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12:35 AM ET, January 24, 2014

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Revisiting disruption: 8 good questions with Clayton Christensen — Clayton Christensen is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the world on innovation and disruption. The Economist magazine called his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma one of the six most important books about business ever written.

Discussion: The Buttry Diary, @jayrosen_nyu, @raju and @tbr1

Associated Press:

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

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics — There is a new ubiquitous media brand on Twitter. — No, I'm not talking about Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media or BuzzFeed or The Verge, or any other investor-backed startup. — I'm talking about @HistoryInPics …

Discussion: @stevesilberman, BuzzFeed, Paleofuture, @elongreen and @xeni

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

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

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 …

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

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: Gawker, Politico and @cnnbrk

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

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

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, @brianstelter, @mlcalderone, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Politico, Pressing Issues, Inside Cable News and Business Insider

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 …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the Orange County Register's (new, newer, newest) plan — Think you know what's going in Orange County and southern California, as Aaron Kushner's Freedom Communications unveils surprise after surprise? Think again. — The most watched news-investment experiment of 2013 …

Discussion: @kenbensinger

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 …

Discussion: @ichinoy

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...

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

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.

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 and Boing Boing