Mediagazer: A.J. Daulerio Out As Gawker Editor; John Cook to Step Up (Joe Coscarelli/New York Magazine)

7:45 PM ET, January 10, 2013

Top News:

A.J. Daulerio Out As Gawker Editor; John Cook to Step Up — Gawker editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio will no longer run the site after a year on the job, Daily Intelligencer has learned. Daulerio jumped across the Gawker Media network from Deadspin and took over for Remy Stern at the start of 2012.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Adweek, The New York Observer, The Wrap, FishbowlNY and Twitchy

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Every Tech Journalist's Worst Nightmare — At 4:05 PM on Wednesday, Dish Networks notified its Twitter followers that it had been chosen as a finalist for CNET's “Best of CES” awards for its new DVR product. This was not a surprise — the Hopper was given a best-of award by nearly every publication …

Digits:

Dish Recorder Snubbed for CNET Award Over CBS Legal Scuffle — Perhaps it could be called the day CBS skipped over Dish. — Dish Network 's infamous ad-skipping digital video recorder was dropped from consideration for a CNET award because of a legal battle underway between Dish and CNET's parent …

Discussion: Reuters, The Verge and Wall Street Journal

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon “AutoRip” Service Goes Live — Giving Customers Free MP3s For CDs Purchased On Amazon As Far Back As 1998 (Hands-On) - Amazon is today introducing a new service called Amazon AutoRip, which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazon since the launch of its Music Store back in 1998.

Discussion: Amazon.com, Media Decoder, AllThingsD, Fast Company, Pocket-lint, Lifehacker and parislemon

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: Amazon Should AutoRip All The Books You've Bought To Your Kindle

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Newseum says it laid off 16 — The Newseum says it “eliminated 16 positions” this week. — The Gannett blog reported the Freedom Forum, which funds the Newseum, “laid off 20% of approximately 150 employees at the Washington museum and other programs financed by the foundation”:

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Jim Hopkins / Gannett Blog:
Freedom Forum paid new CEO Duff $1.6M in 2011, documents show, amid signs of more fiscal distress

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Homicide Tracking Site Expanding to Chicago — Homicide Watch, the Washington, D.C., Web site that tracks murders, has found another crime-ridden city to cover. — The Chicago Sun-Times is partnering with Homicide Watch's co-founders, Laura and Chris Amico, to launch a Chicago edition.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Beats' New Music Subscription Service Gets a New Boss: Topspin's Ian Rogers — There are a ton of digital music services out there, with more on the way. — So how will Beats Electronics, the headphone maker, stand out when it rolls out its own version this year? — The company won't spell that out quite yet.

Discussion: Media Decoder, GigaOM, Fast Company, FISTFULAYEN, Digital Media Wire, 9to5Mac, App Advice, The Next Web and Rolling Stone

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning? — The extremist prosecution of Manning, accused of “aiding and abetting al-Qaida”, poses a real threat to US press freedom — There are numerous travesties defining the ongoing prosecution …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, paidContent, New York Times, Techdirt, Daily Kos, Boing Boing, Business Insider, Capital New York, The Huffington Post, The New Yorker Blog and Pressing Issues

Guardian:

Police officer found guilty of trying to sell information to News of the World — Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn offered details of phone-hacking investigation to tabloid in return for payment — A senior counter-terrorism detective has been found guilty of trying to sell information to the News of the World newspaper.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Daily Mail, London Evening Standard, ITV News, Sky News, Telegraph and @tom_watson

Jim Romenesko:

New York Times received 1,644 applications for 13 summer intern positions — After posting the Oregonian's summer internship rejection letter, which noted that the paper received nearly 200 applications, I wondered about the numbers from other newspapers and fired off some emails. Here's what came back:

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time Inc. Prepares for Layoffs — Time Inc. staff are on eggshells as they await news of layoffs and smaller bonuses than in years past as the company faces declining revenue. — CEO Laura Lang, in a memo yesterday, has already told employees she would eliminate the usual 3 percent merit increase …

Discussion: New York Post

Erik Wemple:

A future for news at high-brow restaurants? — Leland Schwartz is trying to feed news to a tough crowd. He knows that they're on top of the goings-on in Washington. That's because they're the ones who are influencing the goings-on in Washington. — They're diners at the Old Ebbitt Grill …

Discussion: Washington Post, Poynter and All

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Henry Blodget isn't telling us the most important thing about Business Insider — Business Insider founder Henry Blodget has pulled aside the curtain — or the kimono, as he likes to call it — to tell us all about how well the site is doing, courtesy of a presentation he put together for Folio magazine.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, The Corsair, PandoDaily and Business Insider

Chicago Business Journal:

Warrant issued for former Tribune executive … Stephanie Pater missed a second scheduled court appearance in as many weeks, and so a warrant has been issued for her arrest, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. — The Tribune said Pater sent an email to an official at the court saying …