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9:00 AM ET, January 26, 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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers”  —  A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation - they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET's parent company, CBS.  —  I wasn't all that interested in the story at the time.
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 Says Its 3-Year Relationship With Palin Is Over  —  “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 asked the day before.  —  Fox News has indeed parted ways with Ms. Palin …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Buyout Situation Still Unclear  —  Although the New York Times buyout deadline of 5 p.m. Thursday has come and gone, the situation remains fluid.  Winnie O'Kelley, deputy editor for Business Day, confirmed to The Huffington Post on Friday afternoon that she is still considering whether …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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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 …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Rising TV Fees Mean All Viewers Pay to Keep Sports Fans Happy  —  For a glimpse of how out of control sports bidding wars have become, look no further than your cable television bill.  —  Time Warner Cable subscribers in Southern California will eventually see their monthly bills increase thanks …
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
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 …
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: BuzzFeed and Kirk LaPointe's …
 
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Trust rules out bid to recoup from George Entwistle payout
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
What Kind of Anchorman Will Jake Tapper Be? 'They Don't Want Me to be Ron Burgundy'
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Vincent Chang / CNET:
Pirate Bay documentary to debut next month
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Profiles of Teresa Ribera, Henna Virkkunen, and Ekaterina Zaharieva, the three incoming EU commissioners in charge of key tech policy areas into 2029

Franz Lidz / New York Times:
How researchers used AI in tandem with drones to find 303 previously uncharted Nazca Lines in Peru, almost doubling the number that had been mapped as of 2020

Michel Martin / NPR:
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