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1:20 AM ET, February 2, 2012

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Guardian:
Facebook's IPO announcement  —  Full coverage as the social network launches the biggest-ever stock market listing for a technology company  —  Can Zuckerberg rise to $100bn of expectations?  —  9.06pm: Facebook's listing promises to be the float of the century.  —  Well, other than Google back in 2004.
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The Old-School Value of Facebook  —  The New York Times's curtain-raiser on the Facebook IPO this morning asks, “Personal Data's Value?  Facebook Is Set to Find Out.”  —  But is that really what Facebook is set to find out?  The Times says about all this private data …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Facebook wants to rewire the way the world works  —  There's a lot to take in when it comes to the much-anticipated Facebook IPO filing — the company's massive user base of 845 million (more than half of whom log on at least once a day), the $1 billion in net income it made last year, the almost $4 billion in revenue, and so on.
David Benoit / Deal Journal:
Netflix & Wash Post Bought $8M Combined In Facebook Ads Last Year  —  It's not just Zynga that's creating revenues for Facebook.  The social network's getting a good dose of advertising revenue from the combined duo of the Washington Post and Netflix.  —  According to the filing …
Wired.com:
Facebook's $5 Billion IPO: The Next Google? Or The Next Groupon?
Discussion: Guardian
Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
‘Gasland’ Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans  —  In a stunning break with First Amendment policy on Capitol Hill, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highly regarded documentary crew that was attempting to film a Wednesday hearing on a controversial natural gas procurement practice.
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Talia Buford / Politico:
Josh Fox arrested at hearing  —  Photo courtesy of the office of Rep. Paul Tonko  —  Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Josh Fox was arrested Wednesday morning after attempting to film a House Science Committee hearing on hydraulic fracturing.  —  Fox was led out in handcuffs …
Discussion: Mediaite
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times and 12 other news organizations write another letter to the NYPD, calling for answers in police treatment of the press  —  Police during the Occupy Wall Street ‘Day of Action.’ Adrian Kinloch  —  The New York Times fired off another letter to the Police Department today on behalf of 13 …
Discussion: Gothamist and Future of Journalism
Steven Greenhouse / Media Decoder:
Former Intern Sues Hearst Over Unpaid Work and Hopes to Create a Class Action  —  5:23 p.m. |  Updated A former unpaid intern for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing its parent company, the Hearst Corporation, of violating federal and state wage …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Former Harper's Bazaar intern suing Hearst may want to rethink career goal  —  Xuedan Wang, former “Head Accessories Intern” at Harper's Bazaar, has sued Hearst Corp. for not paying her to work as an intern.  The Times reports that she interned at the magazine for a year until December, working 40 to 55 hours a week.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Wall Street Journal Co-Anchor to Move to CNBC  —  Kelly Evans, who became a video star at a place not known for that sort of thing, The Wall Street Journal, is moving to the television network CNBC.  —  Ms. Evans will be an on-air reporter for the network, the CNBC senior vice president Nik Deogun …
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL's Armstrong: Some Patches DID Turn Profitable in 2011  —  Armstrong.  Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife  —  It's not like AOL chairman Tim Armstrong to hide his light under a bushel, but when it comes to Patch, the company's hyperlocal network, he may have done just that on this morning's earnings call.
Discussion: Business Insider, Betabeat and Forbes
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
AOL Beats Low Expectations, Increasing Ad Revenue and Slowing Total Decline in Q4 (Plus Charts!)
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Is AOL Retreating on Its Patch Profitability Promise?
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Wikileaks to move servers offshore, sources say  —  Julian Assange's investors are in the process of purchasing a boat to move WikiLeaks' servers offshore in an attempt to evade prosecution from U.S. law enforcement, FoxNews.com has learned.  Multiple sources within the hacker community …
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Robert Booth / Guardian:
Julian Assange extradition breaches legal principle, lawyer claims
Discussion: newsfeed.time.com
Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
Assange's Supreme Court extradition appeal kicks off
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Country Basis’  —  Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required.  —  Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic.
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
L.A. Times Revenue Officer Departs (Exclusive)  —  Los Angeles Times executive John T. O'Loughlin will become the latest high-ranking official to leave the newspaper, TheWrap has learned.  —  O'Loughlin serves as the Times' Executive Vice President of Advertising and Chief Revenue Officer …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and FishbowlLA
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Lauren Lloyd / LAist:
Former L.A. Times Employee Warns Of Impending Massive Writer Layoff
Discussion: Frying Pan News
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
NYPD: Officer who obstructed ‘Times’ photographer during O.W.S. protest got a reprimand  —  The New York Police Department reprimanded an officer and a sergeant who obstructed journalists covering an Occupy Wall Street demonstration at the World Financial Center back in December, according to Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
An Apple TV set in 2012?  —  The hardware is the easy part.  The trick is to get Hollywood on board  —  “Apple enters markets to reinvent them,” wrote Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster in a note to clients Tuesday reiterating his oft-repeated conviction that Apple's (AAPL) next big thing is an Apple-branded television set.
Eddie Scarry / FishbowlDC:
Operation ‘Butter Up FNC’ in Full Force by Politico  —  Politico has been working diligently to defrost its icy relationship with Fox News as of late.  And it appears to be paying off, or at least moving in a cozier direction.  —  FishbowlDC has learned that FNC's media relations department has been forced to “soften up” on Politico.
Discussion: TVNewser, Politico and FishbowlNY
Roy Greenslade / London Evening Standard:
Arrests leave Sun journalists feeling cast off by Rupert  —  Wapping journalists are in a state of shock.  Many now believe that their ultimate boss, Rupert Murdoch, no longer cares for them.  Staff at the Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times were taken aback when news broke at the weekend of four senior Sun journalists being arrested.
Discussion: Guardian and Jon Slattery
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John Stevens / Daily Mail:
Email to James Murdoch telling him hacking was rife at NotW was deleted days before police launched investigation
 
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
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