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8:55 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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Bloomberg:
Tribune Co. Said to Plan Midyear Newspaper Spinoff With New CEO  —  Tribune Co. (TRBAA)'s proposed spinoff of its newspapers will probably happen by midyear, allowing time to vet candidates to run a business that includes the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Discussion: MediaPost and @edmundlee
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Los Angeles Times:   Waxman says he's still concerned about Tribune newspaper spinoff
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.
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?
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: Digidave, @wijndelts, @digidave and @niemanlab, Thanks:@digidave
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
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
Nolan N. White / The Toronto Observer:
@SochiProblems mastermind revealed: student Alex Broad  —  Popular Twitter account by Centennial College journalism student captures myriad of problems at Sochi Games  —  Take an unusually slow day in a Toronto college journalism school newsroom, and a journalism student with a love of sports.
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: @pkafka
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
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.
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYT hasn't been hit that hard  —  Parsing the numbers with Quartz and the WSJ  —  Quartz posts this graphic of New York Times Company revenues going back to 2003, asking “Can the New York Times's online readership offset its prolonged ad slump?”  —  The Times has very real problems, thank you very much, but they're not this bad.
Discussion: Quartz
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
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BitTorrent Looks to Spruce Up Its Image With Hollywood  —  File-sharing site is forming new content partnerships as it tries to convince showbiz its not the enemy  —  BitTorrent's slogan is meant to be a manifesto of empowerment: “Delivering an Internet of options, not rules.”
Discussion: The Wrap
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.
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 …
Jason Clampet / Skift:
Lonely Planet Buys Budget Travel Magazine, Reportedly for $2.4 Million  —  Travel publisher Lonely Planet has purchased Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine.  —  “It appears, subject to court approval that we may have been the successful bidder on Budget Travel,” Lonely Planet COO Daniel Houghton confirmed to Skift.
Discussion: @rafat
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
First Look hires its general counsel away from The New Yorker  —  Lynn Oberlander is leaving her post as general counsel of The New Yorker after seven years to join Pierre Omidyar's new news organization, First Look Media.  —  Oberlander will oversee all legal aspects of the organization's media operations …
Discussion: Business Wire and First Look Media
 
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Warns of Threat to News Reporting If NCAA Athletes Win Rights
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
Tamara Baluja / J-Source:
Memo: Ottawa Citizen offering buyouts; five laid off at Postmedia's parliamentary bureau
Discussion: @katemalloy379, ctvnews.ca and Guardian
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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