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11:50 AM ET, January 11, 2013

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Katherine Bagley / InsideClimate News:
New York Times Dismantles Its Environment Desk  —  Times says demise of the nine-person team, created in 2009, won't affect climate coverage.  —  The New York Times will close its environment desk in the next few weeks and assign its seven reporters and two editors to other departments.
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Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Major Shakeout Looms for Top New York Times Editors  —  The next two weeks are going to get tense inside the headquarters of the New York Times.  —  Last month, executive editor Jill Abramson told the staff she'd have to cut 30 positions from the news division to buffer against financial losses …
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 …
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Guardian:
Times editor not expected to be appointed until next week at earliest  —  Meeting this week between paper's independent directors and John Witherow did not result in his immediate confirmation  —  A new editor of the Times is not expected to be announced until next week at the earliest …
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
The New York Times' Plan to Save the Banner Ad  —  Like many publications, The New York Times has a banner ad problem.  The problem is this: the Web is littered with banners and new computer-driven methods of buying discrete audiences is putting even further pressure on the display ad market.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Thanks:@steverubel
Sara Morrison / CJR:
Maura Johnston's new song  —  The former Village Voice music editor is back with a magazine app  —  After Maura Johnston was let go from the Village Voice in September, she decided that, after six years as a full-time writer, it was time to “prove myself on a grand scale.”
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Fleet Street editors call for charitable trust to oversee new independent newspaper watchdog  —  Fleet Street editors are calling for a special charitable trust to be set up to oversee the new independent newspaper watchdog demanded by Lord Justice Leveson.  The proposal has been advanced …
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Better than Nielsen: Twitter breaks down TV behavior by demographics, device, and genre  —  UK statistics show that tweeting about ‘Homeland’ is not like tweeting about ‘Downton Abbey’ or ‘X Factor’  —  Twitter has released a twenty-page booklet for advertisers on trends in television viewing and Twitter use in the UK.
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Cyndi Stivers / CJR:
Huey, Luce, and the news  —  At year-end, Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey quietly announced plans to head to a fellowship at Harvard after an 11-year run (six in the top job) on the Mount Olympus of magazine journalism.  On his way up, he ran Fortune, coauthored Sam Walton's autobiography …
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
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.
Nadja Brandt / Bloomberg:
Condos Replace Newsrooms as U.S. Papers Sell Real Estate  —  Newspaper owners, struggling with plunging demand and advertising spending at a six-decade low, are squeezing money out of the assets they do have with rising value: buildings and land.  —  A.H. Belo Corp. (AHC) …
Guardian:
Guardian, Telegraph and FT post modest sales rises in December  —  Newspapers perform resiliently, with i reporting biggest decline of 3.66% month on month - but year-on-year sales up 31%  —  The Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Telegraph were the only daily national newspapers to see month-on-month sales increases in December.
Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk and Media Week
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Why Amazon Won't Give You Free Digital Copies of Your Movies and Books  —  Amazon announced Thursday morning that any customer who purchases a CD will receive a free digital copy of that album.  The offer is valid not only on present and future purchases, but on any one of 50,000 CDs purchased from the retailer since 1998.
Discussion: paidContent
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Pay TV will shrink for first time in history, study says cable watching peaked in 2012
Discussion: GigaOM
Associated Press:
Censorship Row Shows China's Tight Grip On Media
Discussion: Poynter and New York Times
Michael Meyer / CJR:
Unfinished business  —  A new biography of photojournalist Tim …
Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!:
Redditors Accuse BuzzFeed of Photo Theft
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
As Grantland Grows Up, It Looks to New York Magazine as a Model
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Homicide Tracking Site Expanding to Chicago
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Matt Yoder / Awful Announcing:
CNN moves forward with Bleacher Report replacing Sports Illustrated
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time Inc. Prepares for Layoffs
Discussion: New York Post
Chicago Business Journal:
Warrant issued for former Tribune executive
Jim Romenesko:
New York Times received 1,644 applications for 13 summer intern positions
Discussion: Gannett Blog
Erik Wemple:
A future for news at high-brow restaurants?
Discussion: Washington Post and All
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Beats' New Music Subscription Service Gets a New Boss: Topspin's Ian Rogers
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Henry Blodget isn't telling us the most important thing about Business Insider
Discussion: eMedia Vitals, CJR and The Corsair
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Newseum says it laid off 16
Discussion: Gannett Blog and Gannett Blog
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

 
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