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9:25 AM ET, March 29, 2014

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEightDataLab:
FiveThirtyEight admits issues with climate-science article, will commission rebuttal  —  FiveThirtyEight to Commission Response to Disputed Climate Article  —  FiveThirtyEight relaunched less than two weeks ago.  It's been a heck of a learning experience.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
FiveThirtyEight Apologizes On Behalf Of Controversial Climate Science Writer  —  NEW YORK — Two prominent climate scientists say Roger Pielke Jr., a controversial writer at Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight site, sent emails threatening possible legal action in response to their criticism of his findings for the data-driven news site.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
New York Times names Jake Silverstein as Magazine editor  —  Texas Monthly editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein has been hired to serve as editor of The New York Times Magazine, two sources with knowledge of his hiring told POLITICO.  Times executive editor Jill Abramson is expected to announce …
Emerging Technology From the arXiv:
The Evolution of Automated Breaking News Stories  —  A Google engineer has developed an algorithm that spots breaking news stories on the Web and illustrates them with pictures.  And it is now filing its first stories on Twitter.  —  Breaking news stories are one of the driving forces for online media.
Discussion: @heyavie
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Faith and a media icon: Newsweek's unconventional new owners  —  It was meant to herald the triumphant return to newsstands of a venerable 80-year-old American media institution with a proud journalistic record.  —  Newsweek's 4,500-word relaunch cover story on Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto …
Hilmar Schmundt / Spiegel Online:
How Copyright Laws Keep E-Books Locked Up  —  Many publishing houses don't allow their products to be lent out by digital libraries for fear of piracy.  Articles and books by researchers are also affected.  Readers are the ones who have to pay the price.  —  When the German author Johann …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Designer Craig Mod launches Hi, an experiment in iterative writing and networked journalism  —  The internet and the social web have transformed almost every pursuit that humans can engage in, and writing is clearly high on that list.  But despite all of the advancements in distribution …
Discussion: @jcstearns
Re/code:
Yahoo tries to lure YouTube stars with better ad rates for new video service  —  Ready for Marissa's Closeup?  Yahoo Is Considering Creating Its Own YouTube (And Poaching YouTube Stars).  —  Google-owned YouTube hasn't had a serious competitor for years.
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
U.S. judge OKs class action in e-book suit against Apple  —  (Reuters) - A federal judge in New York granted class certification on Friday to a group of consumers who sued Apple Inc for conspiring with five major publishers to fix e-book prices in violation of antitrust law.
Discussion: TeleRead, MacRumors and AppleInsider
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Wheeler: L.A. Test Makes Compelling Case For Channel Sharing  —  FCC chair says broadcasters can have their cake and eat it too  —  FCC chairman Tom Wheeler says the results of the Los Angeles channel sharing test demonstrates the once in a lifetime opportunity the incentive auctions provide …
Discussion: Variety, TheHill and Reuters
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
After criticism, Talking Points Memo defends its new sponsored content  —  A Note on Sponsors  —  As you can see, over there to the right we have what's labeled a “Sponsored Message” from PhRMA.  As I mentioned yesterday, they're sponsoring a new section of IdeaLab we launched this week.
Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:
Huffington Post CEO Maymann: “HuffPost Live” Nears Break Even, Eyeing Global Expansion  —  LONDON — Nearly two years after launching, HuffPost Live, Huffington Post's effort to reinvent rolling TV news, is on the verge of breaking even, says HuffPost's CEO.
 
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Music-tech heavyweights pile into $8.5M round for Bandpage
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Ex-Gawker EIC Daulerio plans tabloid-like network of sites named Ratter in SF, LA and NYC using Kinja
Mark Mueller / New Jersey Online:
Amid changing media landscape, Star-Ledger, NJ.com and affiliates form new company
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Softcover Is A New Self-Publishing Platform Aimed At Technical Authors
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BBC:
Phone-hacking trial: Rebekah Brooks was ‘relieved’ to resign
Discussion: ITV and Guardian