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9:20 PM ET, January 25, 2013

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Tim Carmody / The Verge:
CNET forbidden from reviewing Aereo following CBS-Dish controversy  —  Editorial policy after CES Awards nightmare leads to fancy footwork by news team  —  This week, live-TV startup Aereo released an update to its Roku app, adding a new visual interface and enabling full control with the Roku remote.
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Jim Romenesko:
At CNET, ‘morale is plummeting and people are pissed off’  — A disclosure attached to a CNET story posted on Thursday.  —  There had been hints around CNET that the edict might be overturned.  During a meeting last Friday, Reviews editor-in-chief Lindsey Turrentine sounded optimistic.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Fox News and Sarah Palin Part Ways  —  5:53 p.m. |  Updated “Sarah, where are you?” one of Sarah Palin's 3.4 million Facebook fans wrote on her wall last week.  “Has your contract with Fox ended?” another fan had asked the day before.  —  Yes, Ms. Palin's contract with Fox News has ended, and no, it is not being renewed.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times' Pilhofer: 'There's a lot of institutional memory walking out the door'  —  The New York Times' round of buyouts that ended Thursday landed heavily on some of the organization's digital leaders: Jonathan Landman, who took charge of the paper's digital newsroom in 2005 …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Why publishers should follow the Verge-HuffPost aggregation dustup  —  It might be hard to understand why staffers at tech site The Verge complained so loudly about a Huffington Post “linkout” that sent readers to a Verge feature.  After all, isn't the Web built on such selfless acts of curation?
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's … and BuzzFeed
New York Business Journal:
American Media teams with USA Today on magazines  —  American Media Inc., publisher of “National Enquirer” and “Men's Fitness” is joining with newspaper USA Today to publish 12 special magazines using a “Best Of” theme in 2013.  Editorial will be developed by both companies with the goal of providing …
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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:   Timehop Hooks Up With USA Today to Deliver Stories From the Past
Erik Wemple:
Roger Ailes biography sparks an Internet shopping spree  —  Gabriel Sherman should be flattered.  People seem to believe that the New York Magazine writer's pending, unauthorized biography of Roger Ailes will be a big deal.  Look at all the attention that's come his way since he started working on it:
Discussion: Inside Cable News
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Ex-Officer for C.I.A. Sentenced to 30 Months in Leak Case  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first Central Intelligence Agency officer to face prison for disclosing classified information, was sentenced on Friday to 30 months in prison by a judge at the federal courthouse here.
Jim Romenesko:
Boston Globe considers stand-alone digital subscription to Ideas section  —  A Romenesko reader sent the above screenshot of a Boston Globe survey.  The paper's Ideas section was launched in 2002.  Founding editor Alex Star described its mission this way in 2003: “The section is trying …
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
What Kind of Anchorman Will Jake Tapper Be?  'They Don't Want Me to be Ron Burgundy'  —  Former ABC ace Jake Tapper, who debuted on CNN Tuesday, says that his being passed over — twice — as ‘This Week’ anchor was not the reason he left the network.  —  When ABC chose CNN's Christiane Amanpour …
Discussion: mediabistro.com
Digits:
Could Cord Cutters (and Lena Dunham Fans) One Day Get a Crack at HBO?  —  It's a cord-cutter's dream: the chance to get HBO without having to pay for the full television package.  Comments by HBO's new chief executive, Richard Plepler, on Thursday night suggest that while a standalone HBO broadband offering …
Discussion: The Consumerist
Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter:
‘Rise of the Drones’ Is Mostly a PBS Infomercial for the Military Defense Industry  —  The widely-acclaimed PBS program, NOVA, premiered a documentary on unmanned aerial vehicles or drones.  The documentary, “Rise of the Drones,” was produced to explore how the technology is revolutionizing warfare …
 
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Andy Meek / BuzzFeed:
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Henry McDonald / Guardian:
No prosecution in Martin O'Hagan murder case
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
What digital magazines can learn from ebook publishers
Discussion: ReadWrite
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
NY Times Public Editor: If It Wasn't For Social Media, You Wouldn't Know Who Our Reporters Voted For
Discussion: NewsBusters
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Trust rules out bid to recoup from George Entwistle payout
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Pirate Bay documentary to debut next month
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
For interested buyers looking at the numbers of Tribune newspapers, one bright spot will stand out: the price.
Discussion: LA Observed
Jim Romenesko:
Cox Media Group's new website dubbed a ‘conservative Huffington Post’
Discussion: News & Views …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Sweet: Hola lets you use Hulu, Pandora, Netflix, CBS, Fox, BBC iPlayer TV, and iTV from any country