Mediagazer: The Boston Bombing: How journalists used Twitter to tell the story (Simon Rogers/Twitter Blog)

2:10 PM ET, July 10, 2013

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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Co. to spin off newspapers — Chicago Tribune and other papers to become part of Tribune Publishing Co., separate from WGN radio and TV … One week after boosting its broadcasting holdings with the announcement of a deal to purchase 19 television stations, Tribune Co …

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Sam Thielman / Adweek:

Zucker's Changes at CNN Are Already Bearing Fruit — The good ship CNN is riding a little higher on the waves. After months of plummeting ratings and a high-profile game of C-suite musical chairs, the original cable news network is catching up to its competitors in the core demo and showing significant year-over-year gains.

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Laura Bennett / New Republic:

CNN Is Bad at Tabloid Journalism — Defense testimony for the Zimmerman trial, perhaps concluding Wednesday, has so far been something of a sideshow. A trainer from Zimmerman's gym swaggered to the stand on Monday, described Zimmerman as “soft-bodied,” disdainfully rated his fitness a 0.5 out of 10 …

Discussion: Gawker, Los Angeles Times and Piers Morgan

Reuters:

Judge says Apple conspired to raise prices on e-books — In a decision that could reshape how electronic books are sold on the Internet, a federal judge ruled that Apple Inc conspired to raise the retail prices of e-books, and ordered a trial on damages. The decision by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote …

Simon Rogers / Twitter Blog:

The Boston Bombing: How journalists used Twitter to tell the story — Nearly three months ago, two bombs shook the Boston marathon, and the world. As news of the blasts and the subsequent manhunt spread, Twitter became a crucial part of the journalist's toolkit.

Discussion: Poynter, @tminsberg, @adriennelb and @digiphile

Ian Simpson / Reuters:

Pentagon saw WikiLeaks as journalistic site: trial witness — (Reuters) - The U.S. military viewed anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks as a news gathering operation before Private First Class Bradley Manning leaked a trove of classified files to it, a Harvard professor testified at Manning's court-martial on Wednesday.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Conservative Voice Goes From ‘View’ to Fox News — Fox News announced a sudden shake-up of its morning show “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday night, hiring Elisabeth Hasselbeck from ABC's “The View” to replace Gretchen Carlson, who has been a co-host of the morning show for seven years.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Justine Rosenthal, long-time deputy of Tina Brown, is out at ‘Newsweek’ — Another high-level NewsBeast editor is headed for the exit. — Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of the now all-digital Newsweek and its sister website, The Daily Beast, announced today that one of her main deputies, Justine Rosenthal, is leaving the company.

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

BBC Top Executives Grilled, Criticized About Severance Payments — Former BBC director general Mark Thompson, now CEO of the New York Times Co., was also criticized from afar in a hearing in the U.K. parliament. — LONDON — Top executives of the BBC and its governing body, the BBC Trust …

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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Magazine Ad Pages Continue to Decline, Despite Increase in Digital — MPA — The Association of Magazine Media has released its consumer magazine ad page data for the second quarter of 2013, and again, print advertising continues to decline. Advertising for the quarter fell 4.5 percent versus …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News

Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

Vanity Fair launches video channel — Vanity Fair's digital video channel initially will feature four original series, some inspired by popular features in the magazine and others offered in the same spirit and tone of the publication. Above, Kate Upton attends the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in West Hollywood.

Discussion: Adweek, Variety, FishbowlNY and Vanity Fair

Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:

CEO Re-Imagines NPR as a Pandora of News — Public-Radio Network Is Working on Letting Listeners Customize a Playlist Available via Cloud — NPR has had a rough few years, and despite new leadership, the turbulence hasn't entirely subsided. — Gary E. Knell took the helm in 2011 …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Katy Bachman / Adweek:

If Publishers Fail to Self-Regulate Native Ads, FTC May Step In — BuzzFeed is famous for it, Facebook and Twitter embraced it, and The Atlantic got blasted for it. Native advertising may be all the rage, but if brands and publishers aren't careful, it could trigger some regulatory repercussions, analysts say.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

Reuters feeds the robots two-second scoops — The New York AG probes the selling of early access to market-moving information — The University of Michigan's market-moving reports on consumer confidence used to only available via a $4,750 annual subscription paid to the university.

Discussion: CNBC

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Maxim Magazine Said to Fetch Bids of About $20 Million — Maxim magazine, the bawdy men's title that went up for sale in March, is seeing some bids of about $20 million, less than a 10th of the price its owners paid six years ago, according to people familiar with the situation.

Discussion: @tylerborchers, @jedschneiderman, @edmundlee and @mathewi

Lydia DePillis / Washington Post:

Barnes & Noble's troubles don't show why bookstores are doomed. They show how they'll survive. — On Monday, Barnes and Noble announced that the chain's CEO, William Lynch, was stepping down. — It's never a good sign for a company when its CEO resigns, leaving it provisionally leaderless.

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Pandora's PR problem: how the web radio titan became music's big villain — The company has made few friends with its pitch for higher royalties — When Tim Westergren says something about music, it's easy to believe him. He not only possesses rock-star good looks and a background as a pianist …