Mediagazer: Christie administration is latest caught using private email to sidestep public records laws (Jack Gillum/Associated Press)

7:15 PM ET, January 11, 2014

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Christie administration is latest caught using private email to sidestep public records laws — Christie aide is latest to use private emails — WASHINGTON (AP) — Personal emails at the center of the brewing scandal for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have remained secret …

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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’

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Ben Sisariojan / New York Times:

Beats Music launches in US on Jan. 21 for $10 monthly, $15 monthly for families through AT&T, no free tier — Beats Music Enters Online Streaming Market — SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Jimmy Iovine, whose career as a recording engineer, producer and music executive stretches from John Lennon to Lady Gaga …

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The Global Mail:

The Global Mail introduces vault powered by SecureDrop to securely accept documents from anonymous sources — Introducing the TGM SecureDrop Vault — Today The Global Mail introduces a new, secure way for sources to work with our journalists to expose wrongdoing.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @securedrop and @trevortimm

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.

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Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:

The new New York Times: making the concept of redesign obsolete — The Gray Lady has overhauled with ‘hamburgers’, native ads and clever design, but for all the good, personalisation is wanting — A website redesign is often an expensive, time-consuming, over-hyped exercise in media navel-gazing …

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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.

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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 …

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.

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