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10:25 AM ET, January 5, 2011

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William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Huffing and Puffing  —  Reminiscent of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Arianna Huffington is being sued by two political consultants, Peter Daou and James Boyce, who claim a critical role in creating her top-ranked Web site, the Huffington Post.  So what exactly happened in the fall of 2004 when Huffington …
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Fimoculous.com:
Arianna is the new Zuckerberg  —  A few months ago …
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Ruth Teichroeb / Safety Net:
Eighteen Months Later: What's happened to Seattle P-I journalists  —  Six months after Hearst shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I surveyed my former colleagues to find out how they were faring.  Most were still looking for work, reeling from the shock of losing their jobs in the depths …
Discussion: Guardian and Poynter
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
An Electronics Show That Media Companies Dare Not Miss  —  LAS VEGAS — When ESPN announced a high-definition channel nine years ago, its executives barely knew about the Consumer Electronics Association.  —  By the time it was ready to announce a three-dimensional channel last year …
Reynolds Journalism Institute / RJI:
The Transition - creating a new copy editor from the ashes of the old production desk.  —  Nick Jungman is Knight Visiting Editor in the Columbia Missourian newsroom and a visiting assistant professor in the Missouri School of Journalism.  For 13 years, he was a reporter and editor for The Wichita Eagle …
Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Journalism's problem isn't the Internet or advertising; it's attitude  —  By Robert Niles: Forget about Internet competition, the alleged advertising crash, declining news program ratings and newsroom cutbacks.  There's only one problem facing the journalism industry in 2011.  —  And that's... attitude.
Nick Summers / New York Observer:
Inside the Media Hiring Bubble  —  “I didn't feel like I was being interviewed for a job,” said the AP's Ron Fournier, about the lunch that would lead to his becoming the next editor of National Journal.  —  “It was not a job interview,” said The New Republic's Michelle Cottle …
Discussion: Poynter
ProPublica:
Why We're Publishing Advertising, and Where We Stand on Funding  —  Starting tomorrow, ProPublica will begin publishing advertising on its web site, and likely soon we'll include it as well in our daily email, on our mobile site and in our iPad app.  —  We're doing this for the usual reason …
Discussion: Poynter and Nieman Journalism Lab
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Spotify 2010 US launch ‘delayed by labels’ high cash demands'  —  Spotify's long-awaited 2010 US launch failed because the major record labels demanded “extremely high cash advances”.  —  Spotify until recently has claimed it will launch stateside by the end of 2010.
Discussion: SlashGear
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Sure, RSS Is Dead — Just Like the Web Is Dead  —  A brush fire has been swirling through the blogosphere of late over whether RSS is dead, dying, or possibly severely injured and in need of assistance.  It seems to have started with a post from UK-based web designer Kroc Camen that got picked up by Hacker News and re-tweeted a lot.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
VC Money Keeps Pouring In For Ad Targeters: Turn Raises $20 Million  —  Turn is the latest ad tech firm to greet the new year with a whopping sum of venture capital.  The Silicon Valley-based company has raised $20 million in a fourth round funding, bringing its total raised to $58.5 million in the past five years.
Discussion: Turn, more at Techmeme »
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Robert Gibbs leaving the White House  —  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is leaving the White House, Democrats who have spoken with him say.  Gibbs started informing his White House colleagues Wednesday.  —  The Post reported on Tuesday that Gibbs was considering leaving the administration …
Nieman Reports:
Gay Talese: On What Endures in Sports Writing Amid Change  —  Early in October Gay Talese came to the Boston Athenaeum to celebrate publication of “The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese.”  In this collection of his stories, his words span nearly five decades …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Sky Atlantic to launch next month  —  New channel to showcase US programming with Boardwalk Empire and a lineup of HBO dramas and comedies  —  • Sky Atlantic's 2011 programme highlights  —  Sky Atlantic, BSkyB's new pay-TV entertainment channel showcasing US programming including HBO output …
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Reports: Newsweek Staff Gutting to Continue With Buyouts  —  After multiple rounds of layoffs and Daily Beast merger  —  Between financial instability and a change in ownership, Newsweek has lost a number of its top journalists over the past year.  But now talk is spreading …
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Today Show experiments with augmented reality  —  If you happen to be at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, you may see people swinging their iPhones randomly in the air.  No, they're not crazy — they're looking for virtual objects planted by the NBC Today Show.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
American Media's True Ideology?  Avoiding One … This is the second in a two-part series looking at ideology in the media.  —  In a media landscape littered with opinionated talk show hosts and ideology-driven websites, strong points of view are hardly tough to find.
Tara Bahrampour / Washington Post:
'Daily Show'-type satire finds an audience in Iran, and a big enemy  —  For the past 30 years, state-approved television in Iran has consisted largely of Islamic prayers, interviews with government ministers, melodramatic soap operas and talk shows in which mullahs expound on the depravities …
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
News Corp pay deal for Joel Klein worth over $4 mln  —  News Corp (NWSA.O) will pay former New York City Education Chancellor Joel Klein more than $4.5 million if he meets targets set in his new role as chief executive of the media company's new education unit.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Steven Kurutz / Speakeasy:
A Journalism Prof's Thoughts on Preparing Tomorrow's Reporters … It must be strange to teach at a journalism school these days, with many publications shrinking or folding and many Web sites not yet able to pay living wages to writers.  How do you prepare a young journalism student …
Wayne Barrett / Runnin' Scared:
Time for Something New  —  ​Ed Koch and I were inaugurated on the same day in 1978.  He became mayor and I became his weekly tormentor.  —  I had written a few pieces for the Voice before I took over the Runnin' Scared column that January, going back as far as 1973.
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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Barrett and Robbins Out at Village Voice
 
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Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Miso checks into funding from Google, Hearst
TheAustralian:
We didn't kill newspapers, says Google
Choire Sicha / The Awl:
You're Being Gamed  —  Gabe Zicherman, the author of Game-Based …
Remy Stern / Gawker:
Gawker 2010: By the Numbers
David Carr / Media Decoder:
HuffPo Hangs the ‘Help Wanted’ Sign
Discussion: Poynter and The Huffington Post
Jim / Gannett Blog:
Urgent: I hear furloughs have been announced
Discussion: Poynter
James Parker / The Atlantic Online:
The Wild World of Sports
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bay Guardian, SF Weekly reach antitrust settlement
 Earlier Picks: 
John Dunbar / CJR:
A Television Deal for the Digital Age
Discussion: The Huffington Post
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Facebook vs. Time Warner: A Not-So-Rigorous Financial Evaluation
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
Dallas Morning News to launch paid content on Web, mobile
Discussion: Dallas Morning News
David Folkenflik / NPR Topics:
In London, A Case Study In Opinionated Press
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
USA Today Buys Consumer Electronics Review Network Reviewed.com