Mediagazer: AOL sells Winamp and Shoutcast Radio to streaming service Radionomy for undisclosed sum (Ben Woods/The Next Web)

9:10 AM ET, January 14, 2014

Top News:

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Charter Makes $61.3 Billion Offer to Acquire Time Warner Cable — Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR) offered to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) for about $132.50 a share, valuing the second-largest U.S. cable provider at more than $61 billion, including debt.

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Readers Lash Out About Bill Keller's Column on a Woman With Cancer — Bill Keller's column in The Times on Monday about Lisa Bonchek Adams has generated a great deal of negative response. Xeni Jardin, the well-known writer who blogs on Boing Boing, sometimes about her own experience with cancer, was outraged, calling it bullying.

Zeynep Tufekci / Medium:
Social media is a conversation, not a press release.

Poynter:
Guardian deletes Emma Keller post about cancer patient

Discussion: New Yorker, The Huffington Post, Capital New York, The Huffington Post and @anthonyha

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Why transparency matters: better copyright policy emerges with the public involved in planning — Transparency Is Fundamental to Good Copyright Policy — In the week leading up the two-year anniversary of the SOPA blackout protests, EFF and others are talking about key principles that should guide copyright policy.

Discussion: Techdirt

Dell Cameron / Daily Dot:
EFF, other groups launch ‘Copyright Week’ campaign today to support reform of laws

Discussion: Mashable, Policy Blog and Boing Boing

Jon Passantino / BuzzFeed:

DirecTV Drops The Weather Channel In Dispute Over Carriage Fees — The network was pulled from 20 million homes at midnight Monday and replaced with competitor Weather Nation. Updated 2 a.m. ET Tuesday. — The Weather Channel launched a website featuring a video message …

Emma McGarthy / Press Gazette:

Boston Globe's Jeff Moriarty joins UK's Johnston Press as chief digital and product officer — Johnston Press appoints new chief digital and product officer — Johnston Press has today announced the appointment of American born Jeff Moriarty as chief digital and product officer.

Darren Boyle / Press Gazette:

Daily Mail announces deal with talkSPORT radio — The Daily Mail has announced a partnership deal with talkSPORT radio which will feature several of the newspaper's journalists and columnists appearing on the radio station. — Chief sports writer Martin Samuel will be among the names giving …

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Skimping on Fees and Avoiding Journalists: Are Publishers Doing Native on the Cheap? Could be moving toward an advertorial model By Lucia Moses — From publishers to creative agencies to writer networks, many seem to be making money from native advertising.

Discussion: @butchward

Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:

AP's Carvin: News Battle Near For Twitter, FB — Twitter and Facebook are setting themselves up for a battle for news supremacy among social media networks. Twitter, though, holds the upper hand, according to Eric Carvin, social media editor at the Associated Press.

Discussion: @bbccollege, @marksluckie and @columbiajourn

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

AOL sells Winamp and Shoutcast Radio to streaming service Radionomy for undisclosed sum — Radionomy confirms acquisition of Winamp and Shoutcast — The radio streaming service Radionomy has confirmed that it has purchased Winamp and Shoutcast Radio for an undisclosed sum from AOL, in a bid to expand its music streaming offering.

Discussion: CNET, Emag.co.uk and The Verge

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Protecting a Source, James Risen Takes His Case to the Supreme Court — The Times reporter James Risen took his case to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking that his effort to protect his confidential source be protected. — It has been a long road for Mr. Risen, as I wrote in a column last year.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, Yahoo, @froomkin, @sulliview, @ryangabrielson, @arusbridger, @mlcalderone, Forbes, Politico and The Huffington Post

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Gawker editor says he was told Roger Ailes was having him tailed — Here's something you won't read in Gabriel Sherman's hotly anticipated book about Roger Ailes: Gawker editor John Cook told Capital he was reliably informed that Ailes, the powerful chairman of the Fox News Channel, had him tailed in 2012.

Discussion: Capital New York, TVNewser, Mediaite, @paleofuture, Talking Points Memo, The Corsair, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, The Verge, @peterfhart and New York Times

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

The end of tabloid papers and the new quest for media respectability — As New York City's new mayor prepared to take office late last year, a local tabloid decided to show him who really ran the town. In a series of outrageous covers, the New York Post humiliated one of the mayor's longtime aides …

Discussion: @niemanlab

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Animal Planet! Team BuzzFeed Launches The Dodo With $2 Million and a Site Built by Rebel Mouse. — BuzzFeed is a fast-growing website that is famous, in part, for its willingness to publish lots of pictures and videos of animals. — So what would happen if you ran a website …

Discussion: @jakebeckman, TechCrunch, Mashable and Business Insider

Luke Harding / Guardian:

Russia expels US journalist David Satter without explanation — Moscow authorities ban writer from the country in first expulsion of US journalist since the cold war — Russia has expelled a US journalist living in Moscow for the first time since the cold war, in a move that is likely …

Discussion: Forbes, @ase, @mcmoynihan, @astroehlein, @janinegibson, @maxseddon, @ptbrennan11, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, @motherjones and BuzzFeed

Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:

Philadelphia Newspaper Staff Plan Joint Bid Against Feuding Owners — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After another tumultuous year on the job, frustrated workers at Philadelphia's two largest newspapers vowed Monday to bid against feuding owners if the company again goes on the auction block.

Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Apple loses bid to block antitrust monitorship — (Reuters) - Apple Inc lost a bid on Monday to block an antitrust monitor appointed after a judge's finding that the company conspired to fix e-book prices. — At a hearing, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan denied Apple's request …