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12:20 PM ET, March 4, 2014

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The Awl:
Matt Buchanan and John Herrman to run The Awl  —  Meet The Awl  —  For the past five years, we've operated this website in a public beta.  We've been working out some of the implementation.  Next month, around the time of our fifth anniversary, The Awl will finally launch.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian digital revenues hit £70m  —  Publisher of the Guardian and Observer to announce 25% rise in revenues in year to end of March 2014  —  The Guardian is expected to report an increase in digital revenues of more than a quarter to almost £70m in the last year …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT corrects 161-year-old article about Solomon Northup  —  After “12 Years a Slave” won Best Picture at the Academy Awards Sunday, The New York Times tweeted a gem in its archives: An 1853 account of Solomon Northup's kidnapping.  A user on Twitter noticed a problem with the article, which the Times corrects today:
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Justice Department Backs Broadcasters in Aereo Dispute  —  In a Supreme Court filing Monday, the Justice Department backed broadcast networks in their fight against online video streaming startup Aereo.  —  Justice Department lawyers argued that Aereo's broadcast television streaming service infringes …
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Sam Gustin / TIME:
Aereo Boss Says He's ‘Confident’ Ahead of Supreme Court Battle  —  Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia discusses his closely watched legal battle with TV broadcasters  —  Aereo founder and CEO Chet Kanojia is “confident” in his company's case as the upstart video firm prepares to defend itself …
Ernst-Jan Pfauth / Medium:
Dutch journalism platform De Correspondent now has 30,000 paying members  —  De Correspondent is a Dutch-language, online journalism platform that offers background, analysis, investigative reporting, and the kinds of stories that tend to escape the radar of mainstream media because they do not conform …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg:
Brooks Concerned About BSkyB Deal After Milly Dowler Revelations  —  Rebekah Brooks, the former head of News Corp. (NWSA)'s U.K. unit, said she was concerned the discovery that journalists at the News of the World tabloid hacked the phone of a murdered schoolgirl would jeopardize the company's bid for British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc.
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
In ad-skipping deal, Dish gets rights to internet-based TV service that includes ABC and ESPN  —  Dish just secured rights to launch an internet TV service  —  Dish and Disney confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that they've reached a retransmission agreement late Monday …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:   With a Whopper of a Disney Deal, Charlie Ergen Gets a Head Start on the Web TV Race
Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Snowden to speak at SXSW  —  NSA leaker Edward Snowden will speak via videoconference at South By Southwest, the festival has announced.  —  Snowden joins Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian reporter who continues to break stories based on Snowden-provided documents at new site the Intercept, as a festival participant.
Discussion: @abeaujon and SXSW 2014
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Vice launches News channel for ‘young, global audience’  —  Vice News launches today as an ‘evolution’ of the current affairs films that have driven the organisation's recent successes  —  VICE Media launched a news platform today dedicated to current affairs videos for a young, global audience.
Niklas Wirminghaus / VentureVillage:
Q&A with Jonah Peretti on Buzzfeed: “Traffic has grown to 140m unique visitors”  —  LOL, WIN, OMG: founder Jonah Peretti about Buzzfeed's recipe for success  —  Is this what the future of journalism looks like?  Cute animal pictures, funning listicles …
Discussion: Poynter, @carr2n and VentureBeat
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Wellcome Trust aims to provide a home for long-form science journalism online with launch of Mosaic  —  The Wellcome Trust is launching a new online magazine tomorrow which aims to provide a home for long-form science-based journalism.  —  Mosaic will be updated on a weekly basis with 3,000-plus word articles going up every Tuesday.
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Economist experiments with digital-first immersive Essays  —  The first of the Essays series includes two interactive features and a full-screen design, breaking ‘constraints of print’  —  The Economist has launched a new digital-first series called Essays, which is adopting …
Discussion: @losowsky and @alicebell
Murtaza Hussain / The Intercept:
The Washington Post Uses Biased Experts to Promote Propaganda on Venezuela  —  The Washington Post's Feb. 19 article about the recent spate of unrest in Venezuela took a breathlessly laudatory stance towards the opposition against President Nicolás Maduro.  The opening paragraphs offer a good indication of its tenor:
Discussion: @samknight1 and @tomgara
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Epix to Launch on Time Warner Cable on March 18  —  Pay-TV service Epix expects to launch on Time Warner Cable on March 18, the company announced Tuesday.  —  As part of the pact, Time Warner Cable customers will have access to four new channels: Epix, Epix 2, Epix 3 and Epix Drive-In.
 
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