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10:00 AM ET, January 29, 2014

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Sarah Wheaton / New York Times:
Rep. Michael Grimm Threatens an NY1 Reporter  —  The Staten Island lawmaker can be heard telling Michael Scotto, a reporter for NY1, “I'll break you in half” in footage broadcast by the network.
Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center:
Local TV audiences bounce back  —  Bucking a long-range trend of declining viewership, the audience for local TV news grew in all three major time slots in 2013.  Viewership climbed 6% in the morning (5 to 7 a.m.) and 3% in the early evening (5 to 7 p.m.) newscasts, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News of the World hacker admits lying as part of ‘enormous conspiracy’  —  Dan Evans tells court that 2009 witness statement was ‘drafted by News International lawyers’ and he was ‘toeing the line’  —  Dan Evans, the former News of the World hacker, has admitted lying about trying …
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Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Egypts refers Al-Jazeera journalists to trial  —  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's chief prosecutor on Wednesday referred 20 journalists from the Al-Jazeera TV network, including four foreigners, to trial on charges of allegedly joining or assisting a terrorist group and spreading false news that endangers national security.
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Former BBC technology chief to take legal action over DMI dismissal  —  Ex-employee accuses corporation of allowing ‘inaccurate statements’ to be made to MPs over failure of digital initiative  —  The BBC chief technology officer dismissed over the failure of the Digital Media Initiative …
Discussion: Reuters
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time Inc. to cut nearly 500 employees: sources  —  The imminent layoffs at Time Inc. are expected to cut close to 500 people, or about 6 percent of the work force, reliable sources tell Media Ink.  —  One source said the target date for an announcement is now Feb. 4 …
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Lance Ulanoff Out As Editor Of Mashable  —  Lance Ulanoff, former editor-in-chief of PCMag.com, has been moved to an editor-at-large and chief correspondent position at Mashable, effectively removing him from the EIC position at that title.  —  A source close to the move said Jim Roberts …
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Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Mashable expands into climate reporting
Discussion: @mashable
Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
Raft of new digital appointments at Trinity Mirror following Sunday People website axe and departure of Sue Douglas team  —  Trinity Mirror has announced a series of new digital appointments following the decision to scrap its recently-launched Sunday People website and the departure of its head of Sunday Brands, Sue Douglas.
Discussion: Trinity Mirror plc and thedrum.com
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Express pays substantial libel damages to man it falsely accused of being Taliban suspect  —  Express Newspapers has agreed to pay substantial libel damages and costs to an Afghan asylum seeker who it wrongly accused of being a “Taliban suspect”.  —  The High Court heard this morning that Abdul Shizad …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Scribd takes aim at Amazon by bringing its subscription ebook app to the Kindle Fire  —  Scribd has thrown down a gauntlet against the reigning ebook champion Amazon with the release of an app for enjoying its subscription ebook service on Amazon's own Kindle Fire tablet.
Heather Timmons / Quartz:
An Indian newspaper just introduced a “smellable” ad with an evocative scent  —  Baby products maker Johnson & Johnson has taken a leap into the brave new world of “smellables” with a full-page advertisement in the world's largest-circulation English-language newspaper—on a page …
Discussion: @publicroad and @heathat
Wall Street Journal:
Netflix Gears Up to Expand in Europe  —  Rival Media Companies Race to Grab Subscribers, Program Rights  —  As streaming-video juggernaut Netflix Inc. plots an expansion in Europe, media companies across the continent are girding for battle.  —  The U.S.-based online video service …
Discussion: Gigaom
Gillian Wong / Associated Press:
China visa woes for NYT as government ups pressure  —  BEIJING (AP) — The government is intensifying efforts to control foreign media coverage of China, blocking websites, harassing reporters trying to cover trials of activists in Beijing and thwarting efforts by The New York Times to station new journalists on the mainland.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ITV to launch pay-TV drama channel on Sky  —  Broadcaster continues its strategy of reducing its reliance on free-to-air advertising by announcing rollout of ITV Encore  —  ITV is to launch a pay-TV channel on Sky showcasing the “best of British drama”, its first major return to pay-TV since …
Adam L. Penenberg / PandoDaily:
No second chance for Stephen Glass: The long, strange downfall of a journalistic wunderkind  —  The California Supreme Court has denied disgraced former journalist Stephen Glass a license to practice law.  —  Pointing out in its ruling that “Glass's journalistic dishonesty was not a single lapse …
Mike Isaac / Re/code:
Medium, Evan Williams's Post-Twitter Media Startup, Raises $25 Million Round  —  Medium is about to become large.  —  The collaborative publishing startup has just closed a $25 million round of financing, the company confirmed, marking its first major funding raise since it launched a little more than a year ago.
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
The FCC will monitor peering fights to ensure innovation prevails  —  The chairman of the FCC struggles with his Netflix stream too.  In a conversation with me at the State of the Net conference in Washington DC, Chairman Tom Wheeler expressed the same frustrations with his Netflix streams …
Discussion: @zseward, TheHill and Re/code
Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:
Jason Calacanis Shoots for Human Moments in News Feeds  —  This must be the fastest-moving month in the history of new media.  The latest entrant features yet one more familiar face.  —  On Tuesday, Jason Calacanis, who was involved in Web publishing early in its dot-com days, started Inside.com …
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Ivan Moreno / Associated Press:
Colorado Lawmakers Reject Journalist Protection Proposal
Discussion: Poynter and Fox News
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mail Online to switch to .com domain name
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Alison Frankel / Reuters:
The novel legal issues in Tarantino's copyright suit vs Gawker
Simon Thomsen / Business Insider:
Former News Corp Australia CEO Kim Williams Wins $95,000 From Fairfax In Defamation Case
Discussion: mUmBRELLA, TheAustralian and Crikey
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Journalists offer different perspectives on what to do with audience data
Discussion: @poynter
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Shutting Down IntoNow, Nearly Three Years After Acquisition
Discussion: Variety
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
The Netflix of kids' books? Epic launches on iPad for $9.99/month
Discussion: VentureBeat and Publishers Weekly
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Social media enable the crowd to influence conventional wisdom during the State of the Union
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
TV Stations in Los Angeles to Share a Channel to Free Up Spectrum
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
First Look Media Rethinking Newsroom Structure Ahead Of Launch
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Q4 2013 Earnings Slide 6% To $1.27B On EPS Of $0.46, Display Ads Down 6%
L.A. Ross / The Wrap:
Fox News' Roger Ailes Biographer Gabriel Sherman Rebuts Criticism of Sourcing, Defends Reporting