Mediagazer: Slate's Matt Yglesias Joining Ezra Klein Venture (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

9:40 PM ET, January 23, 2014

Top News:

AP severs ties with photographer who altered work — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has severed ties with a freelance photographer who it says violated its ethical standards by altering a photo he took while covering the war in Syria in 2013. — The news service said Wednesday …

Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Should the AP Really Have Fired This Pulitzer-Prize War Photographer?

Discussion: @amy_stein and @garonsen

Nick Davies / Guardian:

Brooks 'sought James Murdoch's approval for Sun's backing of Tories' — Laptops contained four News International documents and football and racing apps, the Old Bailey told — Rebekah Brooks sought the personal approval of James Murdoch for the Sun editorial comment which marked …

Discussion: @courtnewsuk, Hacked Off and mUmBRELLA

James Doleman / The Drum: Police officer arrested for leaks to the Guardian, phone-hacking trial hears

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks ‘asked Times editor for sourcing of Milly Dowler story’

Discussion: @lisaocarroll

William Wan / Poynter:

Covering China: for foreign and domestic press, self-censorship's the threat — It's not easy being a journalist in China these days. — Chinese reporters are facing new government restrictions, including forced training in Marxism and a new written “ideology” exam.

Discussion: @comradewong

Alice Speri / Al Jazeera America:
Intimidated journalists in Russia hesitate to criticize Sochi Games

Discussion: @plew108

Noreen Malone / The New Republic:

What Happens When You Give TV's Biggest Fanboy His Own TV Show? — The remarkable rise of Brian Stelter — On a recent episode of CNN's media show, “Reliable Sources,” there was a brief moment when the whole enterprise threatened to collapse in on itself.

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @jonathanchait, @mlcalderone, @hillarykelly and TheBlaze.com

John Seigenthaler / Al Jazeera America:

Jill Abramson talks to John Seigenthaler — Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden helped The New York Times “keep the public informed on what I consider to be very important matters,” says Jill Abramson, the woman who has the final say on what constitutes “all the news that's fit to print.”

Discussion: Politico, Erik Wemple, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, The Week, @drudge_report, @justinhorwath, @froomkin, @frankluntz, @annecronin, @jaredbkeller, JIMROMENESKO.COM and TheBlaze.com

Dugald Baird / Guardian:

Stan Collymore returns to Twitter and hits out at the Sun — Former England footballer asks for ‘solutions to help Twitter police itself’ after suspending account following racist abuse — Stan Collymore has criticised the Sun as he returned to Twitter after suspending his account over racist abuse that he received on the site.

Discussion: Softpedia News and Press Gazette

Michael Moynihan / The Daily Beast:
Can a Tweet Put You in Prison? It Certainly Will in the UK

Discussion: @thedailybeast, @jaimemaggio and @mcmoynihan

Joe Marchese / MediaPost:

The Problem With TV Everywhere: No One Wants It — “TV Everywhere” is a term used to describe the ability to have a TV-like experience from any device in any location by using one set of credentials (most likely tied to your cable account). While the surge of connected mobile devices …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

CNN laid off more than 40 journalists at end of 2013 — CNN and HLN “laid off more than 40 senior journalists in its newsgathering operation” at the end of 2013, Matthew Garrahan reports in the Financial Times. — The cuts “coincide with changes to the network's programming,” Garrahan writes.

Discussion: Financial Times, TVNewser, @mlcalderone, New York Magazine, Politico, @brianstelter, Mediaite, Inside Cable News and Business Insider

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Slate's Matt Yglesias Joining Ezra Klein Venture — Matt Yglesias, a prominent blogger and Slate's “Moneybox” columnist, is leaving the site at the end of February to join Ezra Klein's new venture, according to a staff memo. — Slate editor-in-chief David Plotz described Yglesias's departure as …

Discussion: @fmanjoo, @mattyglesias, New York Times and The New York Observer

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Dozens of journalists injured in Kiev during protests, five people killed — This AP photo made its way across Twitter Wednesday, showing journalists covering protests in Kiev. One, as you can see, wears a colander to protect his head instead of a helmet. Helmets, you see, were banned by the government.

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, kyivpost.com, @poynter and The Lede

Catherine Shoichet / CNN:

Some CNN social media accounts hacked — Atlanta (CNN) — Some of CNN's social media accounts and blogs were compromised Thursday. — The affected accounts included CNN's main Facebook account, CNN Politics' Facebook account and the Twitter page for CNN.

Discussion: Politico and @cnnbrk

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

How geolocation may play a bigger role in future newsgathering — At a debate at London's Frontline Club, experts at the cutting edge of newsgathering discussed what factors and technologies will play a role in the future — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

Mediashift:

Relaunched American Journalism Review Puts Students to Work … Co-authored with Sean Mussenden — On the top floor of the University of Maryland's journalism school, students are learning about the future of news by covering it. — Like most journalism schools, the Philip Merrill College …

Rebecca Greenfield / Fast Company:

How HarperCollins's Chief Digital Officer Uses Big Data To Make Publishing More Profitable — Having worked at EMI records for over a decade, Chantal Restivo-Alessi knows what it's like to have the digitization of media cannibalize your industry. “I went through the digital revolution early on with music …

Caysey Welton / Folio:

TechMedia Network Acquires BuyerZone — TMN says the acquisition will account for up to 25 percent of total revenue. — TechMedia Network Inc. announced that is has acquired BuyerZone from Reed Business Information. — TMN is a digital tech and science publisher with proprieties like Space.com, TopTenReviews and LAPTOP.

Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:

Why Related Links Are Getting So Racy and What Publishers Can Do About It — An Option For Serving Mild Related Links, But Probably Earning Less Money Too — The related links section of a news website can often be its most confounding. It's not unusual, for instance …

Discussion: The Content Strategist and MarketingVox News & Trends

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Now that's adaptive design! The Verge show different versions of a story to Apple, Google, or Microsoft users — To say that a website is responsively designed usually means that it responds to the width of the screen or browser window it's being displayed in — looking different on a phone than on a 27-inch monitor, for example.

Discussion: SND, Boing Boing and MetaFilter

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Setting Its Sights On Content Personalization, AOL To Acquire Gravity For $90.7M — AOL is announcing that it has reached a deal to acquire content personalization startup Gravity for an initial $83 million, with another $7.7 million paid out over the next two years.

Discussion: Re/code, AOL Corp, New York Times, Gravity, PandoDaily, Forbes, ZDNet, Gigaom, Business Insider, Variety, CNET, AdAge and Softpedia News

Phil Dzikiy / iLounge:

Apple TV may get game support with Bluetooth controllers and direct game downloads by March — Reports: Apple TV to add games in coming update — iLounge has heard from reliable industry sources that Apple TV will soon be getting proper game support in an update, likely to come in March or earlier.

Discussion: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, BGR, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, Gigaom, Business Insider, Digital Spy and Electronista

Reuters:

Time Warner Cable should talk to Charter, T. Rowe says — A Time Warner Cable Inc investor that also has a large stake in would-be predator Charter Communications Inc is urging Time Warner Cable to talk to its smaller rival, after weeks of Charter's aggressive campaign to win over investors.