Mediagazer: Amazon-owned Audible lowers royalty rates on self-published audiobooks (Laura Hazard Owen/Gigaom)

4:05 PM ET, March 3, 2014

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Washington Post opens tech outpost in New York — The Washington Post is expanding its New York footprint with the creation of a Manhattan-based design and development office. — The new satellite hub, called WPNYC, will result in more than a dozen new hires including designers, strategists and information architects.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Guardian corrects: Bradley Manning didn't take Ellen's Oscar selfie — Ellen DeGeneres' “Oscar selfie” is now the most retweeted photo ever. But that bit of history wasn't apparently enough for The Guardian, which appended this somewhat amazing correction: to some of its Academy Awards coverage:

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks: NI's ‘rogue reporter’ defence shaky after 2009 revelations — Former News International chief tells phone-hacking trial that company's corporate line came from NoW editor Colin Myler — Rebekah Brooks knew that News International's position in 2009 that phone hacking …

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Guardian:
NI paid phone hacker's legal fees to stop him ‘naming names’, court hears

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Jim Romenesko:

Cheryl Gould leaves NBC News after 37 years — Cheryl Gould was the first female executive producer of “NBC Nightly News,” and helped create “NBC Overnight with Linda Ellerbee. Her time at NBC - nearly 37 years - “has taken her all over the globe and country,” NBC News president Deborah Turness writes in a memo.

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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

Piers Morgan Plans to Remain at CNN for ‘Big Name’ Interviews — Showbiz 411′s Roger Friedman reported Sunday that Piers Morgan plans to stick around CNN doing high-level interviews. — “I'll make a deal to do twenty or twenty-five shows a year, all interviews with big names,” Morgan said.

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Dylan Byers / Politico: Sources say Piers Morgan still in negotiations with CNN; his staff staying on with the network

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

NYT media desk shuffle continues with Julie Bosman's departure for Midwest beat — Julie Bosman leaves publishing beat for Midwest gig — Julie Bosman, who's covered publishing for The New York Times for the past four years, is leaving the beat for a new gig as the paper's Midwest correspondent.

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David Kaplan / Global Investigative Journalism Network:

Masked Gunmen Seize Crimean Investigative Journalism Center — As Russian troops streamed into Crimea, Ukraine, yesterday, masked gunmen broke into and seized the office of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism in the region's capital, Simferopol.

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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

Financial Times CEO: 'We've now achieved critical mass in digital' — In 2007, the Financial Times was one of the first newspapers to begin a serious and sustained effort to build a paid digital content model with the launch of its metered access system. Seven years later …

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Al Jazeera English:

Egypt police get 10 years for killing blogger — Two police officers found guilty of killing that was one of the incidents that provoked uprising against Hosni Mubarak. — Two policemen have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for killing an Egyptian blogger more than three years after the incident …

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Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:

Supreme Court Rejects FilmOn X's Request to Join Aereo Case — The Supreme Court rejected FilmOn X's request Monday to formally intervene in the fight over web transmission issues between Aereo TV and major broadcasters, which the court is set to hear April 22.

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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon-owned Audible lowers royalty rates on self-published audiobooks — Audible, the digital audiobook site owned by Amazon that launched audiobook rights platform ACX in 2011 as a way for authors and publishers to profit from their unsold audiobook rights, is now lowering the royalties it pays on those audiobooks.

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Warren Buffett on newspapers: “___________” — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has, over the past few years, bought up dozens of newspapers, with 69 papers and other titles currently part of the BH Media Group, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Greensboro News & Record, Omaha World-Herald, and Tulsa World.

Discussion: Gawker, Globe and Mail and Business Insider

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

The Washington Post's Native Ads Get Editorial Treatment — Even as native ads naysayers argue for clear labeling and design cues so readers don't confuse them with actual journalism, publishers and advertisers have pushed to make the units look more like editorial. — The latest example comes from The Washington Post.

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