Mediagazer: Chinese Officials Pledge to Loosen Controls Over Embattled Newspaper (New York Times)

3:15 PM ET, January 9, 2013

Top News:

Bradley Manning trial delayed until June after sentence reduction granted — Judge reschedules former US soldier's trial to give more time for review of classified information related to WikiLeaks case — A military judge has pushed back the trial of Bradley Manning …

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

Discussion: New York Magazine and Fast Company

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Business Insider Traffic 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.

Discussion: Adweek and PandoDaily

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.

Discussion: Quartz, Yahoo! News, Huffington Post UK, The Week, Guardian, Financial Times, Telegraph, Sky News, New York Magazine, BBC, Inside TV and Softpedia News

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

New York Times:

Chinese Officials Pledge to Loosen Controls Over Embattled Newspaper — GUANGZHOU, China — Propaganda officials in the southern province of Guangdong have agreed to loosen some controls over an embattled newspaper whose struggle against censorship has galvanized free-speech advocates across China …

Discussion: China Real Time Report, The New Yorker Blog, Prof Chris Daly's Blog and The Daily Beast

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Capital New York, Business Insider and The Rockland County Times

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

Discussion: The Lede, Gawker, Stories I'd like to see and CNYcentral.com

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: London Evening Standard and The Telegraph

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Alasdair Milne, former BBC director general, dies aged 82 — Milne's five-year tenure at BBC featured rows with Thatcher government over coverage of miners' strike and Northern Ireland — Alasdair Milne, the former BBC director general who was forced out following a series of rows with the Thatcher government, has died aged 82.

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Redbox Instant by Verizon launching out of beta before the end of March — Streaming movie service Redbox Instant by Verizon will fully launch to the public before the end of the first quarter, the venture's CEO said today at a CES 2013 breakfast. — As we've mentioned before …

Discussion: GigaOM and The Verge

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

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.

Discussion: CNNMoney.com

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 Voice also sold SF Weekly …

Discussion: The Daily Weekly, SF Appeal and Slog