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3:10 PM ET, January 6, 2011

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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Man Who Spilled the Secrets  —  The collaboration between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Web's notorious information anarchist, and some of the world's most respected news organizations began at The Guardian, a nearly 200-year-old British paper.  What followed was a clash of civilizations …
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Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:
Julian Assange: I Own All of the WikiLeaks Documents
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Mark Memmott / NPR:
Review Of Juan Williams' Firing Done; NPR News Exec Resigns  —  NPR just released two statements — one on the completion of an independent review of the dismissal of news analyst Juan Williams and another on the resignation of Senior Vice President for News Ellen Weiss:
Discussion: Gawker, Poynter, New York Times and The Hill
Joe Flint / Company Town:
Turner CEO says heavy Web exposure made company lose interest in reruns of ‘Modern Family’  —  “Modern Family” co-creator and executive producer Steve Levitan has not been shy about voicing his concerns that the show's exposure on the Web would hurt its long-term value and ratings.
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Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Turner Chief Explains How TV Industry Will Neutralize Netflix
Discussion: GigaOM
Hollywood Reporter:
Courtney Love's Tweets Lead to Unique Defamation Showdown … The following article appears in the current issue of The Hollywood Reporter available on newsstands Wednesday.  —  Courtney Love was very upset.  —  The firebrand rocker had been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir …
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Cisco's Videoscape: Ready to Reinvent TV?  —  Cisco announced an ambitious strategy for making high-quality video — whether it be from online or traditional TV and cable providers — pervasive across a wide range of devices, from broadband-connected set-top boxes to tablets and other mobile devices at CES Wednesday.
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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Pay TV industry moves to adapt to Internet age
Discussion: Company Town
Phawker:
DEBUNKED: The Great Philadelphia Paywall Scare  —  As you may have seen by now, Philebrity is trumpeting an exclusive on news that Philly.com will be going behind a paywall some time soon, according to what they claim are reliable sources.  We have it on good authority …
Discussion: Poynter and philebrity.com
Economist:
The crucible of print  —  Britain's embattled newspapers are leading the world in innovation  —  BY MOST conventional measures, Britain's newspapers look doomed.  Young readers are abandoning them for the internet and television.  The Daily Express and the Daily Mirror, both tabloids …
Discussion: Big News Network.com
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Mark Leccese / Boston Globe:   The Future of Newspapers: National and Hyperlocal
Lauren Sherman / Fashionista:
Tumblr is Sending 20+ Bloggers to New York Fashion Week  —  Tumblr, the image-heavy platform beloved by top fashion bloggers like Tavi Gevinson and Jessica Quirk (What I Wore), is focusing more of its energy on the fashion industry.  —  In fact, it's sending more than 20 of its bloggers to New York Fashion Week.
Discussion: Styleite, New York Observer and Gawker
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Phone hacking: full list of the victims identified so far.  As a spreadsheet  —  The News of the World phone hacking scandal affected thousands, but so far only a few of them are known.  Nick Davies lists the victims identified so far  —  • Get the data
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Fortune:
Las Vegas's copyright crapshoot could maim social media  —  Righthaven founder Steve Gibson is going after copyright infringers using the murky legal definition of fair use to power a sue-first strategy.  Yet with sharing tools booming online, could clicking a Like button lead to a lawsuit?
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Hollywood-Backed ‘Video Anywhere’ to Debut in Mid-2011  —  It's been talked about for so long that it was beginning to feel like an impossible dream.  —  On Wednesday, the two and half year journey to make “video anywhere” a reality moved several important steps closer to completion.
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
NBC to premiere ‘The Cape’ on iPad app  —  Here's a first.  NBC is premiering the one-hour pilot episode of “The Cape” on an iPad app — and not NBC's app, but on DC Comics' free iPad app.  —  “What better partner than DC Comics, whose audience is devoted to the comic book genre from which 'The Cape …
Discussion: TVbytheNumbers
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of tablets replacing newspapers  —  [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]  —  Ready to trade up?
Discussion: The Digital Reader
Robinsloan / Twitter Media:
The art of the hashtag  —  This is something we've been talking about with media partners more and more lately, so I thought it would be useful to mention it here on Twitter Media, too:  —  All hashtags are not created equal.  —  MTV's Video Music Awards hashtag—#ifbiebermetgaga— has become a canonical example.
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Poynter
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Glenn Beck Hires Former Huffington Post Chief  —  Looking to further expand his growing media presence, Glenn Beck, the conservative talk-show host, has hired a one-time chief executive of the left-leaning Huffington Post to lead his new Web site, The Blaze.
Todd Spangler / Multichannel:
CES: Yahoo Teams With Cable Nets, Broadcasters On Internet TV  —  Pilot Program to Run Through First Half of 2011  —  Las Vegas — Yahoo is working with cable and broadcast programmers and advertisers including ABC, CBS, HSN, Showtime Networks and Ford to provide enhanced interactive TV …
Discussion: Lost Remote and MediaPost
 
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Dave Levinthal / OpenSecrets.org:
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Adrianne Jeffries / New York Observer:
Forget Real-Time, NY Startup Predicts Pageviews 15 Min Into the Future
Discussion: Visual Revenue and eMedia Vitals
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
News agency seeks to cash in on celeb Twitter pics
Esther Bintliff / Financial Times:
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Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
CES: Record your own TV talk shows on Avatar Kinect
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Nielsen: U.S. consumers crave TVs, mobile devices
Discussion: SFGate and Nielsen Wire
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