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6:30 PM ET, January 8, 2014

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 Top News: 
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
NYT redesign: an end to page breaks in articles and a focus on tablets and subscribers  —  ‘New York Times’ Website Redesign Goes Back to the Future  —  The New York Times has rolled out its largest website redesign in seven years, but readers familiar with the newspaper might feel like it's a step back in time
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Brian Stelter / CNN Money:
New York Times redesign points to future of online publishing  —  The last time The New York Times embarked on a wholesale redesign of its Web site, in 2006, the iPhone wasn't on the market.  Tablets like the iPad were still years away.  —  So the new design that The Times is unveiling Wednesday …
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:   Times Designers Are Monitoring Reaction to the Redesign, With Adjustments Possible
Joe Strupp / Media Matters:
Exclusive: Washington Post Reader Representative Departs, Replacement Unclear  —  Less than a year after taking the newly created post of reader representative at The Washington Post, Doug Feaver has left the paper, Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt confirmed Wednesday.
Discussion: @dangillmor and Poynter
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Seeking Ezra Klein's Replacement  —  The Washington Post has approached The Atlantic's Derek Thompson to be the next editor of Wonkblog, according to a source familiar with the matter.  —  Thompson has not yet accepted the job, but The Post's recruitment of a replacement suggests …
New York Times:
New bio of Fox News Chief Roger Ailes details power struggles, desire for political influence  —  Biography Casts Critical Light on Fox News Chief  —  Roger Ailes was so eager to influence national politics that in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, he told fellow Fox News executives point-blank …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Roger Ailes biographer Gabriel Sherman strikes back: The book is fact-checked  —  Gabriel Sherman, the author of a highly anticipated biography of Roger Ailes, is hitting back at the Fox News chief's assertion that Sherman and his publisher did not fact-check the book prior to its publication.
Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
Globe publisher Christopher Mayer to step down  —  Boston Globe publisher Christopher Mayer said Wednesday that he plans to step down after nearly 30 years at the newspaper and four years at its helm, as part of a business transition under new owner John Henry.
Discussion: Media Nation
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Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
John Henry vows to make Globe ‘aggressively relevant’  —  Boston Globe owner John Henry pledged to help make the newspaper and its websites “aggressively relevant” and successful in the coming years during a speech to a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast Wednesday.
Discussion: @mviser and @romenesko
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Sales of Online Movies Jumps; DVDs Continue to Decline  —  Delaying Availability of DVDs, Rentals Nudged Consumers … After years of trying to convince consumers to buy movies online, Hollywood found a solution in 2013: Make it the only option.  —  Digital movie purchases surged 47% …
Discussion: @benfritz
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Nick D'Aloisio touts positive Yahoo News Digest reviews likely written by Yahoo employees  —  The Curious Case Of Yahoo's App Reviews  —  Summly founder D'Aloisio, in an interview with Yahoo's David Pogue, touted his new app's positive reviews.  But who's writing them?
Discussion: TechCrunch, Gawker, Washington Post and PSFK
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
AMA: How a Weird Internet Thing Became a Mainstream Delight  —  Reddit's question-and-answer format imports the aspirational norms of honesty and authenticity from pseudonymous Internet forums into mainstream interviews.  —  Barack Obama, Jerry Seinfeld, a line cook at Applebee's, and a guy with two penises walk into a bar.
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Advance subsidiary Reddit licensed its logo for use on AR-15 rifles  —  Reddit Licensed Its Logo To Online Scary Assault Weapons Sellers  —  An investigation published this morning by Mother Jones shows that Reddit licensed gun-sellers on its forums to hawk a notorious run of AR-15 assault rifles …
Jack Shafer / Reuters:
Buzz off, Waxman — Congress can't tell a newspaper how to do business  —  Oh to be a fly on the wall Jan. 15, when Tribune Co. executives meet with the staff of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., in a command performance to explain the media conglomerate's plans to spin off its newspapers …
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Two-Year-Old Observer Story About Soccer Mom Madam Incorrectly Named Post Editor  —  On March 29, 2012, the Observer ran a story that suggested the New York Post's editor in chief, Col Allan, was among the “powerful men found in transcripts of the surveillance audio from the five-year-long investigation” of Ms. Gristina.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Gabriel Snyder leaves The Wire, Andrew Golis takes over  —  Gabriel Snyder is leaving his job as editor-in-chief of The Wire, and Andrew Golis has been named “general manager” of the high-octane aggregation website published by Atlantic Media.  Golis will conduct a search for a new editor-in-chief for the site.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sony Doesn't Have the Deals It Needs for Web TV — But That's Not Its Real Problem  —  Last year, Intel said it was going to deliver pay TV over the Web by the end of 2013.  That didn't work out.  —  Now Sony says it will deliver pay TV over the Web sometime in 2014.  Can it deliver?  —  Maybe!
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Ina Fried / Re/code:
Kaz Hirai on Why Sony's Pay TV Bid Can Succeed Where Intel and Others Stumbled
Discussion: CNNMoney.com, CNET, The Verge and Variety
 
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
USA Today apologizes for lifting weather map
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Deutsche Welle:
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Christopher M. Matthews / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Wants E-Book Monitor Removed
Agence France-Presse:
Two Swedish reporters missing in Syria freed: ICRC, diplomatic sources
Discussion: Associated Press, Naharnet and Poynter
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Bob Costas Says NBC's Olympics Broadcast Won't Ignore Russia's Anti-Gay Laws
Discussion: Mediaite
 Earlier Picks: 
Arif Durrani / Brand Republic:
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
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Discussion: @tedhope
Rebecca Greenfield / Fast Company:
A Glimpse Into The Future Of NPR, From Its First-Ever Creative Director
Discussion: @mstanyabasu and @zeldman
Sumit Galhotra / Committee to Protect Journalists:
India's independent journalism in doubt in election year
Discussion: @gautambhatia88
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
China blocks The Guardian's website in rare move against English language media
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
Aereo Raises $34 Million to Grow Online-Television Service