Mediagazer: NYT reporters sued for gun owners' addresses (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

1:40 PM ET, January 9, 2013

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Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Lance Armstrong to give ‘no-holds-barred’ interview with Oprah Winfrey amid confession claims — Lance Armstrong, the disgraced US cyclist stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year, will breaks his silence on the doping allegations that destroyed his career in a “no-holds-barred” interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey.

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

BUSINESS INSIDER SECRETS REVEALED! — A couple of years ago, I revealed a lot of internal information about Business Insider—the sort of information that most companies paranoically guard for a litany of stated reasons. — I said that, if nothing horrible happened, I might one day do the same thing again.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

News International payout to Cherie Blair and 130 others for phone hacking — James Nesbitt and Tamzin Outhwaite among those who have settled at a cost to the company expected to run into millions — News International has agreed to settle 130 civil damages claims for News of the World phone hacking …

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 …

David Bauder / Associated Press: NBC execs say it's not a 'shoot-'em-up' network

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Even a military judge recognizes what many progressives denied: Bradley Manning was mistreated — The ruling is but the latest repudiation of claims from Obama supporters that Manning was treated fairly and justly … Few if any articles that I've written produced as much backlash …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @freedomofpress and New York Times

David Dishneau / Associated Press:
Judge: Army GI in WikiLeaks illegally punished

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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Times Internet CEO Satyan Gajwani Discusses His Company's New Alliance With Gawker Media — Gawker Media, which already has a presence in eight countries, is expanding its international reach even further. Nick Denton, the founder of the company and blog network, announced yesterday …

Discussion: Times Internet Corporate Blog

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Gawker expands into India as part of Nick Denton's plan for world domination

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT reporters sued for gun owners' addresses — Jo Craven McGinty and two other New York Times reporters sued for New York gun owners' addresses in 2010, Joe Pompeo reports. The New York City Police Department gave her gun owners' names, as it did to Gawker reporter John Cook …

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Erik Wemple:
Gawker publishes N.Y.C. gun-permit holders

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Jim Romenesko:

Village Voice Media sells SF Weekly and Seattle Weekly — Seattle Weekly has been sold by Village Voice Media to Sound Publishing, which puts out 36 daily, weekly and monthly community newspapers and magazines in western Washington and northern Oregon. The purchase price wasn't disclosed.

Discussion: The Daily Weekly and SF Appeal

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Editors upset at government's change of mind over Leveson statute — Hacked Off is living up to its title. It is hacked off about what it regards as the “subversion of Leveson”. It does not trust the government and has therefore published its own draft bill.

Discussion: The Telegraph and London Evening Standard

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Accidental recording creates civic crisis in Connecticut — The Norwalk, Conn., city council defeated a resolution Tuesday evening chastising the city's mayor and corporation counsel for actions they've taken against a reporter who says she accidentally recorded the mayor during a public meeting last June.

Janet Morrissey / Fortune:

The beginning of the end for Hulu? — The video streaming service is losing its charismatic CEO at a spectacularly bad time. — FORTUNE — It came as little surprise when Hulu's maestro Jason Kilar confirmed long-time speculation that he would be leaving his post as the video streaming giant's chief executive.

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Timothy Noah / The New Republic:

How the New York Times Screwed Martin Luther King Jr. — Harvey Shapiro would have likely preferred to be remembered as a poet, and perhaps also as one of the better editors of the New York Times Book Review. But his Jan. 7 Times obituary plays up another aspect of his life of which I was previously unaware.

Discussion: New York Times

Benjamin R. Freed / DCist:

David Gregory's Ammunition Prop to Be Investigated by D.C. Attorney General — D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan will decide whether or not Meet the Press host David Gregory will be charged over a segment last month in which Gregory used a 30-bullet magazine as a prop.

Discussion: TVNewser, Washington Post, Mediaite, Politico and Washington Times