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12:30 PM ET, January 20, 2014

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Josh Levin / Slate:
Digging Too Deep  —  Every journalist has worked on a story that started out being about one thing and ended up as something else entirely.  That's what happened to Caleb Hannan, who got curious about a weird-looking golf club he found on YouTube and started quizzing the inventor about her far-out scientific theories.
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Hazel Cills / Gawker:
Twitter Explodes After Trans Subject of Golf Article Kills Herself
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
After Mulling Sale, Business Insider Raising a New Round of Funding  —  Business Insider — which rejected an informal acquisition offer of around $100 million floated by AOL last year and has discussed other sale efforts — is likely to be raising a new round from its existing investors, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing.com:
UsVsTh3m at nine months and Ampp3d at six weeks: What has Trinity Mirror learned?  —  For any established media company, coming up with new ideas and finding out fast if they've got a future is a big challenge.  —  So for Trinity Mirror to place an (admittedly small) bet on UsVsTh3m last last May was a pretty ballsy move.
Discussion: @iainpope73 and @joannauk
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
In France, value of legacy media companies plummets  —  Those media assets that are worth nothing  —  The valuation gap between high tech and media companies has never been wider.  The erosion of their revenue model might be the main culprit, but management teams, unions and boards …
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
After the Times Redesign, Complaints and Changes  —  I've seldom had as much response to any post as to one last week - from the first day of the redesign of The Times's website: about 1,000 comments on this blog, in addition to hundreds of emails to my office.
Fergus Pitt / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
Which News Organizations Influence Wikipedia?  —  The New York Times leads the Wikipedia record of 2013's biggest news stories, according to a very simple (and perhaps simplistic) analysis of the online encyclopedia's citations.  The analysis and process are quite basic …
Discussion: @raju, @fergle and @towcenter
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
International editors warn UK Government sending ‘negative message’ to world on press freedom  —  The World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA) two-day press freedom mission to the UK concluded with a warning that changes to press regulation and Government “intimidation” of The Guardian were sending a …
Discussion: @pressgazette
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
For Movie Producers, a Golden Age Fades  —  As Hollywood slashes spending, nobody has felt the brunt as much as movie producers … LOS ANGELES—They still sit on the northern edge of the Universal Pictures lot—symbols of an era when producers were the kings of Hollywood.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and @benfritz
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News International security chief said he ‘burned stuff’, colleague tells court  —  Mark Hanna made comment to security guard after they discussed News of the World closure, phone-hacking trial hears  —  The News International director of security told one of his team he had dug a hole in his garden to …
Discussion: @guardian
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
BBC launches new iWonder brand for digital content, starting with interactive World War One guides  —  The BBC has launched a new brand called iWonder which it hopes will unlock the learning potential from its wide-ranging content.  —  Starting today, and designed to coincide with the BBC's World War …
Discussion: BBC, Digital Spy, T3, thedrum.com and Pocket-lint
 
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Roberto Baldwin / Wired:
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