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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 …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed plans expansion to Mumbai, Berlin, Tokyo, Mexico City
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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
NYT plans lower pricing to reach non-subscribers and premium products for devoted readers — New York Times to add ‘series of new products’ for digital subscribers — Research by the New York Times has identified opportunities to target both non-subscribers and 'devoted Times readers …
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@matthewkeyslive, mUmBRELLA and FishbowlNY
Todd Spangler / Variety:
HBO Go Launches on PlayStation 3 — HBO's Internet video service, HBO Go, is now available on Sony Computer Entertainment America's PlayStation 3 consoles — but it still isn't available for the newer PS4. — According to Sony, about 25 million PlayStation 3 consoles are in use in the U.S. Netflix …
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PlayStation.Blog, Electronista, Polygon and The Next Web
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.
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda — Keith Alexander says revelations have caused ‘grave damage’ and claims officials are making ‘headway’ on ‘media leaks’ — The outgoing director of the National Security Agency lashed out at media organizations reporting …
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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 …
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Poynter, @georgemunro_cam, @dhinkel, @robertfeder, The Huffington Post and The Newspaper Guild
Bloomberg:
How Turkey's Erdogan held on to a newspaper and TV station despite Murdoch and Time Warner interest — Erdogan's Media Grab Stymies Expansion by Murdoch, Time Warner — In March 2012, Rupert Murdoch flew to Ankara and spent an hour chatting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan about investing in Turkey.
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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.
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.
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Deborah Amos / NPR:
My (Brief) Detention By Iran's Morality Police … On my third day in Tehran last week, I was detained by Iran's notorious “morals police.” This volunteer corps, with a presence in nearly every city and town, polices infractions against Islamic values. These guardians patrol parks …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Undaunted By DirecTV Fracas, Weather Channel To Launch More Primetime Originals — Sam Champion, digital video get emphasis in early presentation geared toward coming upfronts — The Weather Company said it would continue to invest in documentary series for primetime …
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Suspicionless Searches at the US Border: A Growing Problem for Press Freedom — On The Media dedicated its whole program this week to addressing a growing and disturbing problem: the suspension of constitutional rights at the US border, where Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) …
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@exiledsurfer and Techdirt
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 …
Luke Hopewell / Gizmodo Australia:
The War For TV: Aussie Networks Plea For Government Help To Fight Netflix — The war for the future of television is on, and without knowing it, you have already chosen a side. Whether you prefer to stick to terrestrial broadcasts on free-to-air and Foxtel, or if you like to get your shows …
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Twitter shares first “impressions” metrics for Oscars: 3.3B tweets viewed worldwide in 12 hours — Twitter Moves Beyond The Tweet, Shares First “Impressions” Metrics For Oscars — As the race for second screen dominance continues, Twitter is changing how it reports its own TV-related reach.
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The Twitter Blog, Forbes, Mediaite, @kirstinestewart, Mashable, PandoDaily and SocialTimes
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Paper Update Pushes Virality By Sending Download Links With Articles You Privately Share — Facebook's hoping to get more people downloading Paper by adding new options to share articles by text message, email, or Facebook Message that automatically include a “Shared from Paper. fb.com/trypaper” link.
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@themediaisdying, 9to5Mac, @dancow and CNET
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Six men convicted of murdering TV journalist in Pakistan — A Pakistani court has convicted six people for their roles in the murder of Wali Khan Babar, a Geo TV journalist who was shot dead in Karachi in January 2011. — The convictions are significant because they are the first in a decade …
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Reddit GM Erik Martin talks about the site's unlikely success and its new live-reporting feature — We've already written about Reddit's new “live reporting” feature, which gives users the ability to live-blog a breaking news event or post updates about an ongoing story like the revolution in Ukraine …
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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.
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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.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Tony Blair ‘offered Rebekah Brooks help’ day after Milly Dowler revelations
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@lisaocarroll, @dansabbagh and ITV News
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