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7:55 AM ET, January 13, 2014

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David Carr / New York Times:
Roger Ailes' Permanent Pushback Campaign  —  Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News Channel, has little left to accomplish in a remarkable television career.  He has made billions for his owners, created an entirely new genre of TV and, in doing so, he has changed the way politics is conducted.
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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 …
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
Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
LEAP hopes its open-source, encrypted email will be useful for journalists and newsrooms  —  LEAP hopes its open-source, encrypted email will be useful for journalists and newsrooms  —  Email, that daily workflow staple, is becoming a real problem in this post-Snowden era.
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.
Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
Chinese journalists face tighter censorship, Marxist retraining  —  BEIJING — After a decade as a reporter and producer for China Central Television, Wang Qinglei grew tired of the increasingly “stifling environment” for this country's journalists and took to social media to say so.
Rob Hart / NetNewsCheck:
For Photojournos, A Post-Newspaper World  —  Last May, the Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire photo staff.  Some media watchers thought it signaled the beginning of the end for photojournalists, as more publishers, looking to cut costs, started arming their reporters with iPhones to shoot pictures and video.
Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Netflix snags first Golden Globe win as Robin Wright is crowned Best Actress for House of Cards  —  From online streaming to TV series producers — Netflix is making itself known as a firm to be contended with in the entertainment industry.  At no point is this clearer than now …
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
In Scandal, Turkey's Leaders May Be Losing Their Tight Grip on News Media  —  ISTANBUL — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has labeled an investigative reporter who has published a number of leaked documents related to a widening corruption scandal a traitor.
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Background info on athletes coloring NBC's Olympic coverage researched over years by team of 5  —  Trying to Unearth Nuggets of Gold For NBC  —  STAMFORD, Conn. — Nothing satisfies NBC's crew of Olympic researchers more than discovering something unusual about an athlete heading to the Games.
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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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
With original 4K content, studio partnerships, and infrastructure at the ready, Netflix could be the de facto 4K destination
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Documentary with Google Glass captures West Indian and Hasidic Jewish communities in Brooklyn
Jack Gillum / Associated Press:
Christie administration is latest caught using private email to sidestep public records laws
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
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
IFJ pleads with Thai prime minister: let journalists wear body armour
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Guatemala prez drops complaint against journalist
Joshua Hollis / Wannabe Hacks:
Can student media fill a gap left by closing local papers?
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
The New York Times website redesign is great, as far as it goes — which isn't very far