Mediagazer: Android TV: Why Google Needs a Second Path to Television (Todd Spangler/Variety)

11:30 AM ET, April 12, 2014

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Texas Monthly to file lawsuit over hiring of Jake Silverstein as editor of NYT Magazine — Texas Monthly to Sue New York Times Over Magazine Editor — The publisher of the Texas Monthly is expected to file a lawsuit against The New York Times and Jake Silverstein, the Monthly's editor …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Texas Monthly owner: We aren't suing Jake Silverstein — AUSTIN, TEX.—Texas Monthly parent company Emmis Publishing tells Capital that they're not suing outgoing editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein over his decision to accept a job with The New York Times as the editor of its Sunday magazine.

Discussion: @buzzfeedben

Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:

Viacom Looks to Set Social Media Guarantees — Partners with Mass Relevance on Tool to Measure Engagement Across Social Media — Cactus — Viacom is taking steps toward offering advertisers guarantees for the social media impact it can give them. — The company, which owns networks …

Discussion: Marketing Land

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Publishing to take on $325 million in debt — Tribune Publishing, the newspaper division of Chicago-based Tribune Co., will carry at least $325 million of debt when it spins off as a standalone company, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Henry Waxman asks Tribune CEO to reconsider newspaper spinoff

Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:

Weibo's content gap: just 5% of users post nearly all original content — Another scathing report documenting Sina Weibo's decline hit the press yesterday, just one week before the Twitter of China lists on the US stock market. — This one comes from the South China Morning Post via Hong …

Amanda Holpuch / Guardian:

Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian dedicate award to Snowden — The journalists who first revealed the extent of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities on Friday dedicated a prestigious award to their source, Edward Snowden. — Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras …

Discussion: Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, RT, The Republic and VentureBeat

Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:

Layoffs at Al Jazeera America — As it nears eight months on-air, Al Jazeera America is laying off a few dozen staff employees as well as freelance employees, TVNewser has learned. — In an email to staff we obtained, network President Kate O'Brian said the network has reached a …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Business Insider and Variety

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Android TV: Why Google Needs a Second Path to Television — Google has a runaway hit with Chromecast, the cheap, lightweight adapter for slinging Internet video to HDTVs, selling millions of the $35 dongles (just 30 bucks on Amazon!) since its launch last summer.

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

IAC bought 11% of Tinder from Palihapitiya for only $55M, valuating company at $500M — Hot but Not That Hot: Tinder Stake Sale Puts Valuation of Whole Startup at $500 Million — As in dating online, a Bloomberg report from earlier today that put the valuation of popular dating app Tinder …

Discussion: Forbes, Fortune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Bloomberg

Press Association:

Metro editor Kenny Campbell to be replaced by NY Daily News' Ted Young — Young to take charge at UK national freesheet, returning to Associated Newspapers after previously editing Mail Online — The editor of Metro, Kenny Campbell, has left after 15 years with the newspaper.

Discussion: Guardian

BuzzFeed:
“Metro” Editor Kenny Campbell Leaves Newspaper

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David Kravets / Ars Technica:

Appeals court reverses hacker/troll “weev” conviction and sentence [Updated] — Appeals court skirts Computer Fraud And Abuse Act analysis. — A federal appeals court Friday reversed and vacated the conviction and sentence of hacker and Internet troll Andrew “weev” Auernheimer.

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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Reddit Starts Listing Trending Subreddits To Get More Users Into Its Smaller Communities — Subreddits are, perhaps, reddit's biggest strength. Introduced in 2008, they're a huge part of the reason why the site rose to popularity, and why that popularity has yet to taper off.

Discussion: Re/code, Mashable, The Next Web and Electronista

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

CBS' Leslie Moonves paid $67 million in 2013; Redstone gets $57 million — Leslie Moonves, chief executive of CBS, has earned plenty of pocket change. (Evan Agostini / Associated Press) — CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves remains the king of media compensation.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times