Mediagazer: Pink slips for a dozen-plus ‘Daily News’ staffers; vets Joanna Molloy and Albor Ruiz among them (Joe Pompeo/Capital New York)

3:20 PM ET, May 8, 2013

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Pink slips for a dozen-plus ‘Daily News’ staffers; vets Joanna Molloy and Albor Ruiz among them — The Daily News is now undergoing what employees of the tabloid have been fearing for weeks: Multiple insiders tell Capital that layoffs have hit the newsroom today.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

NowThisNews Raises a New Round to Help Bring Pregnant Panda Videos to Your Phone — NowThisNews, the startup that's trying to create a video news service for the iPhone generation, has raised another $4.8 million. — In addition to earlier investors, who include Lerer Ventures …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL's Earnings Are Light, but Revenue and Ad Sales Are on Track — This looks like a pretty good performance from AOL: Tim Armstrong's Internet company came in a couple pennies light on earnings in its Q1, but hit its revenue marks. — As important: Its underlying numbers look pretty good.

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people …

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Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google, authors wrangle in court again over digital books — The authors are asking for $3 billion in damages related to Google's digital books project, while Google is asking for class action status to be revoked. — Google and the Authors Guild are wrangling in court again …

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Jim Romenesko:

Philadelphia Inquirer returns to newsstands on Saturdays — Philadelphia Inquirer staffers got this memo on Wednesday afternoon. The person who passed in on writes: “Combine this with the TP [Times-Picayune] news [about news street tabloids] and one would surmise print's the new news delivery system these days!

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Confessions of a Newspaper Ad Exec — The woes of the newspaper world in digital media are well known: a decimated subscription base, lower ad revenue and declining relevance. — Newspapers are continuing the long process of change, but the road is bumpy.

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Get your cat on: BuzzFeed creates new section where readers can publish — Users will now get their own vertical on BuzzFeed, where they can submit according to their “Cat Power.” — Viral site BuzzFeed launched a new content vertical on Wednesday called “Community” that consists entirely of user-submitted content.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Advocate owner says he ‘tried to buy’ Times-Picayune — In a May 2 interview, WWL-TV anchor Melanie Hebert passed on a viewer question to John Georges, the new owner of the Baton Rouge, La.-based Advocate: Would he be interested in buying the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, with which his paper is engaged in a growing newspaper war?

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Baton Rouge news … and New Orleans Times-Picayune

Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:

Piers Morgan to Exec Produce Tabloid Journalism Drama for Starz — The 1970s entry “Fleet Street” hails from Lionsgate TV and Richard Branson's Virgin Produced. — Starz is turning its lens on tabloid journalism. — The cable network home to DaVinci's Demons and the upcoming Black Sails …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Most YouTube Subscription Videos Will Have Ads — Love YouTube, but hate the ads? — Then you're not going to be any happier with most of the subscription videos the site is going to start selling. They're going to have ads, too, say people familiar with YouTube's long-awaited plans.

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