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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 3, 2012

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Netflix and WaPo bought a combined $8M in Facebook ads last year, IPO says (All Facebook)



2. Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook (Reuters)



3. How...

This Week in Review: Twitter’s censorship compromise, and Facebook files with big numbers

Plus: News Corp.'s growing scandal and Rupert Murdoch's Twitter candor, the hazards of Facebook Subscribe, and the rest of the week's must-reads.

Bloomberg’s Lex Fenwick Named Dow Jones CEO

News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) has appointed Lex Fenwick as the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, filling the position left open following Les Hinton’s resignation in July.

A Second News International Paper Faces Questions In Hacking Investigation

The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times,  police correspondence sent to campaigning MP Tom Watson shows. And its editor has been recalled to discuss it at the government’s hearings on media ethics.

The newsonomics of the next New York Times CEO

Talk about a plum job: chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. The Times is one of the most respected brands on the planet. It is a pinnacle of the news trade. It generated revenues of $2.32 billion in 2011, according to the latest quarterly numbers released this morning. It sits square in...

As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals?

BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growth slow-down and potential threats from newcomers.

Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service

It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a business out of...

The newsonomics of global media imperative

Let's elevate, for a moment. Let's take a NASA view of the media landscape, enjoying the clear, whole-earth picture of our struggling news planet. The wide view would tell us that, although the U.S. often believes itself to be the straw that stirs the global drink, we make up but 5 percent of the world's...

Rhapsody Goes To Europe As New Music Services Compete, News Corp’s Fails

Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success.

WSJ Poaches Narisetti From Washington Post

The reverb from Kevin Delaney’s departure from the Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media Group just hit DC: WSJ alum Raju Narisetti is headed back to the Journal, swapping his role as managing editor of the Washington Post responsible for digital for managing editor of The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Digital Network....

This Week in Review: The SOPA standoff, and Apple takes on textbooks with ebooks

Plus: 'Truth vigilantes' and the fact-checking movement, and the rest of the week's big news and ideas in the media and tech worlds.

Interview: News Int. Hacking Scandal Has Spurred Innovation

News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media - and the phone hacking scandal in which the company is embroiled may even have helped the effort.