It's up and up for Mail Online. The Guardian reports that, according to data from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the site boasted just under 100 million monthly browsers in January. Mail Online was named as the world's biggest newspaper site by comScore last month.

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas has noted that a police investigation into the killing of Brazilian editor Paulo Rocaro has found stronger evidence that he was murdered because of his journalistic work. Rocaro covered stories about drug trafficking on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.

The New York Times reported two days ago that Google plans to launch a pair of high-tech glasses "that will be able to stream information to the wearer's eyeballs in real time." Forbes ponders the ways that the new technology could revolutionise virtual advertising.

Accordingly to a new study released by the Women's Media Center, the U.S. media industry still is dominated by men. As the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas reported, despite the 2012 Report on the Status of Women in U.S. Media showing some good news with women occupying 40.5 percent of newspaper jobs in 2011, compared with 36.6 percent in 2010, media remains overwhelmingly male.

The New York Times announced on Feb 16 that two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid had died from what appeared to be an asthma attack, while on assignment for The Times in Syria. The paper and his colleagues remembered him with this page.

ProPublica has created a nice interactive graphic to show the involvement of various people close (and not so close) to the Murdochs during the phone-hacking scandal.

Who said long-form journalism was dead? Time Out Chicago announces the upcoming launch of The Chicagoan, an ad-free 194-page magazine with a cover price of $19.95. Editor-in-chief and publisher J.C. Gabel states that the content is "really an amalgamation of the best of New York magazine, the New York Review of Books and The New Yorker".

Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern that several foreign journalists have been refused visas to Bahrain in the run-up to the one year anniversary of the uprising that took place in the country.

Piano Media, the company that has set up national paywalls in Slovakia and Slovenia, is planning to bump up its Slovakian subscriptions fees by about 25%, Nieman Lab reports. Piano spokesman David Brauchli thinks that "opposition to payment at this point is not socio-economic but rather philosophical" and "those who are going to pay will pay whether the price is €2.90 or €3.90 per month."

Finally, the Amazon Kindle may soon be launched in Japan and Brazil, reports paidContent

Hello iPad 3? All Things D writes that Apple is gearing up to launch its next iPad at the beginning of March.

AOL has hired Rachel Fishman as Chief Content Officer for its hyperlocal news network Patch, which has been struggling financially, reports Reuters.

The Guardian announces that its editor Alan Rusbridger has taken a voluntary 10% pay cut, and has asked the publisher of the newspaper to reduce the contributions it makes to his pension by 50%.

Poynter has published a career chat, asking what skills digital first news rooms are looking for.

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