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8:20 AM ET, December 29, 2011

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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
The Times E-Mails Millions by Mistake to Say Subscriptions Were Canceled  —  Home-delivery subscribers to The New York Times and others received a mass e-mail notice on Wednesday erroneously saying that their delivery had been cancelled.  —  The e-mail, which the Times's spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Times' grumbles grow  —  Four days after disgruntled New York Times staffers sent an open letter of frustration to publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the “Save Our Times” campaign had amassed 270 signatures in protest of the Times' decision to freeze some employees pension plans …
Ben Popper / Betabeat:   We Got the New York Times Email Spam. Feeling Special
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
After Sale, New York Times Regional Employees Brace for Layoffs
Discussion: Forbes, mnilive.com and rbr.com, Thanks:adamclarkestes
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Could SOPA fly if big media put skin in the game?  —  The biggest web-related legal controversy over the past few months — if not the entire year — has been the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.  The bill's shortcomings have been covered to death (including by GigaOM here and here) …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
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Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:
Confused by SOPA?  Five Multimedia Explainers  —  Unless you live under a rock, it's pretty hard to ignore the buzz that the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) has generated in the last few months.  The controversial bill, along with its companion bill, Protect-IP Act (PIPA) …
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Conferences raise unanswered questions about fact checking  —  The Great Fact Checking Explosion continues to ripple as we approach 2012.  —  Following a November event co-hosted by Jeff Jarvis and Craig Newmark at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, I recently headed to Washington …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
L.A. Times Adds More Games to Website, Hoping to Boost Revenue  —  In a bid to boost its digital revenue, the Los Angeles Times has struck a deal with Arkadium, a major online game developer, to add more than two dozen games to that section of its website.  —  Related Articles:
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Thanks:steverubel
Wall Street Journal:
Fuse Is a Flash Point in Cable Fight  —  Millions of New Yorkers might miss Knicks basketball games if the MSG Network went dark on Time Warner Cable's systems in the new year, amid a bitter dispute over fees.  But how many viewers are missing the other network caught up in the fight, the Fuse music channel?
Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:
Hollywood Copyright Dispute Still Flaring  —  LOS ANGELES — Anyone who thought the nasty legal fight between the Penske Media Corporation, owner of the Deadline.com Web site, and Prometheus Global Media, owner of The Hollywood Reporter, wouldn't get nastier just wasn't thinking.
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
After Losing Its Star Writers, Engadget's Traffic Has Gone Up  —  When AOL's Engadget lost its roster of star editors and reporters, the natural assumption for many people in the tech-media world was that it was in big trouble.  —  Well, guess what?  Engadget is doing just fine without those writers.
Andrew Longstreth / Reuters:
Analysis: Manning's legal strategy could lead to plea deal  —  (Reuters) - While it may appear that the government's document-leaking case against U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is strong, the defense could have some surprising leverage with prosecutors and force plea negotiations.
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Why writers tweet about death, illness, rape  —  When Rocky Mountain News reporter Berny Morson tweeted from a child's funeral in 2008, journalists called the incident “repulsive” and “tasteless.”  Now, it seems, nothing is off-limits when it comes to Twitter.
Julian Sanchez:
The New York Times on Ron Paul's Newsletters  —  With Ron Paul's now-infamous newsletters once again making headlines, I mulled whether I ought to revisit the issue, but ultimately decided that there wasn't much to add to the long piece Dave Weigel and I wrote for Reason back in 2008 …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NY Times challenges ‘lazy rewrite’ accusation
 
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Sidney Crosby / Associated Press:
Fox continues dominance of cable news in up and down year, CNN shows prime-time gains
Discussion: TVNewser and TVNewser
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
GoodReads' Recommendation Engine Acquisition Gooses The Publishing Game
Michael Zhang / PetaPixel:
A Glimpse Inside the Camera Bag of a War Photographer
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Television Must Crack the Customizable Content Code, Too
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
What's Coming In 2012: Book Publishing
Jim Romenesko:
Reporter not allowed at Occupy's meetings in public park
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Research: Internet Is UK's No. 2 News Source, But Only 3.8 Percent Pay
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
Netflix big customer satisfaction loser in '11
Discussion: AllThingsD
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Was WaPo's Flock Forced on Vacation?
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
How Hulu's ‘Steamboat’ ads recommend new shows to users
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
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