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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China Controversy  —  A Bloomberg News reporter who recently left the news organization over a controversy involving an unpublished article from China has joined The New York Times.
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.
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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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Fox's War Against Ailes Biographer
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Is The Times Giving Proper Credit on the Christie-Bridge Story?
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
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.
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

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