Mediagazer: BBC Trust director Nicholas Kroll, criticised for his role in payoff scandal, to retire (John Plunkett/Guardian)

8:30 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: @ejdionne, @ezraklein, @agwieckowski, @cdixon, @1bobcohn, @rstephens, @anttiisokangas, @austinkleon, @carr2n, @nbj914, @jessicalessin and @blakehounshell

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 …

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

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Entrepreneurs dominate Forbes 30 Under 30 Media list — 30 Under 30: These People Are Building The Media Companies Of Tomorrow — It used to be easy to find the most promising young talent in the media business. All you had to do was search among the interns at The New Yorker …

Discussion: @jeffbercovici, @jasonwstein and The Huffington Post

John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC Trust director Nicholas Kroll, criticised for his role in payoff scandal, to retire — BBC Trust director to retire — Nicholas Kroll, who was criticised for role in the payoffs scandal, to leave post in June after nearly 10 years in the position — BBC Trust director Nicholas Kroll …

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Capital New York, @sarahw and @mlcalderone

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 …

Discussion: The Official Roku Blog, Multichannel.com, TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, Bloomberg, Associated Press, TechRadar.com, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, TIME, Digits, Variety, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Wired, The Verge, SlashGear, Gigaom and Engadget

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

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.

Discussion: @newsosaur and @newswhip