Mediagazer: Jill Abramson discusses the New York Times' 2014 plans for diversity, global coverage, more (Margaret Sullivan/New York Times)

9:20 PM ET, January 12, 2014

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Jill Abramson discusses the New York Times' 2014 plans for diversity, global coverage, more — The Times, From the Top: Looking Ahead — THESE days, when Jill Abramson surveys the paper's masthead, she does so with a certain amount of satisfaction. Half of the 10 top-ranking editors in the newsroom, including herself, are women.

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

New York Times hires former Bloomberg reporter Michael Forsythe — New York Times Hires Bloomberg Reporter in China Controversy — A Bloomberg News reporter who recently left the news organization over a controversy involving an unpublished article from China has joined The New York Times.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @mikiebarb and Talking Biz News

Campbell Robertson / New York Times:

Blogger's Incarceration Raises First Amendment Questions — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For over six years, Roger Shuler has hounded figures of the state legal and political establishment on his blog, Legal Schnauzer, a hothouse of furious but often fuzzily sourced allegations of deep corruption and wide-ranging conspiracy.

Discussion: @mlcalderone, @popehat and @jonathanweisman

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

NBC's News Unit Teams With Video Clip Start-Up — Broadcasting executives realize that viewers increasingly get their news by glancing on their smartphones instead of spending a half-hour in front of the television. — Reacting to that shift, NBC's news division has invested in a company …

Discussion: @raju and CNBC

Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

Gabriel Sherman in Wide-Ranging Interview: Ailes ‘More Extreme Than Glenn Beck’ — Gabriel Sherman, author of the much-anticipated unauthorized biography of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, sat for an in-depth interview with Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter on Sunday morning …

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Brian Lowry / Variety:
CNN's Jeff Zucker Fires Back at Fox News' Roger Ailes

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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Fox's War Against Ailes Biographer

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The long battle between the NYT and WSJ cools off as business models and coverage diverge — The newsonomics of momentum in the WSJ/NYT battle — What a difference a year makes in America's national newspaper war. — As we look back at 2013 — and forward to 2014 …

Discussion: @michaelroston, @masurakusuo, @alexmleo and Quartz

Jon Evans / TechCrunch:

As informal English flourishes online, Standard Written English limits old media's appeal — Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow. — Let's talk about doge, but first let's talk about the late great David Foster Wallace, who 13 years ago wrote a classic essay about modern English* entitled …

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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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Jack Gillum / Associated Press:

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 …

Discussion: The Verge

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Is The Times Giving Proper Credit on the Christie-Bridge Story?

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

With original 4K content, studio partnerships, and infrastructure at the ready, Netflix could be the de facto 4K destination — How Netflix won CES — It's not the TVs, it's what you watch on them — The television industry has been holding its breath.

Discussion: The Wrap

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: @trevortimm, @jayrosen_nyu and @securedrop

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Documentary with Google Glass captures West Indian and Hasidic Jewish communities in Brooklyn — How Google Glass captured two very different communities — Project 2x1, a documentary premiered in December, filmed the West Indian and Hasidic Jewish populations of Brooklyn's Crown Heights using Google Glass

Discussion: @niemanlab

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.