Mediagazer: Russian newspaper ‘being persecuted’ (Roy Greenslade/Guardian)

Anthony De Rosa / @antderosa:

Looks like @rupertmurdoch joined Twitter and he's verified.

Discussion: @jack, @brianstelter, @annielowrey, Mediaite, @jeffjarvis, @fromedome, @piersmorgan, @ethank, @ivankatrump, @felixsalmon, @anildash and @rupertmurdoch

Glyn Moody / Techdirt:

The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal? — One of the great tasks facing humanity today is digitizing the world's books and liberating the huge stores of knowledge they contain. The technology is there - scanners are now relatively fast and cheap - but the legal framework is struggling to keep up.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and TeleRead

Seth Godin / The Domino Project:

How the long tail cripples bonus content/multimedia — The Long Tail is Chris Anderson's brilliant coinage. If you're not up to speed on it, here you go. — Well, the long tail has hit the book business, and hard. The number of ebooks published in 2012 is going to exceed a million, easily.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Techdirt and TeleRead

Wall Street Journal:

Time Warner, MSG Appear to Fail to Reach Agreement on Dispute — NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden Co.'s sports networks won't be available for Time Warner Cable Inc. subscribers in the new year, as the two sides were unable to resolve a dispute over programming costs according to a press release issued late Saturday.

Discussion: NY Daily News

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Russian newspaper ‘being persecuted’ — A Russian newspaper editor who claims his paper is being persecuted has appealed to international press freedom watchdogs for help. — Vitaly Shapran, editor of the Gorodskoi Vestnik, the only opposition paper published in Berdsk, Novosibirsk …

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Here is the news - newspaper organisations defy the digital revolution — At the beginning of this month, Clay Shirky offered some thoughts on how we journalists might like to think about our digital future. — His essay (it seems trite to describe it as a mere posting), Institutions …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Sunni leader denies NY Times byline — Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi is denying his participation in a New York Times op-ed bearing his byline, Agence-France Press reports. — “The article published in the New York Times... has been written without the knowledge of speaker Nujaifi …

Ammar Karim / Agence France Presse: Iraq row festers as speaker denies penning op-ed

Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:

Was 2011 the year of the great paywall? Not exactly — As the year comes to a close, the media is stuffed with pundits proclaiming that 2011 was the year of something or other. For the most part, it's easy to ignore these trend pieces: Many of them are simply chum thrown in the water …

Jillian Berman / The Huffington Post:

Cable TV Bills Have Nearly Tripled In The Past 10 Years — Do you feel like your cable bill is significantly higher than it used to be? That's probably because it is. — The average cable TV subscriber pays nearly three times as much for cable now as they did in 2001 …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

The Death of the Foreign Correspondent? Not So Much — A year ago today we wrote about one of those annual “predictions” stories. It was from Mashable's Vadim Lavrusik who had a host of predictions for the news media in 2011. This was No. 6: … Lavrusik, who is also an adjunct professor …

Discussion: eBookNewser, FishbowlNY and 10,000 Words

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Hulu Missing Out On The Facebook Sharing Gold Rush — Facebook has super-charged a handful of lucky media companies selected to test-drive the social network's frictionless sharing platform. But even though video-sharing site Hulu was on the early bird list, it failed to make a splash.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Despite kingmaking expectations, Fox News seems neutral among GOP field — Even before the first Republican presidential candidates declared they were running, pundits and political operatives alike were debating the Fox News Channel's potential influence on the GOP race.

Erik Wemple:

Ron Paul's newsletters: Where was Texas? — The Houston Chronicle seems tired of the Ron Paul newsletter story. Richard S. Dunham, the Chronicle's Washington bureau chief, led his Dec. 27 story on the matter with these words: … Dunham adds that the “issue is old news in Texas,” where Paul has served 11 congressional terms.

Discussion: Mediaite