Mediagazer: CIA Cuts Off Public Access to Its Translated News Reports (Steven Aftergood/Secrecy News)

9:55 PM ET, January 8, 2014

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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

Discussion: Open, Fast Company, Slate, @jbenton, Poynter, @dangillmor, SND, @nathan_ford, @ianadelman and @ianadelman

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

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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.

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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 …

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.

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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 …

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.

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Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
John Henry vows to make Globe ‘aggressively relevant’

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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% …

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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 …

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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.

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Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Leadership Change May Signal New Start for Billboard Magazine — Billboard magazine first appeared in 1894 to cover the outdoor advertising market, reporting on “all that is new, bright and interesting on the boards,” as it proclaimed in its first issue. But for almost a century …

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

Arianna Huffington teams with Berggruen Institute, will launch global news site during Davos — Arianna Huffington announces launch of World Post news website — The 1% are about to get their own publication. The digital media titan Arianna Huffington and the billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen …

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Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News:

CIA Cuts Off Public Access to Its Translated News Reports — Beginning in 1974, the U.S. intelligence community provided the public with a broad selection of foreign news reports, updated daily. These were collected and translated by the Central Intelligence Agency's Foreign Broadcast Information Service …

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.

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Kristen Hare / Poynter:

USA Today apologizes for lifting weather map — In an e-mailed statement to Poynter, USA Today's Editor-in-Chief David Callaway explained how New York writer Scott Bateman's weather map ended up on USA Today's site with different (and far less colorful) wording and no credit.

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