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3:45 AM ET, May 11, 2013

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Tough times at ‘Columbia Journalism Review’ as an editor departs, others are laid off, and funding looks shaky  —  In media, there are big fish and little fish.  Which is why the appointment of Cyndi Stivers as editor-in-chief of AOL.com didn't create a lot of noise about what would happen …
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Pakistan Orders New York Times Reporter Declan Walsh to Leave  —  Pakistan's Interior Ministry has ordered the expulsion of The New York Times bureau chief in Islamabad on the eve of national elections, the newspaper said Friday.  The Times has strongly protested the move and is seeking his reinstatement.
Bill Carter / New York Times:
In Blow to NBC News, ‘Rock Center’ Is Canceled  —  Among the cancellations announced this week in anticipation of Monday's unveiling of a new prime time schedule, surely the hardest to take for NBC News is the closing notice for “Rock Center,” the ambitious newsmagazine program that hoped …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
How the New York Times can fight BuzzFeed & reinvent its future  —  If I ever run into New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson (unlikely as it might be) I will sure as hell let her know that she is absolutely right to be excited about what her paper did with Snow Fall …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Julia La Roche / Business Insider:
BLOOMBERG SPYING SCANDAL ESCALATES: Reporters Used Terminals To Spy On JPMorgan During ‘London Whale’ Disaster  —  Earlier today, Mark Decambre of the New York Post broke a bombshell story:  —  Reporters at Bloomberg News used private information from Bloomberg terminals to spy on employees at Goldman Sachs.
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William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Curbs Its Journalists' Access to Customer Data
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube's New Subscription Service: Stars Not Included  —  YouTube finally rolled out its paid subscription service yesterday, which generated a lot coverage.  —  But the YouTube folks went out of their way to downplay the launch, describing it is as the first stage of an experiment.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Why The Onion Is Awesome for Publishing Details of Its Twitter Hack  —  The Onion, the satirical news site that saw its Twitter account hijacked by a Syrian hacker group earlier this week, has just performed a pretty significant bit of public service.  —  In a detailed post …
Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Alan Abelson, Who at Barron's Was a Thorn in Wall Street's Side, Dies at 87  —  Alan Abelson, a former top editor of Barron's magazine who made waves — sometimes tsunamis — by writing a pugnacious, sagacious stock market column that denounced Wall Street hucksterism and routinely rocked share prices, died on Thursday in Manhattan.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Financial Times joins Flipboard, says it's a better deal than Apple  —  The Financial Times is the latest publisher to strike a partnership with Flipboard.  The deal is interesting because the FT recently left another third-party platform, iTunes.  —  The Financial Times is now making …
Discussion: Folio, BetaNews and Media Week
Mark Glaser / Mediashift:
Mark Luckie: Twitter Not Getting Into News Business  —  Recently, Twitter posted a job for a “head of news and journalism partnerships.”  Oh my gosh!  Was Twitter going to get into the news business and start its own newsroom with reporters and editors ferreting out what's happening as news breaks?
Discussion: paidContent and eMedia Vitals
Felix Salmon:
Mail Online: Big, but not valuable  —  Back in December 2011, the Daily Mail had 45.3 million unique visitors, according to ComScore.  By March 2013, 15 months later, that number had grown to 46.4 million, again according to ComScore.  We learn the latter figure — but not the former …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
John McCain proposes ‘a la carte’ cable bill, encourages death of sports blackout rule  —  Senator John McCain today introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, legislation that would encourage cable operators and entertainment conglomerates to unbundle channels and offer programming “a la carte.”
Discussion: Yahoo! TV, ABCNEWS and Deadline.com
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
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Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
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