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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Second worst year on record for jailed journalists — For the second consecutive year, Turkey was the world's leading jailer of journalists, followed closely by Iran and China. The number of journalists in prison globally decreased from a year earlier but remains close to historical highs.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
71 journalists killed in 2013 ‘in connection with their work’ — In 2013, 71 journalists were killed in connection with their work, some 20% fewer deaths than the year before, according to the Paris-based press freedom body, Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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Reporters Without Borders, Columbia Journalism Review and Kirk LaPointe's …
Nina Ognianova / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Turkey—world's top press jailer once more
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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
The best and worst media errors and corrections in 2013 — Error of the Year: ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi report — As is often the case with Error of the Year, the award is given partly because of the mistake itself, and partly because of the mistake's fallout.
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Capital New York, @katzish, @malonebarry, The Huffington Post, @stancarey, Gawker, @flashboy, @nickbaumann, @jilldlawrence, @boyreporter, @rosiegray, @mmfa, @kimzetter, @pgourevitch, @edyong209, @brendannyhan, @jamesrbuk, @moorehn, @buzzfeedandrew, @rocza, @dailynewshack and Pressing Issues, Thanks:@craigsilverman
John Eggerton / Multichannel.com:
FCC unanimously supports plan to eliminate sports blackout rules — FCC Approves NPRM On Sports Blackout Rule — Leagues Can Still Make Them Part of Negotiated Agreements — The FCC has voted unanimously to support a proposal to eliminate the sports blackout rules.
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Bloomberg, All, NBC News Business, Bolt Beat, SBNation.com, CBS Miami, @ajitpaifcc, @ajitpaifcc and TheHill
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
The New AllThingsD Has Hired Ken Li As Managing Editor — And now, for a little inside baseball... Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg have hired Kenneth Li, formerly of Reuters, to be managing editor at their new tech focused website. — Swisher and Mossberg are moving on from Dow Jones …
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FishbowlNY, @ashleyshuston, @mccarthyryanj, @edgecliffe, @antderosa and @fmanjoo
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
John Koblin Named Styles Reporter at Times — John Koblin has been named The New York Times' new styles reporter, a position previously held by Eric Wilson, who left the paper to become InStyle Magazine's fashion news director, WWD has learned. — Koblin, a reporter for sports blog Deadspin …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @richarddeitsch, @bennettmadison and @joepompeo
DealBook:
Brash Agent at William Morris Extends Reach in IMG Merger — Over the past two decades, Ari Emanuel has climbed — brashly, ruthlessly — into Hollywood's power center with one position in mind: king. — With a nighttime raid on his own office files at International Creative Management in 1995 …
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The Wrap, WWD Media Headlines, Forbes, Forbes, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, @deanemurphy and Capital New York
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:
2014 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award Winners Announced — CBS & NBC Honored for Breaking News Coverage CIR Wins Two Awards & ESPN Wins For the First Time — Fourteen winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards were announced today by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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TVNewser, LA Observed, @leezurik, The Center for …, TVSpy, Capital New York, Poynter and CBS Boston
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
‘Hatching Twitter’ Book Optioned For TV Show Development By Lionsgate — New York Times' columnist Nick Bilton's book Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal, on the dramatic origins of Twitter, has been optioned by Lionsgate for production as a TV show.
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Variety, Poynter, AllThingsD, The Wrap, Pocket-lint and WebProNews
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time Inc. out of Forbes race — Time Inc. Chief Content Officer Norm Pearlstine — Time Inc. is out of the running to buy Forbes, Media Ink has learned. — The publishing giant has been rumored to be a top contender. Forbes was recently put on the block and Deutsche Bank …
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Hunter Walk:
$400 for The Information Is About What's Missing, Not What's There — What are we, less than two week's into Jessica Lessin's launch of The Information? As a subscriber I've read every article and enjoyed the majority. I applaud Jessica for staking out a high pricepoint …
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@hunterwalk, @monkbent, @theinformation and @jason_kint
Hollywood Reporter:
Jeff Zucker has approached Jay Leno about new show on CNN, say sources — Jay Leno in Demand: CNN's Jeff Zucker Among Suitors — How in demand is Jay Leno? The most watched late-night host, who will be without a TV job in February when NBC transitions The Tonight Show to Jimmy Fallon, has been approached by some unlikely suitors.
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Mediaite, TVNewser, Gawker, Variety, New York Magazine and TheBlaze.com
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
The Conservative Media Arms Race Coming To An Internet Near You — Last week, with two high-profile acquisitions, a conservative media company catapulted itself from successful but largely below-the-radar company to a player with a portfolio that could make it the next news empire on the right.
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John McDermott / Digiday:
NPR's $10 Million Digital Bet — Even though its broadcast ratings remain steady, NPR (National Public Radio) is making moves to become more of a tech player in order to stay relevant in the mobile media era. That's why NPR is putting nearly $10 million toward the creation of a new Web and mobile platform due out in 2014.
Reuters:
Al Jazeera weighs bid for $1 billion Turkish pay-TV firm Digiturk: sources — (Reuters) - Television broadcaster Al Jazeera is considering a bid for a majority stake in Turkish digital pay-TV operator Digiturk, three banking sources aware of the plans said, in a move by the Qatar-backed broadcaster to further expand its footprint.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Hacked off a ‘destructive force’ in press regulation reform, says Maria Miller — Culture secretary says presence of campaign group at party negotiations was a ‘hijacking of government business’ — The culture secretary Maria Miller has described campaigning group Hacked Off's involvement …
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