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3:10 AM ET, December 19, 2013

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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Hackers break into Washington Post servers  —  Hackers broke into The Washington Post's servers and gained access to employee user names and passwords, marking at least the third intrusion over the past three years, company officials said Wednesday.  —  The extent of the loss of company data …
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 …
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 …
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.
Michael Rondon / Folio:
Magazine Closures Continue to Fall In 2013  —  Launches outnumber closures 3 to 1.  —  The magazine market stabilized in 2013 as launches outnumbered closures by more than 3 to 1, according to a year-end report by MediaFinder.  —  With 185 new magazines in 2013, there were 18-percent fewer launches …
Discussion: Canadian Magazines
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Forbes names Avik Roy opinion editor  —  Forbes has tapped Avik Roy, the author of its online healthcare blog, to serve as Opinion Editor for the magazine.  —  The appointment, which Forbes is expected to announce later today, comes ahead of an expansion of the magazine's contributors …
Discussion: Talking Biz News and Forbes
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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Nina Ognianova / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Turkey—world's top press jailer once more
Discussion: @joelcpj
Al Jazeera English:
Over 200 journalists still jailed worldwide
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.
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: FishbowlDC
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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Guardian:
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Time Warner Cable app comes to Kindle Fire — sorry, Apple TV
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Times publisher reports pre-tax losses of £24m
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time Inc. out of Forbes race
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News of the World managing editor 'didn't know of Milly Dowler hacking'
Reuters:
Al Jazeera weighs bid for $1 billion Turkish pay-TV firm Digiturk: sources
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

The Linux Foundation:
A survey of 501 organizations globally estimates organizations contribute $7.7B annually to open source software and 86% of contribution value is employee labor
 
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