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12:45 AM ET, January 8, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico Layoffs Begin Amid Restructuring  —  NEW YORK — Since its 2007 debut, Politico has expanded its newsroom quickly while some legacy media outlets, like the Washington Post, have scaled back.  But Politico isn't immune from having to restructure in the face of industry demands, and in recent days, it has laid off some staffers.
Discussion: Mediaite and @michaelroston
Adam Martin / New York Magazine:
Journal News Reporters Told They'll Be Shot Walking to Their Cars  —  After it published a map of handgun owners in two suburban New York counties, the Journal News may be the nation's most terrifying place to work as threats have been coming in against employees at every level …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT: Journal News story was a hasty production
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Samsung will sponsor AP tweets during CES  —  Electronics giant Samsung will provide content for tweets sent through AP's account during the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show electronics show in Las Vegas, the press cooperative says in a press release.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Absolutely, Positively Not a Netflix-Killer: AT&T Launches Its Own Video Subscription Service  —  Does the world need another streaming video subscription service?  It is getting one, regardless: Here comes U-Verse Screen Pack, a $5-a-month offer from AT&T.
Discussion: /Film, TechCrunch and CNET
Emad Mekay / CJR:
The Muhammad movie: look who fanned the flames  —  Despite what Western media reported it was not Islamist outlets that stirred things up  —  Back on September 11, protestors gathered outside the US embassy near downtown Cairo, furious over reports of a video said to portray Islam and its prophet, Muhammad, in a brutally negative way.
Mark Johnson / Journal Sentinel:
Online comments hurt science understanding, study finds  —  By Mark Johnson of the Journal Sentinel  —  A new obstacle to scientific literacy may be emerging, according to a paper in the journal Science by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.  —  The new study reports …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Linking: Scraping vs. Copyright  —  Irish newspapers created quite a stir when they demanded a fee for incoming links to their content.  Actually, this is a mere prelude to a much more crucial debate on copyrights, robotic scraping and subsequent synthetic content re-creation from scraps.
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Sony and BMG Are Said to Team Up on Bid for EMI  —  Sony and BMG, onetime partners in one of the music world's biggest mergers, are teaming up again on a bid to buy — and then divide between themselves — some of the recorded music assets of EMI, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks between the companies.
Jim Romenesko:
Freelance Writer Says He Was Stiffed By The Daily  —  On November 26, The Daily published freelancer Robert Johnson's story, “Iran's Speed Demons.”  —  One week later, Rupert Murdoch & Co. announced they were pulling the plug on the iPad publication.  —  Johnson wonders if they also decided then to stop paying their freelancers.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Shop for ebooks at the grocery store, with new txtr/ReaderLink partnership  —  In an attempt to compete with Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Berlin-based ebook company txtr and U.S. print book distributor ReaderLink have partnered to sell ebooks through new outlets: grocery stores, mass merchants …
Jim Romenesko:
Post-Gazette editor protests police department's news release with reporters' questions  —  The Pittsburgh Police Department on Sunday put out a press release that included two Post-Gazette reporters' email to the department with several questions for story they were working on.  —  Diane Richard
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Atlantic Media's business site Quartz hits a milestone: more than 1 million visitors  —  Quartz, Atlantic Media's fledgling digital media brand devoted to global business and finance, is set to announce today that it reached 1.4 million unique visitors in December.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Capital New York
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
BuzzFeed parties on with launch of Hollywood site  —  Viral media beast BuzzFeed has already shaken up news coverage in New York and Washington.  Now, the site is taking its playbook to the west coast where it aspires to remake reporting on ditzes, directors and other fixtures of Hollywood.
 
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Nancy Grace, CNN Reach Settlement In ‘Vodka Mom’ Lawsuit
Discussion: The Huffington Post
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Journalists excluded from Indian gang-rape trial
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Roku strikes Time Warner Cable deal, wants to be your next cable box
Rob Williams / The Independent:
Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall denies sex abuse charges
Discussion: Channel 4, itn.co.uk, Telegraph, Guardian and BBC
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Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Lance Armstrong ‘could admit to doping claims’ as Sunday Times sues for £1m
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Chinese journalists strike against censorship
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Visual storytelling tool for journalists Storyplanet aiming for 2013 public launch
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
BuzzFeed, Andrew Sullivan, and the Future of Making Money in Journalism
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Don't say display ads are dead: ESPN shows there's life in an old format
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and AdExchanger
Pete Brook / Wired:
Extinction Tourism: Work at a Newspaper While You Still Can