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4:20 AM ET, June 20, 2013

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James Poniewozik / TIME:
Michael Hastings and Who Journalists Really Work For  —  I'm not the person to write a personal appreciation of Michael Hastings, the 33-year-old investigative journalist who died in a car crash in Los Angeles yesterday.  I never met him; I don't know if he was a good guy, or a bad guy, or both in what ratio.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Sree Sreenivasan to leave chief digital officer post at Columbia University  —  Sree Sreenivasan, the journalism professor and social-media evangelist, is leaving his full-time job at Columbia University, where he's taught for two decades, sources tell Capital.
Robert Picard / Guardian:
Digital news is finally starting to pay  —  Workable revenue models are emerging that make the future look brighter for publishers, a new report has found  —  Newspaper publishers beleaguered by digital developments for the past decade are starting to believe that business models to support digital journalism have emerged.
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Leo Kelion / BBC:
Online news is becoming easier to sell, suggests study  —  Consumers are becoming more willing to pay for online news, although most still choose not to, a study suggests.  The percentage of UK-based web users who read paid-for content had more than doubled to 9% during the past 10 months, it said.
Discussion: Newsworks
Linda Kinstler / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Times of London, navigating audience with a strict paywall, retires its opinion Tumblr  —  When you bet on a strict, un-leaky paywall as The Times of London has, you're forced to get creative about how to put your work in front of new audiences — particularly if you're trying to influence their opinions.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Wired Editor Michael Copeland Joins Andreessen Horowitz To Lead New ‘Content Strategy’  —  Wired Senior Editor Michael Copeland is joining venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.  We've confirmed with the VC firm that Copeland will be leading Andreessen's new ‘content strategy.’
Discussion: @mvc
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Spinoff Pegs Value of Publishing at $9.1 Billion (2)  —  News Corp. (NWSA)'s publishing spinoff began trading today at a market value of about $9.1 billion, one-seventh the size of the entertainment side of the media empire, underscoring the business's growth challenges.
Discussion: Reuters
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Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
With Dish (mostly) out of the way, the path is clear for Sprint-SoftBank deal  —  Dish Network is shelving its plans to acquire Sprint, letting the deadline to counter SoftBank's $21.6 billion buyout bid pass on Tuesday.  That pretty much clears the way for the Sprint-SoftBank deal to close …
Discussion: Forbes and The Next Web
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Sen. Cantwell Criticizes Gannett/Belo Deal  —  Calls it effort to skirt local media ownership rules  —  Media consolidation critic Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) Tuesday criticized Gannett over its proposal to buy Belo stations, including three in Washington state, to create a so-called Super Group.
Discussion: Gannett Blog
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams To Become ABC Nightline Anchor And Expands Role At Good Morning America  —  We've just learned that “The Bossman,” a.k.a., Mediaite's founder and publisher Dan Abrams is expanding his role with ABC News, becoming an anchor of Nightline and gaining the title of Chief Legal Affairs Anchor for ABC News.
Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:
McCain, Blumenthal want FCC to move ball forward on sports blackout rule  —  Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday pressed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move the ball forward on potentially changing its sports blackout rule.
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Older TV viewers driving audience growth, but it's a mixed blessing  —  Call it the “Matlock” effect: TV viewing among older Americans is on the rise.  (Los Angeles Times)  —  By 2015, almost half of all television viewing will be done by folks over the age of 50, says media analyst Todd Juenger …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Cleveland Plain Dealer staffers facing layoffs  —  The Cleveland Plain Dealer plans to lay off staffers in the marketing, finance, information technology, pre-press and building service departments, according to the Save the Plain Dealer Campaign's Facebook page.
Discussion: Facebook and WKYC-TV
Thomas Beller / Page-Turner:
The Ongoing Story: Twitter and Writing  —  I was in the Time magazine archives recently, doing research for my biography of J. D. Salinger, when I pulled open a drawer and found a small box containing a bunch of discarded typewriter heads for the I.B.M. Selectric typewriter—the cutting-edge writing technology of my youth.
Discussion: @robinsloan, @robinsloan and @qhardy
Dominic Ponsford / pressgazette.co.uk:
Guardian spying revelations were in breach of DA-Notice guidance, but this doesn't explain lack of follow-up by other media  —  Detailed revelations about how British security services spied on foreign powers when the UK hosted a G20 summit in 2009 were splashed across the first five pages of The Guardian on Monday.
Discussion: Guardian
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Ex-LAT editor Sallie Hofmeister signs on with Sitrick  —  Sallie Hofmeister is the latest former entertainment editor and reporter at the Los Angeles Times to try her hand at crisis PR with Sitrick And Company.  She was at the LAT for 17 years, first as a business reporter covering media and Hollywood.
Discussion: Deadline.com and The Wrap
Annie Machon / Using Our Intelligence:
Edward Snowden — the Globalisation of Whistleblowing  —  I have held back from writing about the Edward Snowden NSA whistleblowing case for the last week — partly because I was immersed in the resulting media interviews and talks, and partly because I wanted to watch how the story developed, both politically and in the old media.
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
BT chief steps down to take UK government role as Sky Sports battle intensifies  —  Ian Livingstone, the chief executive of BT is stepping down from his role at the head of the company to take up the position of Minister of State for Trade and Investment in the UK.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
U.K. Regulator Launches Review of BT Competition Complaint Against BSkyB
Discussion: Guardian and Reuters
 
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Andrew Albanese / PublishersWeekly.com:
For Apple, Price-Fixing Trial Closes With a Win
Discussion: Fortune
Wall Street Journal:
Web Companies Pay for Internet Fast Lane
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
AP CEO Says Government Sources Won't Talk After Justice Department Probe
Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
YouTube and Spotify ripping: why won't they act?
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Time Warner Cable Sued Over Spending on Lakers, Dodgers Rights
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William Turvill / PressGazette:
BBC fails in bid to have critical clip removed from YouTube following copyright complaint
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK newspapers' print ad revenue ‘to shrink by £400m by the end of 2014’
Discussion: HoldTheFrontPage
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Advance Publications name game
Telegraph:
BBC spent £28m of licence-fee payers' money gagging 500 staff
Discussion: Guardian and London News
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
How PBS Won at Digital