Mediagazer: Netflix Gives Reed Hastings Huge Raise: Why? (Bill Maurer/Seeking Alpha)

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 …

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

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

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: nysrpa.org, Gannett Blog and The Huffington Post

Gun groups seek boycott of newspaper that named permit-holders — Gun-owner groups called on Monday for an advertising boycott of a suburban New York newspaper that is under fire for publishing the names and addresses of pistol permit-holders in New York City suburbs.

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, Chicago Tribune, LA Observed and New York Magazine

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

Netflix Gives Reed Hastings Huge Raise: Why? — After the bell on Friday, Netflix (NFLX) announced that it was giving CEO Reed Hastings a huge raise. Mr. Hastings will get a $2 million salary along with $2 million of compensation through stock options, the ultimate value of which depends on how Netflix's shares perform.

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: The Netflix Tech Blog, downrightnow, SFist, AllThingsD, ZDNet and CNET

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

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

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, BBC, CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, AllThingsD, Electronista, CHINAdaily, Times of India, Examiner and The Lede

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 …