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9:40 AM ET, February 7, 2014

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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.  —  News Corp's revenue fell 4% in its fiscal second quarter as a drop in advertising and subscription revenue at the news and information business offset growth at its other businesses.  —  Net income dropped to $150 million from $1.4 billion …
Discussion: @yahoofinance
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Dow Jones to set ‘more flexible’ subscription prices for DJX
Discussion: Talking Biz News
First Look Media:
First Look launches its first digital magazine  —  Last week, First Look Media announced that it will publish a family of new digital magazines - each with its own editorial voice, its own look and feel, and each led by veteran journalists with deep expertise in their fields.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:   First Look adds more journalists, plans to launch first publication next week
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Advertisers make $900-million bet on Olympic Winter Games  —  Despite threats of terrorism and other problems at the Games, no major advertiser has canceled its order for commercial time during NBCUniversal's 1,539 hours of coverage.  —  Cross-country skier Martin Johnsrud Sundby …
Discussion: Fortune and New York Times
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
For NBC, a challenge in covering the Sochi Winter Olympics objectively
Robert Graham / Errata Security:
NBC story on visitors to Sochi Olympics getting hacked is misleading  —  That NBC story 100% fraudulent  —  Yesterday (Feb 5 2014) NBC News ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics, it'll immediately be hacked the moment you turn it on.
Politico:
The Snowden era of journalism  —  Welcome to the Edward Snowden-era of national security journalism — a time when no scoop is too small, no detail too minor, and revelations about government surveillance pour forth on an almost daily basis.  —  It's a significant departure from the way things used to be.
Discussion: @20committee and @free_snowden
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S.
Discussion: Mediaite
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: Guardian, @katemalloy379 and ctvnews.ca
Brian Lowry / Variety:
Leno Signs Off ‘The Tonight Show’ for Second Time  —  “I don't like goodbyes; NBC does,” Jay Leno said in his latest last opening monologue, as he bid farewell to “The Tonight Show” — again — on Thursday night.  —  Characteristically, Leno wasn't particularly maudlin or sentimental at first …
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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.
Discussion: @gdndevelopers, @cri and @raju
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Spotify Premium membership offer for Times subscribers  —  News UK strikes deal for year's membership to digital music service for all subscribers to newspapers' digital pack  —  Subscribers to the Times and Sunday Times will be offered a free year's membership to Spotify Premium as part …
Discussion: Gigaom, @zseward, @raju and thedrum.com
Deutsche Welle:
Ukrainian journalists fight to counter influence of state-aligned media  —  Ukrainian journalists are fighting to create independent media in a bid to counter the influence of state-aligned news outlets.  These journalists say government propaganda has escalated political tensions in Ukraine.
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.
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 …
Kyle VanHemert / Wired:
To Grow, Netflix Must Learn From the Quietly Brilliant UI of Regular TVs  —  “Smart” TVs have failed because they've always assumed more is better.  Instead of evolving the television experience, TV makers have simply added to it, heaping more streams, more services, and more content onto …
Discussion: @mancini and Hit & Run
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Today's Zaman:
Turkey orders deportation of Azerbaijani journalist after his tweets criticizing government
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
AOL's Armstrong Responds to 401(K) Controversy in Internal Memo to Employees  —  Earlier today, a controversy arose over changes to AOL's 401(k) plan that some employees chafed at.  When AOL CEO Tim Armstrong used an example of the rising costs of all benefits by using the example …
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
Aereo Reopens New York Online-TV Service to New Subscribers  —  Aereo Inc., the online-television company that's battling broadcasters in the Supreme Court, reopened its service to New York subscribers after regaining enough capacity to handle demand.  —  People who were on a waiting list …
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Brent Lang / The Wrap:   Fox Is ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ Supreme Court Will Stop Aereo
 
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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
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Condé Nast Entertainment now has eighth branded video channel
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
PubMatic Raises $13 Million From Nokia Growth Partners
Discussion: AdExchanger
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hearst's Seventeen Magazine Sets YouTube Channel Lineup with AwesomenessTV
Discussion: @hearstcorp
 Earlier Picks: 
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Sony exits the North American ebook business and gives its customers to Kobo
Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:
Borowitz Lite: A Twitter King Scales Back His Online Presence
Discussion: @stefanjbecket and @itsdgc
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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