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8:15 PM ET, May 16, 2013

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Nitasha Tiku / Gawker:
The Hidden Dossiers Bloomberg Reporters Keep on Powerful Clients  —  If you are an influential user of a Bloomberg terminal—the $24,000-per-year glorified computers that the company sells to Wall Street trading firms, politicians, and banks—there's a chance the company's news division …
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Wall Street Journal:
J.P. Morgan Seeks Bloomberg Data
Discussion: MoneyBeat
Washington Post:
Some question whether AP leak on al-Qaeda plot put U.S. at risk  —  For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials.  Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked …
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Tribune CEO Says Furor Over Koch Newspaper Sale Is Premature  —  Tribune Co. (TRBAA) Chief Executive Officer Peter Liguori, responding to a protest over a possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to Koch Industries Inc., said speculation over potential buyers of the company's papers is “premature.”
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Campaign to Buy Los Angeles Times Hopes to Crowdfund $660 Million
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Zinio, First Mover In Digital Magazines, Moves To The Netflix Model  —  The so-called first mover advantage is really only an advantage if you don't get too far out ahead of your customer.  Founded in 2001, the digital magazines company Zinio was arguably a good eight years ahead of its time.
Discussion: Folio
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Your Next Horror Movie Franchise Isn't a Movie - It's an App  —  Neal Edelstein, producer of “The Ring” and “Mulholland Drive,” has made what may be a game-changing ghost story  —  The iPad 2 changed Neal Edelstein's life.  Edelstein had been working as a producer for more than a decade …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Producer of The Ring and Mulholland Drive releases new horror movie as an iOS app
Discussion: Bloomberg, CBC News and TUAW
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Post Co. shuts Maryland papers  —  The Washington Post Co. announced Wednesday it would stop publishing the Frederick County, Md., editions of its Gazette newspapers.  Post-Newsweek Media CEO Karen Acton said the move “became necessary due to changes in the market conditions in Frederick …
CBS Miami:
It's Moving Day For Miami Herald Staff, Reporters  —  MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Moving trucks were parked along the walk in front of One Herald Plaza Thursday, as The Miami Herald passed its last day in the building it has known as home for half a decade.  It was moving day.
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Nicholas Jackson Plans to Launch a ‘Smarter Version of MediaBistro’  —  Last week, Pacific Standard's digital director Nick Jackson announced on Facebook and Twitter that he was starting a new website that would “be a place for inside-baseball coverage of the media industry and serve as a home …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror says revenue down 10 per cent year on year but rate of decline slowing  —  Trinity Mirror's revenue for the first four months of the year fell by 10 per cent compared to the same period in 2013.  —  But in a statement to the stock market, the group revealed that the rate of decline is slowing.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror: ‘too soon’ to know outcome of phone-hacking inquiry
Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk and Media Week
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
NewsRight, ambitious attempt at licensing newspaper content, quietly folds  —  Analyst Ken Doctor reports at Nieman Labs that NewsRight, an industry-owned agency that has tried to license content to aggregators, has gone out of business.  —  NewsRight's own news release describes the dissolution …
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Yahoo partners with Twitter to bring tweets directly into its US newsfeed on the desktop and mobile Web  —  Yahoo on Thursday announced a new partnership with Twitter that will see tweets brought directly into the company's homepage newsfeed.  The new integration will be rolling out …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
USA Network's Dividing Line With Twitter  —  Several television companies have announced deals with Twitter Inc. in recent weeks, looking to take advantage of the popularity of tweeting while watching shows.  But not all TV companies believe tying up with the social-media site is such a great idea.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘New York Post’ buyouts focus on ‘loyal soldiers ... highest paid’  —  The New York Post stands to lose a sizable chunk of its longstanding institutional memory as newsroom employees who were offered buyouts last week decide whether or not to jump ship with exit packages.
James O'Brien / Forbes:
How A Journalist Created His Own Beat And Tapped Into A New Sports Trend  —  Justin Rice worked for years as a journalist in and around Boston, struggling to get noticed by the Sports section.  In 2009, his success came from an unlikely place: a 17-year-old former tomboy who made team captain within …
 
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Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Watergate Sleuth Carl Bernstein's E-Mail Account Is Hacked By “Guccifer”
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources say the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% YoY to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.

 
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