Mediagazer: News International turns to Facebook for Fabulous ‘social media magazine’ (Sarah Shearman/Brand Republic)

8:50 AM ET, January 30, 2012

Top News:

Twitter Gives Glimpse Into Rupert Murdoch's Mind — As American business has become more and more media savvy, its leaders have appeared in media less and less. Business reporters have to work their way past background conversations with underlings, written statements that state nothing …

Discussion: Gawker, @carr2n and @romenesko

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life — IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg …

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Thailand is the world's first government to endorse Twitter's censorship feature — Twitter's controversial move towards enabling the censorsing of tweets has gained the backing of its first international government, after authorities in Thailand publicly endorsed the introduction.

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Reporters Without Borders:
Letter to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey urging him not to cooperate with censors

Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:
Twitter isn't censoring you. Your government is.

Discussion: memeburn, TPM Idea Lab, Forbes and PC Magazine

Sarah Shearman / Brand Republic:

News International turns to Facebook for Fabulous ‘social media magazine’ — News International (NI) is trialling a new publishing model with the launch of its first “social media magazine” on Facebook for its Fabulous magazine. — Tomorrow (1 February) NI launches its Fabulous for Facebook app …

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:

ESPN Deems Mobile ‘First Screen’ — As a pioneer in the mobile media space, ESPN has long seen the value of reaching fans on-the-go with sports scores, video highlights and specialized apps to feed their passion. But rather than view mobile as the oft-described “third screen,” …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

For ProPublica, More E-Books — ProPublica, the nonprofit news organization known for its investigative journalism, is about to expand its e-book efforts. — Following in the digital footsteps of The New Yorker, The New York Times, Politico, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and NetNewsCheck Latest

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Where's the Fire? Kindle Sales Pushing Six Million for the Quarter. — Has anyone seen one of Amazon's new Kindle Fires in the wild? I haven't. But evidently they're everywhere. You just need to know where to look to find them — like Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan.

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Steven Waldman / CJR:

Local TV Stations Rally to Oppose Media Transparency — What exactly are their “public interest obligations”? — Local television stations have now rallied against the key elements of the Federal Communications Commission's media transparency proposal, which would require broadcasters to move their …

Mike Armstrong / Philly.com:

Inquirer, Daily News could be headed for sale — A minority shareholder of the parent company of The Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News is looking to sell its 30 percent stake, according to a story in the New York Post. — Alden Global Capital, a New York hedge fund that holds interests …

Brad Stone / Business Week:

Amazon's Hit Man — Larry Kirshbaum was the ultimate book industry insider—until Amazon called — Larry Kirshbaum, Vice-President and Publisher, Amazon Publishing — In November 1997, on a night of pounding rain in midtown Manhattan, Rupert Murdoch threw a party for Jane Friedman …

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Press Gazette:

Sheridan freed a year after NoW perjury conviction — Convicted former MSP Tommy Sheridan is due to be freed from prison today, after serving just over a year of his three-year sentence for lying under oath. — The 47-year-old was jailed on January 26 last year for committing perjury during …

Discussion: BBC

Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus:

NBC News Asks Romney Campaign to Remove Ad — 4:29 p.m. | Updated TAMPA, Fla. - NBC News is asking that the Romney campaign remove from its ads any references to material from the network in response to a new commercial that consists almost entirely of old footage of its former news anchor …