Mediagazer: Q&A with Jonah Peretti on Buzzfeed: “Traffic has grown to 140m unique visitors” (Niklas Wirminghaus/VentureVillage)

5:20 PM ET, March 4, 2014

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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.

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: Capital New York, Poynter, @carr2n and VentureBeat

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed plans expansion to Mumbai, Berlin, Tokyo, Mexico City

Discussion: Medium, FishbowlNY and @poynter

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Boston Globe drops paywall, adds meter instead — A memo from Editor Brian McGrory lays out a number of big changes to the Globe's digital businesses. The catchiest: “We've replaced the paywall with a meter that allows readers ten free stories in a 30-day period.

Discussion: Politico, Media Nation, @globemoskowitz, @mathewi, @abeaujon and @dankennedy_nu

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: SXSW 2014, Mediaite, The Wrap, VentureBeat, CNN, Variety, CNET, TheHill and @abeaujon

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:

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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 …

Discussion: @edwardroussel, @amelscript, @colinmorrisonuk and @gordonmacmillan

Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:

Ukraine TV Station Cut Off For Challenging Pro-Russia Authorities — By Peter Graff and Alissa de Carbonnel — KIEV/SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine, March 4 (Reuters) - Two days before Russian forces began the operation to seize Crimea, somebody threw two Molotov cocktails through the window of Black Sea TV.

Committee to Protect Journalists:
Independent media, journalists obstructed in Crimea

Discussion: The Week, CNN and New York Magazine

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

Merrill Knox / TVNewser:

Brian Stelter's ‘Reliable Sources’ Gets First Demo Win — For the first time since Brian Stelter took over as the anchor of “Reliable Sources,” the CNN program has topped Fox News' “MediaBuzz” in the A25-54 demographic. — “Reliable” averaged 193,000 A25-54 viewers at 11amET Sunday …

Discussion: Mediaite

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Huffington Post Business and Global News Editor Is Leaving for International Business Times — Peter S. Goodman, the executive business editor and global news editor of The Huffington Post, is leaving the website to become editor in chief of International Business Times.

Discussion: Capital New York, FishbowlNY, @alexmleo, @bysamro, @alexnazaryan and New York Magazine

Robert Feder:

Amid more layoffs, Sun-Times rehires four photographers — Four of the photographers who were fired when the Chicago Sun-Times eliminated its photography department last spring are rejoining the newspaper this week. — Rich Chapman, Brian Jackson, Al Podgorski and a fourth photographer whose name …

Discussion: Poynter, @dhinkel, The Huffington Post and The Newspaper Guild

Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Changes at the Orlando Sentinel felt ‘extremely familiar’ for a former Sun-Times photographer

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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

Leading copyright law professors tell SCOTUS Aereo infringes copyright owners' exclusive right of public performance — Nimmer on Aereo: It's Illegal — Law professors lambaste Second Circuit decision — A pair of leading copyright law professors with scores of papers and books under …

Discussion: Guardian and Techdirt

Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Justice Department Backs Broadcasters in Aereo Dispute

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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.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Tony Blair ‘offered Rebekah Brooks help’ day after Milly Dowler revelations

Discussion: ITV News, @dansabbagh and @lisaocarroll

Steve Johnson / Chicago Tribune:

Carl Kasell to retire from NPR's 'Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!' … Carl Kasell, official judge and scorekeeper of the hit NPR comedy-quiz show “Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!” since it began in 1998, will retire from the show this spring, Kassel and NPR announced Tuesday.

Discussion: NPR, Politico, @wbezacuddy, Los Angeles Times, @latimesrainey and @choptedallen

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

It's Official: Dish Won All the Licenses in Recent Airwaves Auction — Dish Network is officially the winner of all of the wireless broadband airwaves licenses recently auctioned off by the federal government. The satellite TV provider was the presumed winner of the auction last week …

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 …