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6:10 AM ET, January 24, 2012

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Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Editor Is the Story as French Huffington Post Debuts  —  PARIS — Anne Sinclair smiled big for the cameras, not as the betrayed wife standing by her man, but as the star journalist she once was and hopes to be again.  —  The wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Ms. Sinclair returned to public life …
Discussion: Associated Press and paidContent
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:   Updated: Can HuffPo Pull Off A Double Whammy With A New Video News Service?
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
How AP's ‘conditions for accuracy’ protected it from false Paterno, Giffords death reports  —  At around 9 p.m. on Saturday night, the AP newsroom was abuzz with reports on Twitter and elsewhere that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died.  AP associate managing editor Ted Anthony …
Discussion: The New Yorker Blog and @mathewi
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Jim Romenesko:   Devon Edwards will remain on Onward State staff
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: YouTube hits 4 billion daily video views  —  (Reuters) - YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.  —  The jump in video views comes as Google pushes YouTube beyond …
JTA News:
Atlanta Jewish Times publisher resigns over Obama assassination column  —  (JTA) — The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times has resigned and is seeking a buyer in the wake of a column he wrote speculating that Israel would consider assassinating President Obama.
Discussion: Gawker
Jim Romenesko:
Chicago Tribune will keep endorsing candidates  —  We will keep doing election endorsements.  It takes a lot of work to investigate these races and talk to the candidates and make an informed recommendation to readers, but I think endorsements are at the heart of what an editorial board does.
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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
The Chicago Sun-Times Decides Not To Endorse A Candidate For The First Time In 71 Years
Fusible:
Facebook registers ‘newsroom’ domains, is a social news website on the way?  —  Facebook has had a busy week with domain names.  —  On January 18, the company registered a slew of domains with “FB Origin” in the name.  It followed up those purchases with “timeline movie maker” domains.
Press Gazette:
BBC spent £310,000 on private detectives in six years  —  The BBC spent £310,000 on private detectives over a six-year period, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.  —  The corporation once used investigator Steve Whittamore, who was later convicted of illegally accessing personal data …
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Shane Croucher / International Business Times:
Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Sun Set for April Launch
Discussion: @tom_watson
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Tom Watson calls on Met to investigate Times email hacking
Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian and Tom Watson MP
@skynewsbreak:   Media Committee chair John Whittingdale MP says “several NOTW reporters appeared to have hacked Milly Dowler's phone”
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A Post-mortem with Raju Narisetti: “I would have actually tried to move faster”  —  Raju Narisetti does not seem like the kind of guy who settles.  “I'm a big believer in newsrooms being in a permanent beta stage,” he told me recently.  His Twitter bio hits inspirational notes …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Public Petitions The White House To Investigate Chris Dodd & The MPAA For Possible Bribery  —  Late on Friday, we posted a story about how Chris Dodd at the MPAA appeared to be directly threatening politicians who had taken money from Hollywood, but refused to pass SOPA/PIPA.
Capital New York:
‘Businessweek’ explains the bloodied-Romney cover they killed; plus, take a look at ‘New York’ mag  —  The latest issue of New York magazine just arrived in the mail, and the cover is a provocative one.  —  It depicts Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, photoshopped to look bloody and beaten …
Jessica Wohl / Reuters:
Steve Jobs family absent from Disney board despite stake  —  (Reuters) - When Disney shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative from his trust will be on the ballot, even though the trust is the media company's largest shareholder.
Felix Salmon / Reuters:
How sharing disrupts media  —  I'm at DLD in Munich, where David Karp of Tumblr and Samir Arora of Glam Media helped me understand the way that media and publishing are evolving these days, and the way in which creating, editing, and publishing are increasingly separate things which interact …
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Tumblr Blows Past 15 Billion Pageviews Per Month, Thumbing Nose At Old Media Thinking As It Goes
Discussion: The Next Web and WebProNews
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Murdoch's Trusty Outsider Takes a Larger Role  —  Last August, as News Corporation scrambled to contain a phone-hacking scandal at its British newspaper unit, Chase Carey, the company's president and chief operating officer, proposed an idea to his boss, Rupert Murdoch: buy back $5 billion worth of stock.
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Gawker Is Egregiously Trolling for Traffic in an Open Experiment  —  Gawker boss Nick Denton.  —  The start of 2012 brings with it a new top editor at the flagship site of Nick Denton's Gawker Media, as A.J. Daulerio, formerly of the network's sports blog Deadspin, takes over at the general-interest gossip site.
Discussion: Gawker
Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:
Surprise As ProPublica Image Posted On Facebook Goes Viral  —  The next time you log onto Facebook to post your latest article, think twice about what you share.  Instead of copying in the link, why not share an image from the story instead?  —  That method worked well for ProPublica.
 
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Polar Mobile Raises $6 Million For Magazine Apps, Cross-Platform Services
Discussion: Polar Mobile
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Meet Andrew Beaujon, the New Romenesko
Michael Bathon / Bloomberg:
Post-Dispatch Owner Lee Enterprises Wins Approval of Bankruptcy Exit Plan
Anthony Palazzo / Bloomberg:
Netflix Replaces Marketing Chief After User Revolt
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Brisbane: ‘I ended up as a pinata on this one’
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Newsweek's New iPad App is Worth a Look
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Joe Flint / LA Times:
Fox and RCN team up on Spanish-language broadcast network
Politico:
Media roasts POLITICO for 5 year anniversary
Discussion: FishbowlDC and Mediaite
Jeremy Greenfield / Digital Book World:
NBCUniversal Launches Book Publishing Arm, NBC Publishing
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
350,000 Textbooks Downloaded From Apple's iBooks in Three Days
 

 
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others

Sheila Chiang / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to ~$18.87B, vs. ~$18B est., net income up 8.9% YoY to ~$6.97B, vs. ~$6.6B est., and expects strong AI chip demand in Q2
 
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