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11:15 PM ET, March 4, 2014

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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
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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: The Wrap and Mediaite
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 …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Paper Update Pushes Virality By Sending Download Links With Articles You Privately Share  —  Lifesaver iPhone Case Gives Your Smartphone A Dedicated Hardware Panic Button  —  Facebook's hoping to get more people downloading Paper by adding new options to share articles by text message …
Discussion: 9to5Mac, @themediaisdying and CNET
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Poynter
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) …
Discussion: Techdirt
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 …
Discussion: mUmBRELLA and FishbowlNY
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
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and Boing Boing
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.
Discussion: Guardian
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Jason Murray / Ausdroid:
TV Shows now available on Google Play in Australia
Discussion: Forbes and The Next Web
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
It's Official: Dish Won All the Licenses in Recent Airwaves Auction
Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
Ukraine TV Station Cut Off For Challenging Pro-Russia Authorities
Dan Reimold / College Media Matters:
Richmond Collegian Goes Online-Only; Third Student Paper in a Month to Drop Print
Discussion: @yanazure and Change of Subject
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Scoop: Spotify hires Beats Music former head of product
Discussion: Engadget
 Earlier Picks: 
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Vice launches News channel for ‘young, global audience’
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Buffett's Newspapers Lose Readers as Bet on Local Awaits Payoff
Discussion: @edmundlee and @abeaujon
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT corrects 161-year-old article about Solomon Northup
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Epix to Launch on Time Warner Cable on March 18