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5:35 PM ET, February 7, 2014

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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Ex-State Dept. adviser to plead guilty in leak to Fox News  —  A former State Department arms expert has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national defense information to a Fox News reporter, his lawyer said in federal court Friday.  —  The agreement calls for him to serve 13 months in prison.
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Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Guilty Plea In Fox News Leak Case Shows Why Espionage Act Prosecutions Are Inherently Unfair to Sources
Discussion: @trevortimm
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
NBC Blasts Claims That Richard Engel's Terrifying Sochi Hacking Report Was ‘Fraudulent’  —  NBC defended reporter Richard Engel on Friday from charges that his report on hacking in Sochi was “fraudulent.”  —  Engel delivered a report on Wednesday that showed how easily electronic devices could be hacked.
Discussion: @brettlogiurato and Gigaom
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Robert Graham / Errata Security:
NBC story on visitors to Sochi Olympics getting hacked is misleading
Jonathan Glick / Re/code:
Rise of the Platishers  —  What should we call a publisher — like Gawker — that provides a tech platform on which anybody, not just its staff, can create content?  What should we call a tech platform — like Medium — that has a team of editors and pays some contributors to create content?
Erik Wemple:
Time Inc. lays off workers as boss rakes in $1.4 million signing bonus  —  Magazine monolith Time Inc. on Tuesday began laying off workers as the company gets ready to be spun off from TV/entertainment company Time Warner.  According to the New York Times, as many as 500 jobs may be lost as a result of the reductions.
Economist:
CNN's transformation says a lot about what is working today in television  —  CNN's transformation says a lot about what is working today in television  —  JEFF ZUCKER, boss of CNN Worldwide, a cable-news firm, likes to start his morning with a shot of numbers.
Christopher Ratcliff / Econsultancy:
How The Wall Street Journal owns social media through Facebook and Twitter  —  The venerable financial news institution achieved over 4m Twitter followers last weekend and its Facebook page is edging closer to achieving 2m Likes.  —  For what could be considered a niche publication, this is an incredible achievement.
Discussion: @lheron and Talking Biz News
Guardian:
Former Guardian deputy editor Georgina Henry dies aged 53  —  Launch editor of Comment is Free, who was found to have brain tumour two years ago, was ‘a real pioneer’, says Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger  —  Georgina Henry, former deputy editor of the Guardian and inventor and launch editor …
NBC News:
British spies developed technique to manipulate non-British journalists for feeding information to targets  —  Snowden Docs: British Spies Used Sex and ‘Dirty Tricks’ - NBC News  —  British spies have developed
David Cohn / Poynter:
At Circa, it's not about ‘chunkifying’ news but adding structure  —  You sometimes hear what we do at Circa described as “chunkifying” — taking the news and presenting it in mobile-friendly chunks.  And while on the surface this observation is correct, it misses the bigger picture.
Discussion: @wijndelts and @digidave, Thanks:@digidave
Economist:
The media in Saudi Arabia: Beating the censor  —  The kingdom's press and its social media are livelier than ever  —  FOR a country reputed to be dry and dull, Saudi Arabia is surprisingly awash with news.  The good old broadsheet newspaper, dying out elsewhere, thrives.
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Michael Geist / Toronto Star:
Canadian film, music producers look for protection as media landscape changes.  —  Canadian film, music producers look for protection as media landscape changes. … Millions of Canadians now subscribe to Netflix, raising concerns from Canadian film and TV producers.
Discussion: Gigaom
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
10 Questions with BuzzFeed's VP of International  —  The head of International for viral content powerhouse BuzzFeed talks about the language of the internet and expanding beyond the US.  —  FORTUNE — Scott Lamb joined BuzzFeed in 2007, when the company was more of a goofy user-generated link sharing site …
Discussion: @fortunemagazine
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Glam Media Plans To Expand Its Audience Beyond Women, So It's Looking For A New Name  —  As company names go, Glam Media is pretty memorable, but the name is about to change, according to co-founder and CEO Samir Arora.  —  Back when the founders of the digital publishing and advertising company …
Tamara Baluja / J-Source:
Memo: Ottawa Citizen offering buyouts; five laid off at Postmedia's parliamentary bureau  —  Today the Citizen is announcing a new Voluntary Buy-Out offering for the newsroom.  You will find details of the offering in the attached document, as well as posted on a board outside the HR office.
Discussion: ctvnews.ca, @katemalloy379 and Guardian
Ciara Byrne / Co.Labs:
How The Guardian Uses “Attention Analytics” To Track Rising Stories  —  A day after Philip Seymour Hoffman had died of a drug overdose, a year-old article by comedian and actor Russell Brand on why he gave up drugs suddenly burst into the Guardian's top 10 most read list.
Los Angeles Times:
Waxman says he's still concerned about Tribune newspaper spinoff  —  The congressman says a meeting with Tribune executives fails to ease his worries that the L.A. Times and other papers would be hobbled financially after the spinoff.  —  The entrance to the Los Angeles Times building …
Alex Hayes / mUmBRELLA:
News Corp Aussie newspapers lose 17 per cent of revenues  —  Australian newspaper revenues for News Corp dipped further in the final three months of last year, losing 17 per cent year-on-year with CEO Robert Thompson blaming a “challenging advertising market” for the global company's revenues …
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William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
Advertising Declines Weigh On News Corp, Times Co.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Dow Jones to set ‘more flexible’ subscription prices for DJX
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal:
Charter Communications to Put Pressure on Time Warner Cable  —  Charter to Nominate a Full Slate of Board Candidates Next Week, Sources Say  —  Charter Communications Inc. plans next week to nominate a full slate of candidates for Time Warner Cable Inc. 's 13-member board …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros.' Homevideo Exec Mark Horak to Join Redbox as President  —  Mark Horak, most recently president of the Americas at Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, will join DVD kiosk company Redbox as its new president on March 17.  —  Horak's appointment comes after Redbox president Anne Saunders ankled …
 
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Jason Clampet / Skift:
Lonely Planet Buys Budget Travel Magazine, Reportedly for $2.4 Million
Discussion: @rafat
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
First Look hires its general counsel away from The New Yorker
Discussion: Business Wire and First Look Media
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Warns of Threat to News Reporting If NCAA Athletes Win Rights
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BitTorrent Looks to Spruce Up Its Image With Hollywood
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Ex-Sun reporter pleads not guilty to charge of hacking smartphone
Deutsche Welle:
Ukrainian journalists fight to counter influence of state-aligned media
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
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Kyle VanHemert / Wired:
To Grow, Netflix Must Learn From the Quietly Brilliant UI of Regular TVs
Discussion: @mancini and Hit & Run
Jeff McQ / MIMO:
Pandora Now Accepting Digital Submissions from DIY Artists
Discussion: Pandora Blog, ClickZ and The Next Web
Skift:
Travel Channel Pulls New President From Executive Ranks as It Tries to Find a Vision
Discussion: Cision
Brian Lowry / Variety:
Leno Signs Off ‘The Tonight Show’ for Second Time