Mediagazer: The Atlantic Wire taps Sencha to launch a new HTML5 iPad Web app fit for the digital era (Paul Sawers/The Next Web)

Ken Layne / The Awl:

SF Weekly, Seattle Weekly Latest Victims Of Alt-Weekly Newspaper Industry — Staffers and free-lancers at two West Coast alt-weeklies are nervously awaiting whatever unpleasant news comes with the sale of those papers to local conglomerates. Like all of the once-mighty urban weekly papers …

Discussion: The Snitch, NetNewsCheck Latest, LA Observed, Eater National and AAN

Discussion: SF Appeal, The Daily Weekly, Slog and The Huffington Post

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: PandoDaily

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: The New Yorker Blog and The Daily Beast

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 …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

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

Cory Bergman / Inside:

Why Twitter's army of ‘Mechanical Turks’ will not conquer breaking news — Twitter revealed this week that it uses Mechanical Turk — a croudsourced pool of people — as an innovative way to help identify and classify search queries as soon as they're trending.

Discussion: Digiday, GigaOM, Softpedia News and VentureBeat

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Wired EIC Scott Dadich Names New Editorial Team — Wired's new EIC Scott Dadich is settling into the magazine's San Francisco office, where he moved over the holidays, and his new role on the masthead. And as part of the transition, he has named a new editorial team.

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.

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

At Huffington Post, everything old is new again: All reporters get blogs — Once upon a time, The Huffington Post was a left-wing, Drudge-like aggregator with a stable of celebrity columns that eventually metastasized into a sort-of group-blog empire for unpaid “experts” and “citizen journalists.”

Ben Kersey / The Verge:

JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library — Online digital library JSTOR will begin offering free access to its catalogue of journals, papers, and books. The Register & Read program will now allow individuals to register for the service …

Discussion: Inside Higher Ed

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 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: Fast Company, The Week, Quartz, ABCNEWS, Sky News, Huffington Post UK, Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, New York Magazine and Softpedia News

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: Lulu Blog and Good E-Reader

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

A Tale From Gore's Quest for Current TV — I left one out. — Last week, in an article detailing Al Gore's negotiations with cable and satellite carriers about the sale of his cable channel Current TV, I wrote, “Mr. Gore, who lost his last big legal argument — the one in 2000 — succeeded.”

Discussion: mediabistro.com and Stories I'd like to see

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 …