Mediagazer: British giant bulks up in NYC (Judith Messina/Crain's New York Business)

7:50 AM ET, February 1, 2013

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Chinese Hackers Targeted Wall Street Journal Computers — The Wall Street Journal said Thursday that its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspaper's China coverage. — The infiltration at the Journal …

Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News Also Got Hacked by China, Are Important

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
China blacks out CNN International

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AFP:
China: claims of hacking NY Times ‘groundless’

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
News websites falling victim to online hackers

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AdAge:

TV Networks Have No ‘Birth Right’ to Carriage: Time Warner Cable Boss — Subscribers See 'Too Many Networks I Don't Watch,' Britt Says — Time Warner Cable, the second- largest U.S. cable-TV operator, plans to keep scrutinizing and pressuring small cable channels even though they aren't the problem …

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Anthony Crupi / Adweek:

Time Warner Cable Boss Glenn Britt Defends MSO's Pricey Sports Rights Deals — Time Warner Cable chairman and CEO Glenn Britt on Thursday told investors that the operator's RSN strategy is designed to minimize costs in the long haul. — Speaking on TWC's fourth quarter earnings call …

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable Falls as Forecast Misses Analysts' Estimates

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Time Warner Cable chief defends pricey sports deals

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Ed Koch's grave marker will be inscribed with journalist Daniel Pearl's last words — Former New York City mayor Ed Koch died Friday morning at the age of 88. He plans to be buried in Manhattan, the three-term mayor said in 2008. And his headstone at Trinity Church Cemetery will evoke …

Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Beast

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

CNET loses CES awards following Dish Hopper controversy; DVR named ‘Best In Show’ — The Hopper with Sling will be named co-winner of ‘Best In Show’ alongside official CNET choice the Razer Edge — The Consumer Electronics Association has issued a press release awarding the Dish Hopper …

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
CES severs ties with CBS over Dish Hopper coverage

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

New Way to Deliver a Drama: All 13 Episodes in One Sitting — Television producers have turned bingeing, hoarding and overeating into successful prime-time shows for years, but now they are having to turn their attention to another example of overindulgence — TV watching.

Erik Maza / WWD:

W Magazine to Reduce Frequency — DOWN TWO: It appears even healthy ad pages aren't enough to keep magazines from reducing frequency. Condé Nast said Thursday it was scaling back W magazine, which had been performing relatively well among advertisers, to 10 issues a year from a monthly.

Janko Roettgers / paidContent:

New numbers show: Microsoft moves more media than you might think — Everyone was focused on the fact that consumers still buy plenty of DVDs and Blu-ray discs when the NPD Group published its 2012 Home Video Data report this week. It's true: 61 percent of all U.S.-based transactional home …

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

London Cop Gets 15 Months in News Corp. Tabloid Bribery Case — A London police detective was sentenced to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information about a phone-hacking probe in 2010 to News Corp.'s News of the World tabloid, which was being investigated.

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Bloomberg:

Apple TV Said to Start Carrying HBO App Later This Year — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in negotiations to start carrying Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans. — Cable and satellite subscribers who pay for HBO …

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Judith Messina / Crain's New York Business:

British giant bulks up in NYC — Mail Online, the British celebrity and entertainment news site, is making a major push into the U.S. advertising market. Owned by the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail, the four-year-old site is already the third most popular newspaper site in the U.S., with 20 million unique visitors a month.

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

New Yorker to Launch New Online Verticals — The New Yorker, which has launched several new Web channels over the past year, is continuing its digital expansion with the launch of two new channels—one dedicated to Science and Technology and the other to Business—in the coming months.

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

“Washington Post” Civil War Breaks Into Public View — Conservative senator quotes conservative blogger. Old-school reporter fights back. … Senator Jim Inhofe cited a blog post by conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin during the confirmation hearing for Secretary …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Trump, ‘evaluating’ a purchase of ‘The New York Times,’ thinks he'd probably fire Krugman — Donald Trump hasn't said much about Joe Hagan's recent scoop that the mogul is angling to buy The New York Times, other than a brief follow-up interview in which Trump allowed a spokesperson …