Mediagazer: Loyal Subscribers Keep Hobby Magazines Afloat (Christine Haughney/New York Times)

1:35 PM ET, December 30, 2013

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

As Time Inc. prepares to spinoff from Time Warner, newsrooms will begin to report to business executives — Time Inc. Is Preparing to Head Out on Its Own — Time Inc., the largest magazine publisher in the United States, with properties like People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune …

Al Jazeera:

Al Jazeera journalists arrested in Egypt — Egypt's security forces have arrested three Al Jazeera journalists in Cairo. Correspondent Peter Greste, producer Mohamed Fahmy and cameraman Mohamed Fawzy are being held in custody after arrested by security forces on Sunday evening.

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Brent Lang / The Wrap:

70 Journalists Killed in 2013, With Syria the Deadliest Country to Cover — Reporting from global hotspots is a deadly business. — Seventy journalists were killed in 2013, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, with the largest percentage of those death coming from Syria.

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Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Exclusive: Hacker took over BBC server, tried to ‘sell’ access on Christmas Day — (Reuters) - A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system.

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Scott Timberg / Al Jazeera America:

How the Village Voice and other alt-weeklies lost their voice in 2013 … LOS ANGELES — There was something else there, but you couldn't see it. There were notes coming from somewhere — maybe adding up to a melody — but you couldn't quite hear them. Growing up in and around this sprawling …

Discussion: @kbeninato, @joekeohane, @ajam and @maura

Min-Jeong Lee / Digits:

LG to Unveil webOS-Powered TV — South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. will soon take the veils off a television model that will run on the “webOS” operating system, highlighting its ambition of creating a prominent operating system for so-called smart TVs. — LG bought webOS …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Benghazi Investigation Confirms Paper's Early Reporting On Video's Role — NEW YORK — Following a months-long investigation, The New York Times reported Saturday that it had found no evidence that al-Qaeda, or any international terrorist group, was involved in the Sept. 11 …

Discussion: Fox News, The Informer, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Post Politics, The Huffington Post and The Daily Caller

Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:

New York City Losing Its Last Commercial Progressive Talk Radio Station — When WWRL 1600 AM turns into a Spanish-language music and talk radio station next week, New York City will lose its only remaining commercial progressive talk radio outlet. — Station employees first learned …

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Stephanie Murg / UnBeige:

NYT magazine's design director Arem Duplessis leaving to become creative director at Apple — Arem Duplessis Leaving NY Times Magazine for Apple — Your Sunday is about to get a lot less visually stimulating: Arem Duplessis has decided to leave his post as design director of The New York Times Magazine [muffled sobbing].

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Eugene L. Meyer / Bethesda Magazine:

An interview with the Washington Post publisher in the Post Bezos Era — Katharine Weymouth, seated beneath a photo of her famous grandmother, Katharine Graham (left), says she wished she had “understood earlier how critical technology is” to success in today's media world.

Discussion: @lucymarcus, @ravisomaiya and bookforum.com

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Loyal Subscribers Keep Hobby Magazines Afloat — Lance Prucnal's family, like others in the digital age, has canceled most of its newspaper and magazine subscriptions. — Mr. Prucnal's wife dumped Family Circle, Taste of Home and Better Homes & Gardens because she no longer found enough interesting recipes.

Discussion: @sunny_hundal, @losowsky, @chaughney, @buzzfeedben, @mlcalderone, @jmikelyons and @peterlattman

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Bahrain arrests photographer Ahmed Al-Fardan — Ahmed Al-Fardan, photographer for the NurPhoto agency, was arrested Thursday at his home in Bahrain, according to his agency, news reports, and human rights groups. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest.

Discussion: @nickkristof

John Borland / Wired:

Glenn Greenwald: ‘A Lot’ More NSA Documents to Come — Nearly seven months after journalist and privacy activist Glenn Greenwald publicized Edward Snowden's first revelations of the vast scope of the NSA's digital surveillance, his life has changed absolutely. — Living in Brazil, he is advised not to travel.

Discussion: @stevenjcrowley, Techdirt, Laura Halminen, @glynmoody and @saramorrison