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7:30 AM ET, January 4, 2013

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Gore Went to Bat for Al Jazeera, and Himself  —  Al Gore at the Current TV studios in San Francisco in 2005.  He said Al Jazeera's coverage was “thorough, fair and informative.”  —  Al Gore's Current TV was never popular with viewers, but it was a hit where it counted: with cable and satellite providers.
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Time Warner Cable Says It Will Keep ‘Open Mind’ on Reinstating Al Jazeera  —  Time Warner Cable minced no words when it announced on Wednesday night that it was dropping Current TV, just hours after Al Jazeera acquired the channel.  “Our agreement with Current has been terminated …
Reuters:
Al Jazeera's new channel struggles for U.S. distribution  —  (Reuters) - Al Jazeera's announced plans to establish a new U.S. cable news channel via the purchase of Current TV isn't even 48 hours old and already it finds itself in a vicious battle to retain distribution rights.
Discussion: PandoDaily
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
New Cable Channels Keep Coming Despite Content-Cost Crackdown  —  Players ranging from WWE to ABC News and Univision will again try to elbow their way onto pay-TV program guides this year.  But 2013 may prove particularly inhospitable for upstart networks as cable and satellite distributors …
Discussion: Globe and Mail
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Questions Linger for Hosts After Sale of Current TV  —  Eliot Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm, Joy Behar and the other hosts on Current TV have no idea what comes next.  —  On Wednesday, their television home was sold to Al Jazeera, which plans to remake Current into an international news channel …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Bad news for cord cutters: Al Jazeera America won't be live streamed online  —  Cord cutters won't be able to tune into Al Jazeera America, the new cable news network that was announced Wednesday in conjunction with the news that Al Jazeera has purchased Al Gore's Current.tv.
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Al Jazeera will face hurdles to succeeding with Current TV
Discussion: @rafat and ABCNEWS
Ann Friedman:
Journalism Is Personal  —  You probably read this post at Gawker, in which Hamilton Nolan aims to put the fear of Cronkite into the aspiring Thought Catalog contributors of America.  You probably also read that Andrew Sullivan is striking out on his own, hoping his readers will pony …
Discussion: VentureBeat, Guardian and TIME
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Sullivan's new Dish raises $333,000 from over 11K people in first 24 hours  —  On Thursday, Andrew Sullivan pronounced himself “somewhat gob-smacked” by readers' response to his immensely popular blog the Dish leaving the Daily Beast, going independent and charging $19.99 a year.
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Why Tumblr and Buzzfeed are on a collision course in 2013  —  The decline and fall of traditional media empires is one side of the ongoing turmoil within the industry, but the other side is the rise of disruptive new players, and two of the most prominent names in that category are BuzzFeed and Tumblr.
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
BuzzFeed Is Now Valued At ~$200 Million, But Investors Think It Has Billion-Dollar Potential
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Buzzfeed Raises $19.3 Million to Make LOL Content for the Social Web
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Digital Cracks 50% of Ad Revenue at Wired Magazine  —  First for the Title Is an Encouraging Sign for the Industry  —  Digital contributed half of all ad revenue at Wired magazine in the final three months of 2012, a first for the title and an encouraging sign for an industry …
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
Legimi Wants To Be The ‘Spotify For Ebooks’ With A Business Model That Relies On You Reading Less  —  Legimi is definitely a startup I'll be watching closely in 2013.  Put simply, it aims to be the ‘Spotify for ebooks,’ in which for a monthly subscription, users get access to a potentially infinite library …
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
The E-Reader Revolution: Over Just as It Has Begun?  —  The e-reader era just arrived, but now it may be ending.  —  Dedicated devices for reading e-books have been a hot category for the past half-dozen years, but the shrinking sizes and falling prices of full-featured tablet computers …
 
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Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog:
China, the American Press, and the State Department
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Fox News producer was scolded by State Department
Discussion: Mediaite, Politicker and New York Times
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Journal News will screen incoming mail after it receives suspicious powder
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Five officers in Met's phone-hacking probe face misconduct allegations
Discussion: Belfast Telegraph and The Sun