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11:45 AM ET, January 16, 2014

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
The Independent seeks buyer  —  The Independent is up for sale.  The paper's founder, and current chairman of its publishing company, Andreas Whittam Smith, has been authorised to seek out a buyer.  —  The owners, Alexander Lebedev and his son, Evgeny, have been indicating …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
The Independent's future in jeopardy as sales fall to alarming level  —  It is hard to imagine anyone buying The Independent and therefore places the paper's future existence in jeopardy.  The fact that its owner has failed to find a buyer after months of seeking one suggest that its newsprint days are coming to an end.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Independent owners decline to comment on report that title is again up for sale  —  The publishers of The Independent declined to comment this morning on a report that the title is again up for sale - nearly four years after it was sold by Independent News and Media to Alexander Lebedev.
Chris Elliott / Guardian:
Open door: Why an article on Lisa Bonchek Adams was removed from the Guardian site  —  I don't think it is wrong to frame a question about how those with incurable illnesses use social media, but the Guardian was wrong in the way it went about it  —  Lisa Bonchek Adams is a woman …
Josh Stearns / Free Press Blog:
Net Neutrality and the Future of Journalism  —  Tuesday's court decision, which struck down the FCC's Open Internet Order and threatened the future of Net Neutrality, has huge implications for the future of journalism and press freedom.  —  According to the Pew Research Center …
Discussion: @jcstearns, Gigaom and Consumerist
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Tim Wu / The New Yorker Blog:
FCC's Wheeler can preserve net neutrality by taking back its authority over broadband
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
He Was Fired: Here's Marissa Mayer's De Castro Buh-Bye Memo to Yahoo Staff  —  Here it is, the internal memo to Yahoo staff about the sudden — though it was not sudden, by any means — leave-taking today of its COO, Henrique De Castro, courtesy of one of my 10,563 sources left at Yahoo!
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro, Mayer's No. 2, to depart after failing to move lagging ad business
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Netflix ‘original’ documentary lands Oscar nomination  —  “The Square,” a Netflix-backed film about the 2011 Egyptian revolution, secured an Oscar nomination for documentary feature on Thursday, fulfilling the Academy Awards buzz it drummed up at film festivals.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Spotify introduces unlimited free music on the web just days before Beats Music launch  —  The nice thing about raising $250 million is that it lets you offer your customers services that few competitors can match.  Spotify, which is riding high after completing a massive fundraising round in November …
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Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
Will Beats Music trump Spotify with its artist charm offensive?
Discussion: Pocket-lint
Susan Currie Sivek / Mediashift:
Digital Technology Remodels Women's Magazines  —  Women's magazines are full of fashion, beauty and relationship tips.  However, studying them has also taught one researcher a lot about their future, and about the future of the magazine industry as a whole.
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Top editors at Washington Post, Politico talk after Wemple scrutinizes Mike Allen's Playbook  —  Washington Post and Politico Talk About a Rift  —  Top editors at The Washington Post and Politico tried on Wednesday to mend a rift between the two news organizations.
Reporters Without Borders:
Iraq bans local printing and distribution of Saudi daily  —  Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi government's decision to ban the printing and distribution in Iraq of Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily newspaper.  —  On 14 January, Iraqi security forces raided …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Pew Internet:
E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps  —  The proportion of Americans who read e-books is growing, but few have completely replaced print books for electronic versions.  —  The percentage of adults who read an e-book in the past year has risen to 28%, up from 23% at the end of 2012.
Ed Christman / Billboard:
FCC Shelves Pandora's Bid For South Dakota Radio Station … Questions?  Comments?  Let us know: @billboardbiz
BBC:
Egypt charges three al-Jazeera English journalists  —  The three journalists detained in Egypt last month while working for al-Jazeera English have been charged.  State prosecutors accused them of using unlicensed equipment, broadcasting false news to disturb public order, and possessing fake footage.
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Tony Hall urged to intervene to ensure Savile reforms implemented at BBC  —  National Union of Journalists ‘disappointed’ recommendations over bullying have not been followed up  —  The BBC director general, Tony Hall, is being urged to intervene to ensure internal reforms proposed …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Maker Studios Hires Ex-AOL Exec Rene Rechtman to Lead International Operations  —  Exec also will take a stake in the multichannel network operator eyeing expansion outside the U.S.  —  @xpangler  —  Rene Rechtman, who resigned as CEO of AOL's branded content division last fall …
Discussion: Re/code
Brian Braiker / Digiday:
A Tale of Two Daily Mails  —  Online readers of the Charleston Daily Mail received a bit of a surprise this week when they went to the West Virginia paper's homepage.  The paper's address, dailymail.com, took readers to a letter announcing that the Daily Mail had changed its Web address to the somewhat clunkier charlestondailymail.com.
Discussion: @michaelroston
Publishers Weekly:
Simon & Schuster Expands Library E-Book Program  —  After jumping into the library e-book market last April with a limited pilot, Simon & Schuster is expanding its program to more libraries, and adding OverDrive to its list of vendors.  The publisher and OverDrive today announced …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
AOL hands over control of Patch to investment fund Hale Global, keeps small stake  —  AOL Finds a Home — Off Its Books — For Patch  —  Patch isn't dead, and AOL isn't officially done with it.  But Tim Armstrong's big bet on local news has come to an end: The AOL CEO is handing over Patch …
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
THE END OF AN ERROR: AOL Just Disposed Of Controlling Interest In Patch
Discussion: @jeffjarvis
 
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Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Instafax: The BBC's experiment with short-form video news delivered by Instagram
Discussion: @eba and @mattpark
Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
FOIA fight for NSA documents continues
Bloomberg:
Charter's Time Warner Cable Bid Puts Rutledge in Dealmaker Role
Anna Dolgov / The Moscow Times:
Former Siberian Official Given Probation for Journalist's Killing
Discussion: @miriamelder
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Academic Research Platform Sciencescape Raises $2.5M, Partners With Educational Publisher Elsevier
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. freezes pensions in cost-control measure
Axegrinder:
WAN-IFRA press freedom mission to UK: What no mention of the 61 UK journalists arrested since 2011?
Discussion: Press Gazette
 Earlier Picks: 
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The New York Times' R&D Lab is building a quantified-self, semantic-analysis tool to track web browsing
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Capital New York to Introduce Monthly Print Magazine
Discussion: @joepompeo
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Viddy, the “Instagram for Video” That Wasn't, Acquired by Web Video Startup Fullscreen
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and The Verge
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Google brings Play Movies and TV to iOS
Discussion: Gizmodo
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Jana Winter Voices Support for Bill Seeking to Strengthen Colorado Shield Laws
Discussion: Fox News, Politico and Poynter
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
Rep. Waxman on Tribune Meeting: ‘My Concern About the Fate of the Los Angeles Times Was Not Alleviated’