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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 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China Controversy — A Bloomberg News reporter who recently left the news organization over a controversy involving an unpublished article from China has joined The New York Times. — Michael Forsythe, a Hong Kong-based reporter who previously …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
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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 new New York Times: making the concept of redesign obsolete
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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 …
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's War Against Ailes Biographer
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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 …