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

1:00 PM ET, December 31, 2012

Top News:

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: 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

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

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Tribune Co. names News Corp-heavy board amid rumors of Murdoch buy — The Tribune Company has emerged from bankruptcy and named a new board of directors heavy on Hollywood-based News Corp types, fuelling speculation that Rupert Murdoch is moving closer to a bid for the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Co. to emerge from bankruptcy Monday — The last day of 2012 is the first of a new era for Tribune Co. After spending more than four years embroiled in a contentious Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, the reorganized Chicago-based media company will emerge Monday under new owners …

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

New York Times:

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 …

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: Business Insider

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.

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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: CyberJournalist.net and @ianbirrell

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

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 …

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

NPR:

Margaret Atwood's Brave New World Of Online Publishing … If you're a Margaret Atwood fan — and you've got some spare change under the couch cushions — just a few dollars will get you a stand-alone episode of the new novel she's writing in serial form. — It's called Positron …