Mediagazer: Self-publishing site Lulu drops DRM on ebooks, sort of (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

4:15 PM ET, January 9, 2013

Top News:

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: PandoDaily

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:

The Biggest New Media Trend Is Analytics Transparency — If we've seen one trend in the past few years across digital media (besides large-scale growth), it's a transparency that is often lacking in the corporate boardroom culture of major tradtional media brands.

Guardian:

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, New York Times and New York Magazine

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: Huffington Post UK, The Week, ABCNEWS, Guardian, Financial Times, Telegraph, Quartz, Sky News, New York Magazine, BBC 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, The Daily Beast and Prof Chris Daly's Blog

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 …

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

White House Responds To Petition To Deport Piers Morgan — The White House responded to the petition to deport Piers Morgan in a statement defending freedom of speech on Wednesday. Morgan has made several demands for tougher gun control in the wake of the Newtown shooting, and clashed with gun advocates on his CNN show.

Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and @emilysteel

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

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

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Self-publishing site Lulu drops DRM on ebooks, sort of — Self-publishing site Lulu will stop offering DRM as an option on ebooks created through its site — though ebooks created on Lulu and sold through other retailers, like Amazon, will still be subject to DRM.

Discussion: Good E-Reader and Lulu Blog

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, Dana Rubinstein reports. The New York City Police Department gave her gun owners' names, as it did to Gawker reporter John Cook …