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2:15 PM ET, May 9, 2013

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David Carr / New York Times:
Top Editors Abruptly Leave Village Voice  —  Will Bourne, who became editor in chief of The Village Voice in November, and Jessica Lustig, the deputy editor since January, are leaving the weekly publication.  —  They met with the staff at 11 p.m. on Thursday and said that Christine Brennan …
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.
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
In Nook, Microsoft sees a chance to compete against Amazon and Apple  —  Microsoft already has a stake in Nook Media, and now it is reportedly seeking to buy out the entire company.  In Nook, Microsoft sees a shot at competing against Amazon and Apple — in a way it might not be able to do from scratch.
Discussion: Forbes, Softpedia News and ZDNet
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 …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘New York Post’ offers buyouts; seeks 10-percent staff reduction  —  The New York Post is offering voluntary buyouts to a newsroom employees, editor-in-chief Col Allan informed the staff today in a memo obtained by Capital.  —  The paper is aiming to reduce its headcount by 10 percent through …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
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 …
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Politico to Test a Pay Wall With Some Readers of Its Site  —  Politico, the media organization that covers Washington in minute detail, said Thursday that it would start experimenting with a pay wall on its Web site.  —  “Starting this week, we are going to test a metered system for subscriptions …
Discussion: Politico
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 …
The Huffington Post:
Richard Engel Returns To Syria For First Time Since Kidnapping  —  NEW YORK — NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is back quickly and safely from his first trip to Syria since he and his team were kidnapped and held captive there last December.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Press regulation: newspapers drop right to have veto on watchdog appointments  —  Decision seen as a breakthrough move to get the Guardian, Financial Times and Independent behind plans for new regulator  —  The biggest newspaper groups in the country, including those that publish the Daily Mail and the Sun …
Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:
Google Says Authors Can't Sue Over Digital Books as Group  —  Google Inc. (GOOG) asked an appeals court to deny class status to a group of authors who claim in a $3 billion lawsuit that the company's project to digitally copy millions of books from libraries violates their copyrights.
Discussion: Plagiarism Today
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
The Loop: After 20 years on the web, veteran Apple reporter Jim Dalrymple bets on an iPad magazine  —  This isn't the first time that Jim Dalrymple has made a bet on the future of publishing.  “In 1994, I started publishing on the web, and that was one of the first big modern-day shifts that we saw,” he says.
Discussion: The Loop, GeekWire, MacRumors, om.co and TUAW, Thanks:@max8378
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. earnings report highlights need for coming corporate crack-up  —  On a call with Wall Street analysts today, News Corp. chief operating officer Chase Carey said the international media conglomerate's planned split is “our top priority.”  —  And Dave Devoe, News Corp's chief financial officer …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry press coverage ‘overwhelmingly negative’, study finds
Discussion: Media Standards Trust
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Apple wins trademark case over ‘iBooks’
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
The New Yorker Saw Record-Breaking Web Traffic Last Month
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Andrew Sullivan says it's “unlikely” The Dish will reach its $900,000 goal
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Flipboard amps up user-generated magazines with Android release and new Web-based editing tool
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ITN reports 61% rise in profits, boosted by the Olympics and US elections
Kaila Stein / American Journalism Review:
A Digital Guy at the Helm
 Earlier Picks: 
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Social + mobile = the “dynamite” combo ITV News needed to build reputation and audience
Discussion: bbc.co.uk and National Updates
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Dallas Morning News' paywall is getting a makeover to try to capture digital-only readers
Rachele Kanigel / Mediashift:
Journalism Schools Become Incubators for Media Startups, Entrepreneurs
Curtis Brainard / Columbia Journalism Review:
A new ‘golden era’?  —  Nautilus is the latest in a proliferation of science-news sites
Discussion: bookforum.com
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Viacom says Cablevision bundling lawsuit should be tossed
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Jim Romenesko:
Philadelphia Inquirer returns to newsstands on Saturdays