Amazon beats Wall Street estimates with $0.18 EPS, sales at $16.07B in Q1 2013, a 22% growth YoY

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Tom Lavell / Bloomberg:

Murdoch to Get $28.3 Million Pay When News Corp. Splits — Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire founder of News Corp., will receive $28.3 million in combined compensation next year from the two businesses created by the breakup of his media empire. — Murdoch's base pay in 2014 will amount to $8.1 million …

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Marco Arment / Marco.org:

The next generation of Instapaper — When I launched Instapaper in 2008, it was a very basic web app. It quickly expanded to define the pillars of the read-later market: a one-click “read later” bookmarklet, a web sync service, an adjustable text view optimized for reading, and an iPhone app with offline saving.

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Financial Times faces weak advertising market, says parent company — Pearson predicts difficult first quarter for newspaper, with total group revenues down 1% year on year to £1.2bn — Pearson has said that the Financial Times faced a “weak” advertising market in the first quarter of this year …

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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:

New Law Makes Suing for Libel Harder in England — LONDON — London's reputation as the libel capital of the world, “a town called sue,” is poised to end. — A new law enacted Thursday strengthens the position of people sued for libel here and puts an end to most cases of so-called libel tourism …

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

YouTube Drops Price for Upfront Packages to Lure TV Dollars — Lessons From Last Year: Be More Flexible — YouTube is taking a novel approach to winning TV ad dollars during this year's Upfront season: lowering prices. — Google's video platform — the world's biggest …

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

New York Times paywall growth slows — But it remains to be seen whether that's a one-quarter blip or the new normal — The torrid growth in digital-only subscribers to The New York Times slowed sharply in the first quarter. Worse, advertising fell so sharply that the paper's overall revenue declined slightly.

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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Time Warner Cable to Squeeze More Profit From Fewer Users — Time Warner Cable Inc. customers should prepare to pay more for the services they want. — The cable company is scaling back its discounts after years of offering low introductory rates on all-encompassing packages of Internet, television and phone service.

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