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10:50 AM ET, January 11, 2014

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Brian Lowry / Variety:
CNN's Jeff Zucker Fires Back at Fox News' Roger Ailes  —  Former NBC exec also says deals with Jay Leno, Ann Curry not in the cards  —  CNN chief Jeff Zucker fired back at Fox News Channel CEO Roger Ailes on Friday, saying his understanding is that an upcoming Ailes biography …
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Fox's War Against Ailes Biographer  —  Fox News has been uncharacteristically quiet about the upcoming tell-all Roger Ailes biography, but the media empire seems to have been doing secret investigative work on writer Gabriel Sherman.  —  The book is nearly out.  Now comes the battle.
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
The New York Times website redesign is great, as far as it goes — which isn't very far  —  Having worked for many years on the web side of a large national newspaper, I know that a website redesign is a huge undertaking — and it must be even more gigantic and time-consuming when you are the New York Times, with all that that implies.
Discussion: Subtraction.com
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Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:
The new New York Times: making the concept of redesign obsolete
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Is The Times Giving Proper Credit on the Christie-Bridge Story?  —  The explosive story surrounding Gov. Chris Christie this week is bringing well-deserved praise to the newspaper, The Record, in northern New Jersey, which has been chipping away at it for months.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
For Bergen Record's reporting, public records requests are ‘the go-to tool’
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
IFJ pleads with Thai prime minister: let journalists wear body armour  —  The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the authorities in Thailand to allow journalists reporting in the country to import and use body armour.  —  Under current Thai law it is illegal for journalists …
Associated Press:
Guatemala prez drops complaint against journalist  —  GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina says he and his vice president have dropped criminal complaints against a newspaper director they accuse of blackmail and harassment.  —  Molina said Friday it will be up to a tribunal …
Joshua Hollis / Wannabe Hacks:
Can student media fill a gap left by closing local papers?  —  “No I'm sorry; we don't speak to student journalists.”  Hands up who has ever run up against this brick wall of polite (and often apologetic) indifference in your journalistic endeavours.  I certainly have, and it can be one of …
Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Study: Nearly Half of Americans Tune to Other Devices While Watching TV  —  Findings from CES and NATPE indicate millennials are most frequent multitaskers, while a majority don't find it makes for an enjoyable viewing experience.  —  A new study indicates that nearly half of all Americans employ …
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Supreme Court to Hear Aereo Case  —  The Supreme Court has granted review to broadcasters' challenge to the legality of startup Aereo, in a case that may not only determine the future of digital streaming of station signals but of network television itself.  —  Without comment …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
How a London news agency became the fifth biggest news provider in the world on YouTube  —  The most popular UK news provider on YouTube at present isn't ITN, Press Association or The Guardian.  It's a comparatively little known agency called Barcroft Media.
Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:
Why is Yahoo bad at being a tech company?  It doesn't want to be one.  —  “Media has long been one of Yahoo's key strengths,” Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer told a room full of techies at CES this week.  And Yahoo's talent investments over the past year, like recruiting Katie Couric …
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy to Resign  —  Tim O'Shaughnessy, a co-founder and the CEO of LivingSocial, on Friday told the staff of his daily deals company he planned to step down.  —  The news was first reported by the Washington Business Journal and confirmed by Re/code.
 
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