Mediagazer: NBC Chief Says Strategy Worked, Talks Newtown Shootings, Notes Aging CW Audience (Tim Molloy/The Wrap)

2:57 AM ET, January 9, 2013

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Reuters gutting web infrastructure for ‘Reuters Next,’ its big online retooling — Over the past few years, the media arm of Thomson Reuters has been trying to polish its 160-year-old brand to a more contemporary sheen by recruiting A-list journalists and pundits and expanding into areas like blogging, Internet TV and magazines.

Discussion: Reuters and Talking Biz News

David Dishneau / The Big Story:

Judge: Army GI in WikiLeaks illegally punished — FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An Army private suspected of sending reams of classified documents to the secret-sharing WikiLeaks website was illegally punished at a Marine Corps brig and should get 112 days cut from any prison sentence he receives if convicted, a military judge ruled Tuesday.

Discussion: New York Magazine and Fast Company

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Does aiding WikiLeaks equal aiding Al Qaeda? — Prosecutors and lawyers for alleged WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning were back in court Tuesday, sparring over one of the central questions in his case: does giving sensitive government information to the media equate to aiding Al Qaeda?

Discussion: Wired, Guardian, VentureBeat, U.S. News, rt.com, Techdirt, Associated Press and The Independent

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

NBC Chief Says Strategy Worked, Talks Newtown Shootings, Notes Aging CW Audience — A year to the day after he had to announce that his network had had “a really bad fall,” NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt returned to the Television Critics Association winter press tour Sunday to talk …

Discussion: Associated Press and Speakeasy

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Was a Reporter's Role in a Government Prosecution a Reason to Recuse Him? — It's a generally accepted rule in journalism that if you're involved in a newsworthy situation, you shouldn't cover it. Most of the time that makes excellent sense. — The Times made an exception to that rule …

Discussion: Pressing Issues

Katie Heaney / BuzzFeed:

Why Are Athletes Accused Of Rape Often Glorified In The Media? — Steubenville is not special. That's not quite true: the alleged rape of a 16-year-old high school student by several Steubenville High students and football stars is unique for making the news in the first place.

Discussion: Poynter

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

With Funding For Svbtle, Dustin Curtis Wants To Build A Business In Long-Form Online Content — Dustin Curtis is a developer, designer, and blogger who has accomplished the rare feat of getting a blogging platform off the ground. Called Svbtle, it launched in early 2012 as a sort …

Discussion: Svbtle Featured and paidContent

James Poniewozik / TIME:

Reality TV Journalism: Alex Jones Shoots Off His Mouth on Piers Morgan — His eye-popping CNN interview with radio host Alex Jones Monday night combined two of Piers Morgan's great passions: gun-control policy and things that bring notoriety to Piers Morgan.

Discussion: Politico, Slate, RealClearPolitics Video Log, Guardian, Mashable! and Mediaite

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

How the TV Business Got Rich Off the Thing That Was Going to the Kill It: The Internet — In TV Land, the dinosaurs still rule the world — Surely, you've heard the news: The cable business is broken, the end of TV is nigh, and it's only a matter of time before the Internet does to television …

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The AP is selling ads in its tweets, but Twitter doesn't mind — The Associated Press is selling ad space in its 1.5 million-follower main Twitter feed. The wire service is sending out two sponsored tweets per day for the duration of this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Erik Wemple:

Gawker publishes N.Y.C. gun-permit holders — The past three weeks have seen a rash of claims that gun permit holders in Rockland and Westchester counties in New York state are now in danger because the Journal News published their names and addresses. — To which, Gawker says nonsense.

Discussion: Gawker, CNYcentral.com, Capital New York and Poynter

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Aereo will take its TV distruption to 22 new cities this spring — Aereo, which offers a way for people to watch and save TV shows on their mobile devices, has so far been available only in New York City. Now, Aereo is undertaking a rapid roll-out that will take it to over 90 million consumers in 22 new cities.