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8:15 AM ET, May 9, 2013

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Beats Profit Estimates on Higher Licensing Revenue  —  News Corp. (NWSA), the Rupert Murdoch-led media company that's set to split in two, beat fiscal third-quarter profit estimates on higher licensing fees for television shows such as “American Idol” and “New Girl.”
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:   News Corp. earnings report highlights need for coming corporate crack-up
TechCrunch:
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion  —  Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Open interviews and gatekeepers: The media can either open up or sources can go direct  —  Startup founder Chad Whitacre caused a fuss recently when he suggested that a reporter do an “open interview” that would available to everyone — but why is that approach seen as such a threat by the some media outlets?
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Dallas Morning News' paywall is getting a makeover to try to capture digital-only readers  —  If 2012 was the Year of the Paywall for American newspapers, 2013 is turning into the Year of Paywall Tinkering.  —  Last month, it was The New York Times that announced it planned to diversify …
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
McCain is prepping legislation to overhaul pay-TV business  —  Sen. John McCain wants to overhaul the TV industry.  —  The maverick wants to cook the TV industry's golden goose.  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is preparing to introduce legislation perhaps as early as Thursday …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ITN reports 61% rise in profits, boosted by the Olympics and US elections  —  News provider to ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 rewards chief executive John Hardie with a £1.2m pay package  —  Capitol gain ... The US presidential elections helped ITN towards a 61% rise in profits.
Curtis Brainard / Columbia Journalism Review:
A new ‘golden era’?  —  Nautilus is the latest in a proliferation of science-news sites  —  Nautilus, a new science magazine whose first issue appeared online April 29, has New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye, one of the beat's veterans, feeling a bit a nostalgic.  In a review on Monday, he wrote:
Discussion: bookforum.com
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Hearst Hires Digital Chief To Oversee Web Brands  —  Hearst Magazines, the publisher of such venerable titles as Esquire and Cosmopolitan, said on Wednesday that it was creating a new position, president of digital media.  —  The job will go to Troy Young, 45, who will be responsible for content …
New York Times:
A Bid to Thwart Los Angeles Times Sale to Kochs  —  LOS ANGELES — An effort by two conservative billionaires to take over The Los Angeles Times and seven other newspapers is setting off a firestorm of opposition here.  Public employee unions, the leaders of the State Legislature …
Discussion: LA Observed and Chicago Reader
Kaila Stein / American Journalism Review:
A Digital Guy at the Helm  —  Trif Alatzas, the new executive editor of the Baltimore Sun, is excited about the opportunities for journalism in a transformative era for newspapers.  —  Kaila Stein (kstein1010@gmail.com) is a student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Social + mobile = the “dynamite” combo ITV News needed to build reputation and audience  —  Since ITV News launched its atomized, live, streaming redesign a little over a year ago, they've adhered fairly resolutely to a single maxim: “We'll tell you what we know, when we know it.”
Discussion: bbc.co.uk and National Updates
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
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.
Tom Bill / Reuters:
Murdoch's News International in talks to occupy Shard neighbor  —  (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News International is in talks to occupy the whole of an empty office block at the foot of London's Shard, Western Europe's tallest skyscraper, two sources told Reuters.
 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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Guardian:
Spencer Ackerman joins the Guardian as National Security Editor
Discussion: @attackerman
Jim Romenesko:
Philadelphia Inquirer returns to newsstands on Saturdays
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Confessions of a Newspaper Ad Exec
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Nielsen to include Internet viewers in its definition of TV homes
Discussion: TVWeek.com
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
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Discussion: VentureBeat, Beet.TV and VentureBeat
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Get your cat on: BuzzFeed creates new section where readers can publish
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Nieman Journalism Lab
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Government acts on health care costs, in part because of Time story
Discussion: Forbes, TIME and The Huffington Post