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1:15 AM ET, January 13, 2016

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Jeff Gammage / Philly.com:
Gerry Lenfest, sole owner of Philadelphia Media Network, contributes newspapers, website to nonprofit institute  —  Lenfest donates newspapers, website to new media institute  —  The owner of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com has donated the news organizations …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times hires Jim Rutenberg, NYT Magazine's chief political correspondent, as media columnist after year-long search for David Carr's replacement  —  New York Times Names Jim Rutenberg Media Columnist After Almost Yearlong Search  —  Editors looked inside and outside the paper to fill David Carr's perch.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Twitter Integrates Periscope, Adds Autoplaying Live Video to Timeline  —  Twitter and its social live streaming service Periscope are now joined at the hip: Twitter officially integrated Periscope's live streams into its timeline Tuesday, where live video streams are now be auto-playing directly within tweets.
Felix Salmon / Fusion:
How Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes erred with The New Republic, treating it as a startup instead of a revered century-old magazine  —  Chris Hughes and the dangers of impact investing  —  Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who bought The New Republic for a reported $2.1 million in 2012 …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Facebook and Google Move Execs to Work On Virtual Reality  —  In a sign of the growing importance of virtual reality (VR) for tech companies, both Google and Facebook have tasked seasoned executives to work with their respective VR divisions.  —  Google's VP of product management Clay Bavor …
John Koblin / New York Times:
‘Serial’ Podcast, Needing More Reporting Time, Goes Biweekly  —  At the beginning of every episode of “Serial,” the host, Sarah Koenig, opens with these words: “From This American Life and WBEZ Chicago, it's ‘Serial,’ one story told week by week.”  —  Well, make that every other week.
Discussion: ABC News, Serial and Mashable
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New York Post:
Bewkes nixes HBO spinoff but open to Time Warner sale  —  Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes told investors in a series of closed-door meetings Monday that he's against a sale or a spinoff of HBO but hinted he would entertain a sale of the New York media giant, The Post has learned.
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Village Voice owner brings back Will Bourne as editor-in-chief  —  The Village Voice has a new editor in chief.  —  New owner Peter Barbey is bringing back Will Bourne, who'd served briefly as editor in 2013, to replace Tom Finkel, who had served as editor since July 2013 after Bourne resigned amid a clash with the owners at the time.
Discussion: @joepompeo and FishbowlNY
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
CBS, Warner Bros. considering online, paid streaming version of jointly-owned CW network  —  CBS, Warner Bros. Said to Consider Online Version of CW Network  —  Expiring deals with Tribune, Netflix, Hulu create new option  —  Looming Web service could provide leverage in negotiations
Jen Primack / The Reader's Room:
Amazon's book cataloging and discussion site Shelfari is merging with Goodreads; users have two months to move data  —  Amazon Kills Shelfari  —  It's official, the day that I've been dreading for several years has arrived.  Amazon, which owns both Goodreads and Shelfari, has decided that it no longer cares to maintain Shelfari.
Discussion: @danprimack and Marian Reads
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BuzzFeed breaks UK ad rules over misleading advertorial  —  Dylon sponsored article titled ‘14 Laundry Fails’ did not make clear content was piece of marketing, advertising watchdog rules  —  BuzzFeed has broken the UK advertising rules for failing to make it clear that an article on …
 
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Hulu to unveil virtual reality apps and content this spring, says company's head of experience Ben Smith
Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Engadget
Jonathan Stray / Nieman Lab:
Analysis of whether media coverage drives political poll results, or vice versa
Discussion: @murpharoo
Nyay Bhushan / Hollywood Reporter:
ESPN and Sony partner to launch two co-branded sports channels in India on January 17
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Interview with McClatchy's new head of news strategies, Tim Grieve, about analytics, social media, and local journalism
Discussion: @mcclatchy
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David Bowie was one of the first artists to predict how the Internet would change music, acted on it with his own ISP BowieNet, digital music initiatives