Mediagazer: Netflix Goes Down: Company Says Only DVD Website Affected (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

6:15 PM ET, December 31, 2012

Top News:

Times Reporter in China Is Forced to Leave Over Visa Issue — BEIJING — A correspondent for The New York Times was forced to leave mainland China on Monday after the authorities declined to issue him a visa for 2013 by year's end. — Chris Buckley, a 45-year-old Australian who has worked …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Daily Mail and Committee to Protect …

John Garnaut / Sydney Morning Herald:

China expels journalist after Wen revelations — John Garnaut is The Age and Sydney Morning Herald's China correspondent. — AN AUSTRALIAN journalist with The New York Times has been expelled from China in an apparent act of retaliation for a news report about the family wealth of the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao.

Discussion: Guardian and Business Insider

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

New Tribune Board to Include Peter Liguori, Other Entertainment Veterans — Ex-News Corp. and Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn and former Disney exec Peter Murphy will also join the board as the media company emerges from bankruptcy. — Former top executives of Hollywood conglomerates …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, LA Observed and New York Magazine

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. to emerge from bankruptcy Monday

Discussion: Poynter, Media Decoder, paidContent, AllThingsD, FishbowlNY, NetNewsCheck Latest, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Chicago Sun Times

Dylan Byers / Politico: Tribune Co. names News Corp-heavy board amid rumors of Murdoch buy

Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:

‘Journal News’ advertisers face boycott over gun map — The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association is calling for a nationwide boycott of the advertisers of the suburban New York newspaper that published online maps revealing names and addresses of people with pistol permits.

Discussion: Gannett Blog, nysrpa.org and The Huffington Post

Noreen O'Donnell / Reuters:
New York newspaper to list more gun permit holders after uproar

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, PandoDaily, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit, Gawker and The Gateway Pundit

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Netflix Goes Down: Company Says Only DVD Website Affected — Following its lengthy Christmas Eve outage, Netflix is again experiencing issues today, according to a message posted on the Netflix website, dozens of reports from users on Twitter, and other third-party website monitoring services.

Discussion: SFist, CNET and ZDNet

Associated Press:

German magazine mistakenly publishes Bush obituary — BERLIN (AP) — Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel mistakenly published an obituary Sunday for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, hours after a family spokesman said the 88-year-old was recovering from illness.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Gawker and Mediaite

Salman Masood / New York Times:

Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban, for 3 Minutes — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A ban on YouTube, which Pakistan imposed after an anti-Islam video caused riots in much of the Muslim world, was lifted Saturday, only to be reinstated — after three minutes — when it was discovered that blasphemous material was still available on the site.

Discussion: The Express Tribune, CNET, BBC, TechCrunch, The Verge, AllThingsD, Electronista, CHINAdaily, Times of India, Examiner and The Lede

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Among Top News Stories, a War Is Missing — Look closely at the end-of-the-year lists of 2012's top news stories. What's missing? The 11-year-old war in Afghanistan and American-led counterterrorism efforts around the world. — The Pew Research Center's weekly polling on the public's interest …

Discussion: Gawker

Associated Press:

Netflix CEO pay: Hastings' gets 100 percent raise — Netflix CEO pay will double after he took a 43 percent pay cut this past year for management missteps. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will be paid $4 million in salary and stock options for the coming year. — LOS ANGELES

Discussion: Seeking Alpha

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Touch Publishing Platform Onswipe Now Reaching 10M Monthly Active Users On iOS — Onswipe, a startup that helps publishers build websites optimized for iPads and other touchscreen devices, is closing out what sounds like a big year. Content published through the Onswipe platform reached …

Owen Matthews / Spectator:

Who killed Newsweek? — Tina Brown can't just blame the internet — So farewell then, Newsweek magazine, which published its last print issue this week. After 79 years — 15 of them as my employer — the venerable old rag is to disappear into an uncertain, web-only future.

Discussion: @ianbirrell and CyberJournalist.net

Erika Fry / Fortune:

Can the media escape the wilderness in 2013? — The news and publishing industries are on no firmer ground than a year ago as the quest for a sustainable business model continues. What did we learn from 2012? — FORTUNE — In a year with a highly contentious presidential election …

Discussion: Beet.TV