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6:55 PM ET, January 20, 2014

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Christina Kahrl / Grantland:
What Grantland Got Wrong  —  Understanding the serious errors in “Dr. V's Magical Putter”  —  When you're a writer, you want something you create to have a long life, to be something that readers will remember and revisit for years to come.  If such was Caleb Hannan's wish, it's been granted …
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Bill Simmons / Grantland:
Grantland editor apologizes for publishing “Dr. V's Magical Putter”  —  The Dr. V Story: A Letter From the Editor  —  How “Dr. V's Magical Putter” came to be published  —  “How could you guys run that?”  —  We started hearing that question on Friday afternoon, West Coast time …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Grantland and Dr. V: What happens when niche journalism meets the network effect  —  Like any niche pursuit, sports journalism can be a strange beast: magazines like Sports Illustrated often spend enormous amounts of time on stories that few outside the bubble of the sports world have even heard of, let alone care about.
Ryan Graff / Knight Lab:
How an intern created the NYT's dialect quiz, the site's most-visited content in 2013  —  Behind the dialect map interactive: How an intern created The New York Times' most popular piece of content in 2013  —  " generates a personalized dialect map based upon user responses compared …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Sun-Times disbands Grid staff  —  The Chicago Sun-Times has disbanded the staff of its business publication Grid, with publisher Brandon Copple leaving last week, reports Lynn Marek of Crain's Chicago.  —  Marek writes, “The Grid brand, which devolved from a print publication to an online product …
Discussion: Chicago Business
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Matt Cutts: “Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done”  —  Google — and Matt Cutts, in particular — has made a number of statements about guest blogging over the past year as the tactic has grown as a link building tactic.  —  None of those statements are as clear as the one Cutts wrote today on his personal blog.
Amy Wallace / New York Times:
Life as a Female Journalist: Hot or Not?  —  LOS ANGELES — IN 2009, I wrote a cover story for Wired magazine about the anti-vaccine movement and profiled Paul Offit, a leading proponent of vaccines for children.  Dr. Offit is a man.  I am a woman.  That was sufficient grounds for things to get ugly.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
As Netflix Rises, More People Are Canceling HBO and Showtime  —  U.S. households subscribing to premium cable channels dropped 6 percentage points over 18-month period, while Netflix and other SVOD services grew 4 points  —  Netflix may be putting a dent in premium cable subscriptions …
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.
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
David Carr / New York Times:
Print focus at OC Register fails to stem bleeding as publisher Aaron Kushner tries to scale  —  Publisher Stumbles in Wild Chase for Growth  —  Timing matters when it comes to news.  I had been reading about Aaron Kushner's audacious strategy to invest in journalism ever since he bought …
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 …
 
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Jarvis DeBerry / The Maynard Institute …:
NABJ Executive Director Resigns
Mark Rachkevych / Kyiv Post:
Watchdog: 26 journalists injured in police clashes, two detained (UPDATE)
Discussion: @christopherjm
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller:
Ex-Politico reporter sells blog to U.S. News & World Report
Discussion: The Run 2016 and @betsyscribeindc
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News International security chief said he ‘burned stuff’, colleague tells court
Discussion: @guardian
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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
For Movie Producers, a Golden Age Fades
Discussion: @benfritz
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Magazine industry ad decline slowing, but 4th quarter not good
Discussion: @rickedmonds and @poynter