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4:55 PM ET, January 18, 2014

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Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
After Leaving Office, Bloomberg Is More Hands-On at Old Company  —  At editorial meetings in Bloomberg L.P.'s headquarters this week, Michael R. Bloomberg gave clear signs that he would not be taking a hands-off approach as he returned to his old company.  —  Just two week's removed from City Hall …
Katie Roof / Fox Business:
AOL's Patch May Be Dismantled: Source  —  AOL (AOL) shopped its Patch news service for more than a year to various media companies before reaching a deal with private equity firm Hale Global for what's been described as a low-ball bid for the money-losing venture, the FOX Business Network has learned.
Discussion: @alexweprin, @katie_roof and @timobrien
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Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
‘This used to be a newsroom’ — the scene at the Cleveland Plain Dealer  —  As a diminished staff adapts to new rules and new space, “newsroom culture is gone”  —  DETROIT, MI — As a major reorganization of the Cleveland Plain Dealer takes shape, veteran reporters are adjusting to …
Discussion: The Newspaper Guild
Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
FOIA fight for NSA documents continues  —  The government has released some heavily-redacted legal opinions, but ProPublica, the ACLU, and others say that's not enough  —  This past November, ProPublica attempted to open up “the smallest nesting doll” of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance …
Roberto Baldwin / Wired:
How Beats' New Music Service Plans to Crush Spotify  —  Beats Music won't be joining the most-tracks arms race when it launches Tuesday.  Instead, the new subscription service brought to you by Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre will win converts through a potent mix of smarter algorithms and human curation.
Discussion: The Next Web and App Advice
Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
End of film: Paramount first studio to stop distributing celluloid  —  Paramount's “The Wolf of Wall Street” is the first major Hollywood movie to be distributed entirely in digital format — without the use of film or film reels on which the industry has depended since it began.
Discussion: Variety
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Eight Percent of DirecTV Subscribers Would Switch Over Weather Channel Dispute  —  Fresh data in the ongoing DirecTV, Weather Channel carriage dispute reveals a third of DirecTV subscribers would switch, or consider switching, if The Weather Channel were no longer available on the satellite service.
Discussion: Inside Cable News
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Blogger gets same speech protections as traditional press-U.S. court  —  (Reuters) - A blogger is entitled to the same free speech protections as a traditional journalist and cannot be liable for defamation unless she acted negligently, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Facebook ‘relationships guy’ courts Hollywood, media in new push  —  (Reuters) - Beyonce fans got a big surprise at midnight on December 13, when the pop star announced her new album from out of the blue.  —  Just as surprising was her decision to announce the album by posting a 15-second video …
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time Inc. CEO Ripp Said to be Uninvolved in Son's Promotion  —  A company spokesman said Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp wasn't involved in his son Brendan Ripp's promotion to publisher of Sports Illustrated.  —  “The decision to promote Brendan was made by Todd Larsen in consultation with Mark Ford,” the rep emailed.
Discussion: New York Post
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The OC Register's expansion reverses  —  Trouble for Aaron Kushner's contrarian bet in Southern California  —  The Orange County Register, the rebuilt Chevelle SS of the newspaper industry, has blue smoke coming from the tailpipe.  —  On Thursday, owner Freedom Communications laid off …
Discussion: Navel Gazing and @mathewi
Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:
With 60M downloads, BitTorrent's Bundle experiment is paying off  —  The Internet has created a world where value is determined by virality.  —  BitTorrent is contributing to the evolution of how content gets shared.  The creator of file-sharing technology revealed today that people …
Discussion: Techdirt, TechHive and TechCrunch
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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