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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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TVNewser, New York Times, Reuters, @trevortimm, Gawker and @jasonleopold
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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.
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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.
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The Huffington Post and @dangillmor
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?
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@jbenton, @harrisj, @pkafka, Gawker, @peterrojas, @jonathanglick, @caseynewton, @alexremington, @alexremington, @tcarmody, @evanatmedium, @evanatmedium and @marathonpacks
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.
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@brettlogiurato and Gigaom
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Robert Graham / Errata Security:
NBC story on visitors to Sochi Olympics getting hacked is misleading
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Graham Cluley, Mediaite, Politico, Businessweek, Paul Proctor, Forbes, @mikko, The Switch, The Huffington Post, @lorenzofb, @dejan_kovacevic, The FJP, Silicon Republic, @a_greenberg, @diminish7, @agelastic, Softpedia News, @lowcalspam, @briankrebs, CNET, Business Insider, @ivorcrotty, @webjournalist, @jesskw_, @redsteeze, @peard33, @helenrazer, @wideasleepnima, Engadget, @alexweprin, @androidcentral, @jandrade, @iliablinderman, @tapbot_paul, @inthisdimension, @grasswire, @stilgherrian and Daring Fireball
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.
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@lheron and Talking Biz News
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.
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@sambrook, @alexandrasuich and @econbizfin
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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@jeffjarvis, Guardian, Softpedia News and TIME
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Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:
Viral Twitter account rounds up all of Sochi's problems
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Digiday, Businessweek, Guardian, Daily Dot, @fieldproducer, Mashable, @buzzfeed and CNET
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.
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@wijndelts and @digidave, Thanks:@digidave
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.
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Gigaom
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 …
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 …
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@fortunemagazine
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
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 …
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The Huffington Post, @bobbie and @rosamundmtaylor
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.
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Kirk LaPointe's …
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.
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Quartz
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.
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@katemalloy379, ctvnews.ca 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.
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10,000 Words, @richjm, @kimchy, @gdndevelopers, @cri and @raju
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.”
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The Wrap
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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Home Media Magazine, Associated Press, PR Newswire, CNET, Reuters, Bloomberg, Engadget, Deadline.com, GeekWire and The Wrap
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