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8:20 AM ET, January 3, 2014

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Ezra Klein Is Said to Plan to Leave Washington Post  —  Ezra Klein, an analyst, columnist and television commentator who runs The Washington Post's Wonkblog, is making plans to leave the newspaper after failing to win support for a new website he wanted to create within the company …
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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
New York Times to Unveil Redesigned Website Next Week
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Weeks in the Making, an Editorial on Snowden May Go ‘Beyond What Is Realistic’  —  Most newspaper editorials don't generate a great deal of heat.  Even fewer can be considered newsworthy.  —  The exception was one in The Times on Thursday, calling for Edward J. Snowden to be offered clemency or a plea bargain.
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Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter:
Dear New York Times Editors: If Snowden Is a Whistleblower, What Is Chelsea Manning?  —  The New York Times Editorial Board is to be highly praised for finally publishing a strong defense of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, one which not only urges clemency but also labels him a whistleblower.
Kalev Leetaru / Foreign Policy:
King Snowden and the Fall of Wikileaks  —  The whistleblower refugee has dominated the media — and displaced Julian Assange.
Jack Shafer:
The Times advances the NSA's amnesty-for-Snowden trial balloon  —  Of course the New York Times editorial page wants clemency or, at the very least, a generous plea bargain for National Security Agency contractor turned super-leaker Edward Snowden!  The news pages of the New York Times …
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Netflix uses the 76,897 micro-genres it assigns to videos  —  How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood  —  If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you.  Some of them just seem so specific that it's absurd.  Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries?
Arti Patel / Folio:
Magazine shipping costs increase 6 percent  —  Magazine shipping costs increase 6 percent.  —  The United States Postal Service (USPS) delivered coal to magazine publishers to welcome the New Year.  —  The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved a two-year six-percent service rate increase …
Wall Street Journal:
Cox to Buy Back Stake in AutoTrader  —  Deal With Providence Equity Implies $7 Billion Value for Online Car Marketplace … Cox Enterprises Inc., the closely held media conglomerate, has bought back a stake in AutoTrader Group Inc. in a deal that implies a value of about $7 billion for the online auto marketplace.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Daily News closes Desi News, a South Asian-centric vertical led by NewsCred  —  Daily News shutters South Asian site  —  The Daily News has pulled the plug on Desi News, a South Asian-centric vertical fueled by the New York-based content-licensing platform NewsCred.
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Disney's Iger talks about the need for tech disruptors like Dorsey on his board  —  Disruption “In Our Face” — Iger on Why Disney Needs Tech Heavies on Board More Than Ever  —  Just before the end of 2013, Disney named well-known Silicon Valley player Jack Dorsey — he of the perfect selfie - to the board of the entertainment giant.
Brody Mullins / Wall Street Journal:
End exclusive early media access for unemployment data, Labor Department panel says  —  Labor Department Panel Calls for Ending Lockup for Jobs Data  —  First Formal Charge to Alter Practice of Releasing Numbers to Media  —  WASHINGTON—A Labor Department panel has called …
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Associated Press:
Reporter sues NY police over Occupy protest arrest  —  NEW YORK — A journalist says New York City police officers tackled him and unfairly arrested him while he was covering the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests.  —  Chris Faraone says he was reporting for the Massachusetts …
Discussion: NY Daily News
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Amazon Decides to Stop Hiding Its Web Video Service  —  Amazon has been spending time and money building up its Prime Instant online video service, but so far it hasn't spent much time telling people about it: It's very easy to invest a lot of time on Amazon.com without ever learning that the site …
 
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Shahan Mufti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Malala Yousafzai's long and delicate dance with the press
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
FBI Denies Requests For ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Source's Interview Records
John Paczkowski / Re/code:
Mossberg and Swisher of Re/code discuss competition and “old” vs. “new” journalism
Brian Fung / The Switch:
Mandiant, which rooted out Chinese hackers for the NYT, acquired by FireEye for nearly $1 billion
Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:
China 2013 Box Office Surges 27 Percent to $3.6 Billion
Eleanor Beardsley / NPR:
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Hearst's Swartz Eyes B2B Media, Entertainment, for Growth
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Bloomberg's Susan Goldberg Leaving For National Geographic
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