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4:45 AM ET, January 22, 2014

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Dow Jones Chief Resigns In Shift by News Corp.  —  Lex Fenwick, the hard-driving chief executive who stumbled in his efforts to transform Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has resigned effective immediately as the company rethinks its strategy.
Discussion: @jbenton
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Lex Fenwick out at Dow Jones  —  Big changes at News Corp. today: Lex Fenwick is out as chief executive of Dow Jones & Company after just two years on the job.  —  Fenwick will be replaced on an interim basis by News Corp's chief creative officer, William Lewis, who will …
Politico:
Why the Post passed on Ezra Klein  —  The Washington Post would do anything for Ezra Klein.  Well, almost anything.  —  For nearly five years, the Post has steered a bounty of financial resources to its star economics columnist and blogger.  It has allowed him to have a contributor deal with MSNBC …
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David Weigel / Slate:
Ezra Klein Leaves the Washington Post; Washington Wonders Whether the Post Ever Learns Anything
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ezra Klein leaves Washington Post to launch new venture, takes staff with him
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon considering online live TV service, has approached at least three media conglomerates seeking rights to distribute their channels  —  Amazon Considering Online Pay TV Service  —  Live TV Channels Would Compete With Cable, Satellite  —  Amazon.com Inc. has approached big entertainment companies …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon Denies It Has Plans to Create an Over-the-Top TV Service  —  Internet retailer responds to Wall Street Journal report that Amazon has approached TV networks about licensing channels Amazon.com denied a report that it was seeking to license TV channels to launch a broadband-delivered television service.
Discussion: Pocket-lint and @brianstelter
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Comcast resurrects EveryBlock in Chicago on Thursday, plans other U.S. cities later  —  Hyperlocal website EveryBlock to be resurrected … EveryBlock, the hyperlocal website shut down last February amid financial losses, is returning from internet limbo.
WashPost PR:
The Volokh Conspiracy joins The Washington Post  —  The Washington Post today announced a partnership with The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog that covers law, public policy, politics, culture and other topics.  —  Eugene Volokh, a law professor at UCLA, founded the blog in April 2002 …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Coronel to replace Grueskin as Columbia J-school's academic dean  —  Bill Grueskin is stepping down as the Columbia Journalism School's dean of academic affairs and will be replaced by Sheila Coronel, a veteran investigative journalist who joined the faculty about seven years ago.
Jim Romenesko:
Wall Street Journal memo: Newsroom changes mean ‘a faster-moving, digital-first news operation’  —  Update: Lex Fenwick is out as Dow Jones chief executive officer.  (Dow Jones release)  —  With 60 Wall Street Journal employees joining the Real-Time News Desk today, “we have embarked …
Discussion: @moorehn and NetNewsCheck Latest
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Yahoo's Next Problem: Tumblr's Traffic Isn't Growing  —  The past year has been an up-and-down affair for Yahoo , with the company and its CEO, Marissa Mayer, scoring numerous PR coups while failing to make headway in its core business of selling digital advertising.
Discussion: PandoDaily and @jeffbercovici
Emily Rauhala / TIME:
CNN, BBC Reporters Covering China Activist Trial Manhandled on Live TV  —  Street-side tussles take place outside Beijing court where transparency campaigner Xu Zhiyong is being tried behind closed doors  —  BBC journalist Martin Patience lived up to his name today.
Discussion: BBC
David Banks / Guardian:
WSJ ruling highlights problems for court reporters filing to overseas offices  —  Journalists could end up in contempt if copy filed for a foreign print edition was picked up by another outlet and put online  —  Court reporters could be committing contempt when they file to their offices abroad …
Discussion: Dow Jones Newswires
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Capital N.Y. Is Rolling Out a Nearly $6,000 Annual Paywall '  —  Four months ago, Allbritton Communications bought the three-year-old media and politics site Capital New York with the aim of transforming media in the Empire State the way the company's Politico, with its breakneck …
Reuters:
Analysis: Verizon deal may push U.S. cable to offer online TV services  —  (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc's acquisition of Intel Corp's venture to create a web-based TV service may be the catalyst that pushes U.S. cable players to start similar products to fend off fast-growing video rivals …
Discussion: New York Times
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Why Verizon is buying Intel Media: it's all about taking on Comcast
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Showtime, HBO, Starz blast NPD study that says they lost subscribers  —  Thanks to “Homeland” and other shows, Showtime has added 1 million subscribers a year in six of the last seven years, a spokesperson says.  —  Pay-TV channels HBO, Showtime and Starz are blasting a much-ballyhooed study …
Discussion: Engadget and BBC
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Al Jazeera Expands Global Footprint With Turkish Digital Operation  —  Al Jazeera Turk will start as a digital operation and plans to become a broadcaster in a year  —  Al Jazeera is expanding its global footprint, bringing its brand to Turkey and the world's 140 million Turkish speakers …
Discussion: Al Jazeera English
Gwynn Guilford / Quartz:
Westerners are so convinced China is a dystopian hellscape they'll share anything that confirms it  —  ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images, via Tech in Asia  —  When it comes to China stories, people will believe almost anything.  Take, for instance, the reports about pollution being so severe …
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Mediaite and Mashable
Tania Branigan / Guardian:
Guardian blocked in China after story about leadership's offshore wealth  —  Access to the front page of newspaper's website blocked and availability of other stories intermittent  —  The Guardian appeared to be partially blocked in China on Wednesday after revealing that relatives …
Discussion: New York Times
Adweek:
Time.com pushes back relaunch until February, announces four hires  —  Time.com Makes More Hires Ahead of Relaunch New target date set for relaunch By Lucia Moses  —  Time.com has made another round of hires and pushed back the target date of its long-anticipated relaunch.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Reporters Without Borders:
Pakistan - Three TV station employees killed in targeted shooting by Taliban group  —  Reporters Without Borders is appalled and saddened by the deliberate murder of three Express News TV employees in a shooting attack by a Taliban group on one of the TV station's vehicles in Karachi on 17 January.
Discussion: @dezhill and Guardian
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Users' Diversity Becomes an Ad Selling Point  —  Microblogging Social-Media Site Trying to Capitalize on Its Demographics  —  For most of its rather short life, Twitter Inc. rarely mentioned that its user base is more racially diverse than U.S. Internet users as a whole.
Discussion: Gawker and Capital New York
 
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