Mediagazer: Mobile offers local media a digital do-over (Alan D. Mutter/Reflections of a Newsosaur)

3:20 AM ET, January 6, 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.

David Carr / New York Times:

Print Starts to Settle Into Its Niches — Kevin Kelly is not a dumb guy — far from it actually. As the founding executive editor of Wired and one of the people who helped build The Well, among the earliest online communities, he has done a good job of seeing what is coming next for decades.

Discussion: @cdixon, @rstephens, @austinkleon, @jessicalessin and @blakehounshell

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

In the run-up to the Great Recession, accountability journalism saw the story that access journalism missed — In the run-up to the Great Recession, accountability journalism saw the story that access journalism missed — (Christopher Anderson via Magnum Photos)

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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 …

Discussion: Gothamist, @aoscott, Re/code, The Wire, @aoscott, @poniewozik, Deadline.com, Mediaite, JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Wrap, Thanks:@owenthomas

Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:

Newspaper behind bars boasts compelling storytelling — For the inmate editors and writers of the San Quentin News, the work is a reminder that life doesn't end when people are locked up. They want to increase circulation tenfold. — SAN QUENTIN — The scene was almost indistinguishable from that in any other newsroom.

Discussion: @brittanyshoot, @latgreatreads, @kennethturan, @shelbygrad and @inafried

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

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Mobile offers local media a digital do-over — The good news is that you only have to worry about one tech trend in 2014. But it's a doozy. — The trend is the dramatic shift to mobile computing, a communications revolution rivaling the arrival of the Internet itself.

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Gothamist, The Huffington Post, @alanfeuer, @mikehuckman, @dangillmor, @moorehn and @jonathanwald

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:

Discussion: metamedia, @ravmike, @dangillmor, @becj2k, @palafo, @jayrosen_nyu and @macloo

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 …

Discussion: @stevebuttry, @libbyanelson, @jrovner, Philly.com, @yelvington, @dangillmor, @robpegoraro and @dankennedy_nu

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 …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, @jayrosen_nyu, JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Week