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8:00 AM ET, March 13, 2014

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Arif Durrani / MediaWeek:
Trinity Mirror's pre-tax profits rise 2.6% as digital focus takes hold  —  Trinity Mirror, home to the Daily Mirror, Sunday People, Liverpool Echo, and the Manchester Evening News, has reported a 2.6% lift in pre-tax profits in 2013, after cost savings and digital investment.
Emily Bell / Guardian:
Journalism startups aren't a revolution if they're filled with all these white men  —  Nate Silver has a chart to hire for ‘clubhouse chemistry’.  Ever heard of something called ‘workplace diversity’?  —  When the predictive superstar Nate Silver announced last summer that he would defect …
Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
What is a music stream?  Artists and labels in battle over digital income  —  Dispute rages over how royalties should be split in the age of Spotify, Google and Apple  —  UK artists, managers and performers have called for streaming revenue to be split 50/50 between labels and artists.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Edward Snowden looms over Pulitzer Prizes  —  Next month, the trustees who oversee America's most distinguished journalistic award could face their toughest decision in at least four decades.  —  The issue before the Pulitzer Prize Board: Does it honor reporting by the Washington Post …
Discussion: @dylanbyers and @mlcalderone
John Glenday / The Drum:
Future pairs with Gawker Media to bring Kotaku and Lifehacker to the UK  —  Media group Future has announced a tie-up with Gawker Media to bring localised versions of Kotaku and Lifehacker to the UK market.  —  Kotaku, the gaming culture media brand, currently reaches 1.1m people …
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
David Remnick Interview: On Russia, Obama and Editing The New Yorker  —  The New Yorker editor on difficult writers, Obama's shortcomings, and learning from Anna Wintour  —  When I met David Remnick at his Upper West Side apartment last month, he had just returned from Sochi.  It was very much a work trip.
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Transformative or just taking?  Lawyers struggle to define fair use in wake of Google Books case  —  When federal judge Denny Chin declared last fall that Google's decision to scan 20 million books did not violate copyright law, the ruling came as a new high water mark for “transformative use” …
Mat Honan / Wired:
Twitter's irreplaceable role in breaking news means it can't crash like it did on Tuesday  —  Why Twitter Can't Keep Crashing  —  Twitter was down for quite some time yesterday.  Once upon a time, that was an annoyance.  But not anymore.  Now, when Twitter goes down, it's a full-on problem.
Brian Braiker / Digiday:
Inside the Texas Tribune model of sustainable journalism  —  One of the best little newspapers in Texas made a big announcement this week.  Austin-based Texas Tribune tapped former New York Times exec Tim Griggs to be its new publisher and chief operating officer.
Discussion: @niemanlab
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
With aid from business training and tech platforms, ex-Patch journalists could end up stronger  —  Like a phoenix from the ashes: How some local reporters are sticking it out post-Patch  —  Wealthy, suburban, outer-metro areas have always been financial strongholds for local journalism.
Discussion: @niemanlab and @ericnewton1
American Press Institute:
Media Insight Project launches to research readers' relationship with news  —  The American Press Institute, The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago announce new research initiative  —  The Media Insight Project will focus on understanding changing news audiences
Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
Lara Logan Still On Leave Of Absence From ‘60 Minutes’  —  Lara Logan remains on a leave of absence from “60 Minutes,” and there is still no word on when she will be returning.  —  Logan was suspended from CBS News in November after airing a botched and discredited report on the October 27 Benghazi attack.
Discussion: Poynter
Jeremy Hodge / Al Jazeera America:
An American journalist's account of his time spent in an Egyptian prison … I stood handcuffed in the prosecutor's office in Cairo's Dokki district, looking down at a three-ring binder notebook that had been seized from my apartment and lay strewn across the table.
Discussion: @evanchill and @awhawth, Thanks:@jaredbkeller
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks denies giving evidence from ‘prepared script’  —  Prosecution suggests that ex-NoW and Sun editor must have been ‘very much aware’ of what her co-defendants were doing  —  Rebekah Brooks has denied giving evidence from a “carefully presented and prepared script” …
Discussion: mUmBRELLA, @lisaocarroll and @ipasho
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Hacking trial hears details of Blair's offer to help Brooks prepare for committee appearance
Discussion: Guy Fawkes' blog and Guardian
 
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Condé Nast to merge two magazine websites to create new design portal
Discussion: Guardian
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Devin Johnson Named Tribune Broadcasting Digital Head
Discussion: TVSpy and TVNewsCheck.com
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Amazon Publishing expands to cover German-language fiction
Discussion: Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Ronan Farrow: Awesome on Twitter, Awful on Television
Discussion: TVNewser and Mediaite
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Movie Piracy Phenom ‘Popcorn Time’ App Yanked by Hosting Provider
Art Brodsky / Wired:
Here's How Comcast Plans to Rule American Cable and Internet
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Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:
VICE News: 'We don't treat the internet like a low-rent version of other media'
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Time Inc. spinoff probably won't mean name change for Time Warner
Arif Durrani / Media Week:
Financial Times opens global commercial academy for staff
Bloomberg:
Berkshire to Buy Graham TV Station in $1.1 Billion Swap
Discussion: Variety, Poynter, NASDAQ.com and Benzinga