Mediagazer: Pakistani TV reporter, Shan Daher, first journalist to be murdered in 2014 (Roy Greenslade/Guardian)

8:00 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.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Pakistani TV reporter, Shan Daher, first journalist to be murdered in 2014 — Pakistani TV reporter murdered — Pakistani TV reporter Shan Daher (aka Dayer or Odhor) was shot on his way home from his work at the Abb Takk news channel in the Larkana district of Sindh province.

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Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

In the run-up to the Great Recession, accountability journalism saw the story that access journalism missed — This is an excerpt from The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism, published this month by Columbia University Press.

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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 …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Preparations begin for “blowback” against Gabriel Sherman's new Ailes book, out Jan. 21st — Big roll-out begins for Ailes book — Random House is preparing for a “s**tstorm,” to borrow the phrase Matt Drudge used in a tweet four months ago, that will surely ensue …

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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

CES 2014: Internet streaming device maker unveils the Roku TV — The maker of popular Internet streaming devices unveiled the new Roku TV, a smart TV to be manufactured by TCL and Hisense. — Roku, the consumer electronics company best known for its devices that deliver Internet video to televisions …

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Laurie Penny / Guardian:

David Cameron's internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep — The question of who is allowed access to what data is a defining one of our age - and Edward Snowden has taught us to be wary — Picture the scene. You're pottering about on the internet, perhaps idly looking up cake recipes …

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.

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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.

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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 …

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.

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