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6:10 PM ET, December 30, 2013

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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.
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
The Information committed three journalistic sins in interview with Paul Graham  —  The Disinformation  —  When Jessica Lessin's The Information launched a month ago I was an enthusiastic supporter, paying the $400 yearly subscription fee right away to get access to quality tech content.
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: @joekeohane, @ajam, @maura and @kbeninato
Andrew Rosenthal / Taking Note:
NYT opinion editor responds to allegations of “clearing the decks” for Clinton on Benghazi  —  Republicans React to Benghazi News  —  The article The Times published on Benghazi this weekend infuriated many Republicans, who ran screaming to television studios.
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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 …
Tom Krazit / Gigaom:
Authors Guild files appeal of sweeping Google Books decision  —  This won't come as a surprise to those who have watched the Google Books saga drag on for years, but Publishers Weekly reported Monday that The Authors Guild, which sued Google almost a decade ago over its Google Books project …
Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Gets Wall Street's Silver Medal in 2013  —  Only one company in America had a better stock market performance this past year.  —  As the year on Wall Street closes to an end, Netflix can boast that red is the new black.  —  The company's stock surged 296 percent this past year …
Discussion: Adweek
Michael Rondon / Folio:
Cross-Platform Magazine Advertising Up 6 Percent  —  Magazines saw combined ad units for print and tablet products grow 6 percent in 2013, according to a joint study by Kantar Media and the MPA—The Association for Magazine Media.  Measuring 69 publications that have both print and tablet products …
Discussion: Capital New York and AdAge
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 …
Stephanie Murg / UnBeige:
NYT magazine's design director Arem Duplessis leaving to become creative director at Apple  —  Arem Duplessis Leaving New York 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].
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Facebook is “dead and buried,” or what happens when academic research goes viral  —  Take some academic research on Facebook, add a sexy quote about how teens are abandoning the social network in droves, and combine it with a slow news period.  What do you get?  A small-scale media frenzy about how Facebook is dying.
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 …
Discussion: GBMNews
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
 
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