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4:50 PM ET, May 16, 2013

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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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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 …
Discussion: Forbes, Wonkblog and Quartz
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Wall Street Journal:
J.P. Morgan Seeks Bloomberg Data
Discussion: MoneyBeat
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  —  Nicole Carty, 23, speaks during a meeting for participants of Zuccotti Park's Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York.  —  Want to buy the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and six other daily newspapers?
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, TUAW and CBC News
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
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 …
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.
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
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Skift's approach to building a new media company: It's as much about data as it is about news  —  Despite the many miserable prognoses for the future of the media business, a few stubborn entrepreneurs still see fit to venture into content-driven companies.  Such people - including PandoDaily's …
CBS Miami:
It's Moving Day For Miami Herald Staff, Reporters  —  MIAMI (CBSMiami) - An emotional day for some long time staffers and reporters at the Miami Herald.  —  Thursday was moving day for the iconic South Florida media outlet.  —  “Won't lie.  I am crushed to be pulling up to the downtown @MiamiHerald building for the last time.
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 …
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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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
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Bloomberg:
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Gordon MacMillan / Media Week:
Ian Katz to leave Guardian for editor role at BBC Newsnight
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Warner Music Gains Approval to Buy Parlophone, a Last Piece of EMI
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Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Watergate Sleuth Carl Bernstein's E-Mail Account Is Hacked By “Guccifer”
Discussion: New York Magazine and Gawker
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads
Wall Street Journal:
At Least Two Pay-TV Operators Circling Hulu
Discussion: The CIO Report
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
With Thirst's Droplet, the vision for news on Google Glass becomes a little clearer
Discussion: Mashable, VentureBeat and AppNewser