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9:00 PM ET, January 5, 2014

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Guns & Ammo columnist fired for suggesting Second Amendment limits after gun manufacturers threaten to pull ads  —  Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns  —  BARRY, Ill. — The byline of Dick Metcalf, one of the country's pre-eminent gun journalists, has gone missing.
Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:
CBS Tests Twitter Rules By Placing Film Critic's Tweet In An Ad  —  On Saturday, the print edition of the New York Times carried a full-page ad for the movie Inside Llewyn Davis with a single tweet by A.O. Scott, a film critic for the newspaper.  —  While he tweeted the words of praise …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
NYPD's John Miller has a long history of moving between journalism and government jobs  —  Bratton and Miller Back in Blue for Round 3  —  Minutes after the news conference last month announcing that he would serve a second term as New York City's police commissioner …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Ezra Klein Speculation Creates Delicate Situation In Washington Post Newsroom  —  NEW YORK — In fall 2006, John Harris and Jim VandeHei were growing restless at the The Washington Post.  —  So the two political journalists began meeting privately with potential investors to launch an online site …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
After LA move, NPR's All Things Considered continues reinvention with more western US coverage  —  An NPR news show, reconsidered  —  LOS ANGELES — The move west earlier this year for NPR's weekend version of “All Things Considered” marked something of a seismic shift for the long-running news program.
Discussion: @romenesko
Ryan Dube / Wall Street Journal:
Peruvian Leader Joins Dispute Over Media Ownership  —  President Humala Says Grupo El Comercio Deal That Gives Media Company More Than 70% of Market Is Dangerous  —  LIMA, Peru—A debate over concentration of media ownership in Peru heated up this week, with the president accusing …
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
You don't tip competitors on Twitter; you beat them  —  You can't get scooped because competition gets tipped to a story when you tweet about it.  Your tweets already scooped the competition.  —  A Digital First engagement editor who's been teaching colleagues how to use Twitter got these questions from a veteran reporter:
George Lewis / Galapagos Digital:
Jeff Bezos flown from cruise in Galapagos islands by Ecuadorian navy after kidney stone attack  —  Billionaire Bezos Flown out of Galápagos  —  Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of the popular Amazon.com shopping website and current owner of the Washington Post …
Maggie Mahar / healthinsurance.org:
Anatomy of an Obamacare ‘horror story’  —  Texas daily went digging for victims of the ACA and Surprise!  Reporter unearthed three Tea Partiers who hate the new law.  —  For months, health reform's opponents have been feasting on tales of Obamacare's innocent victims …
Randall White / Publishers Weekly:
Publisher says it's alive and prospering nearly two years after pulling its books from Amazon  —  Life After Amazon  —  A publisher has no regrets after cutting ties to the online retailer  —  In January 2012, one of the sales representatives for my company, Educational Development Corp. …
Matt Asay / ReadWrite:
The BBC's Social Media Problem With Sherlock  —  I'm not an information anarchist.  I don't start from the premise that all information must be free.  Or even that the availability of content necessitates it being open to all on equal terms.  I collect a paycheck and believe others should …
 
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