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8:35 PM ET, January 27, 2012

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Jillian C. York:
Thoughts on Twitter's Latest Move  —  Today, Twitter announced a new system that will allow the company to geolocationally block (or, to use their terms, “withhold") specific tweets in specific countries.  On the company blog, Twitter explained: … It's been difficult to comment …
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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis
Alex Klein / Jim Romenesko:
Yale Daily News editors sat on explosive Patrick Witt story for months  —  Earlier this year, national news outlets breathlessly reported that Yale's quarterback, Patrick Witt, had chosen to skip a Rhodes Scholarship finalist interview in order to lead our team against Harvard in the annual Game.
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Bloomberg:
New York Times Co. Faces Leadership Vacuum  —  The departure of New York Times Co. (NYT) Chief Executive Officer Janet Robinson last month leaves the company with a leadership vacuum amid falling revenue, profit squeezed by pension costs and pressure from family members to restore a dividend once worth more than $20 million a year.
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Adam Jacobi says CBS fired him over Paterno death report  —  In a series of tweets, Adam Jacobi says CBS let him go after he published a story Saturday night saying that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died.  Jacobi tweets:
Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Dan Abrams on Profitability, a New Food Site and Impending Fatherhood  —  Plus Why Jane Dough, the Rebranded and Refocused Mogulite, Is Already Doing Better Than Its Predecessor  —  TV host.  Entrepreneur.  Friend of David Zinczenko.  Acceptor of Andrew Breitbart.
Discussion: @romenesko and FishbowlNY, Thanks:@matt_creamer
David Lipke / WWD:
Bloomberg to Launch Luxury Lifestyle Magazine  —  A design spread from the first issue of Bloomberg Pursuits.  —  Photo By Courtesy Photo Photo By Courtesy Photo  —  BLOOMBERG'S FASHIONABLE PURSUITS: Users of the Bloomberg Terminal are among the richest demographic in the world …
Paul Miller / The Verge:
Debate rages as Spotify, MOG, and Rdio kill / save the music industry  —  For the conscience-laden music consumer, streaming music services present an interesting quandary.  By separating the concept of “legal access to music” from the age-old paradigm of “paying the artist for an entire song or album …
Discussion: ShortFormBlog and VentureBeat
Steve Myers / Poynter:
In another election challenge to AP, Nevada GOP to release caucus results via Twitter, Google  —  The Nevada Republican Party announced Friday afternoon that it will release up-to-the minute results of its Feb. 4 caucus on Twitter, enabling anyone to get the latest information without relying …
Discussion: Guardian and The Newspaper Guild
Dylan Byers / The Politico:
Reuters laments Marco Rubio ‘fiasco’  —  Reuters is still kicking itself over an article about Republican golden boy Senator Marco Rubio that yielded five corrections yesterday and may have warranted more.  —  One senior staffer at Reuters described the episode to me as a “fiasco,” another as a “disgrace.”
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
As Goodreads Ends Sourcing From Amazon, Users Fear Lost Books  —  Book-centered social networking site Goodreads, which allows users to keep records of the books they read and share the information with others, has long sourced most of its basic book data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).
Discussion: TeleRead
Guardian:
Who next for BBC director general role?  —  Mark Thompson has signalled that he is ready to step down, but who will take over from him?  We look at the main contenders  —  Peter Fincham, ITV director of TV  —  Has led a creative revival at ITV, with hits such as Downton Abbey, since joining the commercial broadcaster in 2008.
 
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Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Why CNN's Digital Strength May Cause Problems For Fox
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Ad Pages Up for Fashion Magazines' Important March Issues
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Adveith Nair / Reuters:
James Murdoch to quit GSK board
Business Wire:
News Corporation Announces Matthew Anderson to Step Down as Group Director, Strategy …
Discussion: @dansabbagh, Guardian and Deadline.com
Janet Paskin / CJR:
The Velvet Rope  —  Why do journalists still care about seeing their name in print?
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Aziz Ali / PSFK:
Why The Graphic Novel Will Save Business Journalism
Tim Currie / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How a tightly paywalled, social-media-ignoring, anti-copy-paste, gossipy news site became …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Steve Myers / Poynter:
New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Memo to media: Supply and demand are out of your hands
Discussion: Erik Wemple, Poynter and eMedia Vitals
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Revision3 does cable TV network numbers — viewership hits 800M in 2011
Discussion: SocialTimes.com and Revision3, Thanks:@tched
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
Forget Hulu and Amazon: What Netflix is worried about is TV Everywhere
Discussion: AllThingsD
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Geraldine Baum, The LA Times' NY Bureau Chief, Steps Down After 23 Years
Discussion: TVNewser, FishbowlDC and FishbowlLA