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2:55 PM ET, April 9, 2013

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Felix Salmon:
The disruptive potential of native advertising  —  Andrew Rice delivers 6,000 words on BuzzFeed in the latest NY Mag, which means he has the space to tell a number of different stories.  The one I'm interested in is the way that BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti wants native advertising to disrupt banner advertising.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
McConnell campaign taps FBI to investigate Mother Jones tape  —  Mitch McConnell's reelection campaign is working with the FBI to investigate how the liberal magazine Mother Jones obtained a recording of the Senate minority leader and his aides discussing opposition research on Ashley Judd.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Mother Jones: Mitch McConnell Article ‘Not The Product Of A Watergate-Style Bugging Operation’  —  Mother Jones magazine responded on Tuesday to an FBI investigation into the source of its article about a private meeting held by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Business Insider
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Doubling its U.S. member base in 2 years, Pandora hits 200M registered users  —  Streaming radio service Pandora has crossed the 200-million-registered-user mark, a major milestone for the company coming just a month after CEO Joe Kennedy resigned.  —  Pandora's impressive reach stems …
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
McCandlish Phillips, Longtime Times Reporter With Flair, Dies at 85  —  McCandlish Phillips, a reporter considered one of the finest stylists on The New York Times, who wrote one of the most famous articles in the newspaper's history — exposing the Orthodox Jewish background …
Discussion: The Wrap and Christianity Today
Alastair Reid / @AlastairReid3:
AOP census predicts 15% rise in digital revenue this year  —  Research by the Association of Online Publishers reveals optimism in sector but diversification in revenue streams  —  Copyright: Image by Images_of_Money on Flickr.  Some rights reserved  —  Digital revenue growth among online publishers …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
What next for The Week?  The content curator's plans for the digital domain  —  The Week surprised the publishing industry by carving out a profitable place in the competitive world of magazine news.  Now, it is building up its operations for the digital long term.
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
This Simple App Could Put E-Books On Millions Of Phones In The Third World  —  It sounds counterintuitive, but in certain developing nations it's easier to get hold of a cell phone than a good book.  —  More than one in three adults cannot read in sub-Saharan Africa, yet almost every home …
Lauren Indvik / Mashable:
With Google's Help, ‘Glamour’ Monetizes Hangouts  —  In the two years since its launch, publishers large and small have experimented with Google Hangout to host group video chats with well-known guests, readers and staff, hoping to engage readers and attract new followers.
Discussion: Folio and AdPulp
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Tim O'Brien new Bloomberg View publisher  —  Bloomberg View will name former Huffington Post executive editor Timothy L. O'Brien publisher of the site and a member of the editorial board, according to a forthcoming press release obtained by POLITICO's Mike Allen.
Fox News:
Colorado judge defers ruling on whether Fox News reporter must testify on sources  —  The Colorado judge who will decide whether a Fox News reporter must reveal news sources or face possible jail time has deferred that decision to a later date.  —  District Court Judge Carlos Samour Jr. ruled …
Ted Greenwald / Adweek:
How Wired Magazine Changed the Way We Talk About Technology  —  Imagine a time before smartphones.  Before laptops.  Before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even the mighty Google.  A world without Web browsers, when the Internet belonged to universities and going online meant logging onto a local electronic bulletin board.
Thanks:@max8378
Shia Kapos / Crain's Chicago Business:
Robert Feder leaving Time Out Chicago  —  Robert Feder is wrapping up his media column, at least for a while.  —  “With the sale of Time Out Chicago, I have agreed to accept a buyout of my contract,” he said in an email and on his Facebook page.  “I am eager to continue my work and I expect to make an announcement soon.
Discussion: Chicagoist and AllAccess.com
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Joshua Gillin / Poynter:
Time Out Chicago bought by parent company, staff report layoffs
 
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Nuclear option: would Fox really leave the free airwaves to undercut Aereo?
Discussion: AllThingsD and Mashable
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Big Media Loves Promoted Trends, Twitter's Big-Dollar Digital Billboards
Discussion: Betabeat
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Now Showing on YouTube: Spotify
Discussion: CNET and memeburn
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts
Robert Darnton / New York Review of Books:
The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!
Discussion: Melville House Books
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
For Scientists, an Exploding World of Pseudo-Academia
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Meredith's CEO: ‘There is Potential’ for Time Warner Deal
Discussion: Des Moines Register
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
Mikhail Beketov, Russian Journalist Beaten in 2008, Dies
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
New Threat to Aereo TV
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Shutterstock Has Paid $150m to Contributors and Hit 300m Downloads
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How Twitter Took Over Death