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1:45 PM ET, February 2, 2013

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Washington Post:
Chinese hackers suspected in attack on The Post's computers  —  A sophisticated cyberattack targeted The Washington Post in an operation that resembled intrusions against other major American news organizations and that company officials suspect was the work of Chinese hackers, people familiar with the incident said.
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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Washington Post Joins List of News Media Hacked by the Chinese  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The question is no longer who has been hacked.  It's who hasn't?  —  The Washington Post can be added to the growing list of American news organizations whose computers have been penetrated by Chinese hackers.
Discussion: AllThingsD, The Next Web and The Verge
Jill Goldsmith / Variety:
News Corp. names two more execs to publishing biz  —  Healy to help fashion strategic direction  —  News Corp. Friday named Anoushka Healy, current group managing editor of The Times and Sunday Times in London, as chief strategy officer of its new global publishing entity once it splits in two later this year.
PandoDaily:
Sources: Ziff Davis is close to buying IGN  —  It's no secret that News Corp. has been trying to sell gaming portal IGN for some time.  It even floated an aspirational price to the Wall Street Journal: $100 million.  —  We've heard all sorts of rumors about who the buyer could be since that article …
Discussion: AllThingsD
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Aaron Kushner's virtuous circles  —  Aaron Kushner is the anti-Advance.  —  Tomorrow, Advance makes digital origami of the Syracuse Post-Standard, going to three days a week of print (good Poynter inside view of the change).  Its strategy: addition by subtraction.
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
How two scientists are using the New York Times archives to predict the future  —  Researchers at Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict future disease outbreaks …
Discussion: newsplexer, The Verge and Tom Simonite
Bora Zivkovic / Scientific American:
Commenting threads: good, bad, or not at all.  —  Proposed alternative title: “This post is not about climate change” … A couple of weeks ago, an article was published in Science about online science communication (nothing new there, really, that we have not known for a decade, but academia is slow to catch up).
Discussion: PandoDaily and Poynter
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
YOU On Demand Offers Films On VOD In China Weeks After They Debut In Theaters  —  Studio and theater owners who wonder what would happen to sales if movies are rushed to home video should keep an eye on what's happening in China.  Warner Bros has begun an experiment to stay ahead of DVD pirates …
China Internet Watch:
74% Chinese Netizens Acquire News Online  —  The latest Global Communication Market Report from the British Ofcom made a comprehensive research on consumers' consumption and attitude toward communication services and products in the global market.  —  The Overview of China  —  1. Population and Economic Elements
Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:
Exclusive: Eric Schmidt Unloads on China in New Book … Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.  —  Corporate Intelligence reviewed preliminary galleys of Schmidt's new book, “The New Digital Age,” (Random House) which debuts in April.
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
Watch out, Atlantic — the New Yorker is gunning for you  —  We've argued before, The Atlantic is one of the traditional media players that is most worth paying attention to when it comes to the ongoing disruptive effects of the web — the venerable magazine has managed to turn itself around financially …
Discussion: Adweek
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Tinkerer-in-Chief Bolts Times: Joe Sexton's Innovative, Profane Reign  —  “Do s**t you're not supposed to do.”  That's how Joe Sexton, who as New York Times sports editor has been behind some of the paper's most groundbreaking recent work, describes his guiding philosophy.
Discussion: Gothamist
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Ed Koch, the newspaper columnist  —  Ed Koch, the former three-term mayor of New York who died of gongestive heart failure this morning at the age of 88, will most likely be remember first and foremost for his political skills and his identification with an era of redemption for New York City.
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Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Magazine
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Gravity Fully Launches Its Content Personalization Tools, Making Them Available To Any Publisher
Discussion: PandoDaily and GigaOM
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
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