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5:50 PM ET, January 13, 2015

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Emily Smith / Page Six:
‘Unhappy’ Ann Curry finally leaves NBC  —  Ann Curry's tearful exit from “Today” opposite Matt Lauer.  —  Ann Curry is finally leaving NBC over two and a half years after her excruciating departure from “Today,” Page Six can exclusively reveal.  —  NBC is expected to imminently announce …
Alexandra Topping / Guardian:
With borrowed space and computers, Charlie Hebdo's staff produced a paper and vowed to continue  —  Charlie Hebdo's new edition ‘made with joy as well as pain’  —  Editor-in-chief and cartoonist describe process of putting together latest edition of satirical magazine
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Austin Hunt / BuzzFeed:
Here's Who Is And Isn't Publishing The New Charlie Hebdo Cover Image
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Publisher Macmillan Signs On With E-Book Subscription Services Oyster And Scribd  —  Macmillan, one of the “Big Five” book publishers in the United States, is making its titles available on subscription e-book services Oyster and Scribd, starting today.  —  The news isn't exactly a surprise …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
By refusing to compete with sites like Business Insider for ad dollars, Quartz hopes to build a profitable news business  —  Quartz's Digital Media Strategy Begins to Crystallize  —  When Atlantic Media introduced business-news publication Quartz in September 2012, it spent about $10 million on the launch …
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
A.J. Daulerio's ‘Ratter’ has raised more than a million  —  Ratter, a network of city-specific news sites, raised between $1.1 million and $1.2 million in a fundraising round that ended Oct. 15, founder A.J. Daulerio told Capital.  —  The site has received funding from Gawker Media C.E.O. Nick Denton …
Discussion: AdAge and @ratterofficial
Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:
Neil Young's PonoPlayer promises high-res audio, but with no discernible sound improvement and massive file sizes, it's not worth the $400 price tag  —  Don't Buy What Neil Young Is Selling  —  Neil Young's “high resolution” PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today.  You shouldn't buy it.
Steve Rubenstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Audrey Cooper named editor in chief of The Chronicle  —  Audrey Cooper was named editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday, the first woman to hold the position in the newspaper's 150-year history.  —  “It's a great honor and an awesome responsibility to lead the newsroom of The Chronicle …
Business Wire:
Adweek Integrates Mediabistro Editorial Properties to Form the Adweek Blog Network  —  With migration of nine popular industry blogs, Adweek bolsters its coverage of marketing, advertising, public relations and social media; Mediabistro to focus exclusively on professional development and recruitment services
Adam Rose / Reuters:
China shuts 50 websites and social media accounts  —  (Reuters) - China has closed 50 websites and social media accounts for violations ranging from pornography to “publishing political news without a permit”, Beijing's cyberspace watchdog said on Tuesday.  —  The government is pursuing a crackdown on unwanted material online.
Discussion: Xinhua News Agency
Bloomberg:
Carlos Slim Is About to Be Top New York Times Shareholder  —  Billionaire Carlos Slim is poised to become the largest shareholder in the New York Times Co. (NYT) after already almost doubling his money from an investment that helped the newspaper get through the financial crisis.
Discussion: @alantonelson and @jayrosen_nyu
Christopher Massie / Columbia Journalism Review:
Former blogger Brown Moses is trying to build his own type of investigative news operation  —  Former blogger Brown Moses is trying to build his own type of investigative news operation  —  In November 2013, The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe called Eliot Higgins, an unemployed man from Leicester …
Discussion: @checkdesk and @futureofmedia
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Washington Post Folds Storyline into Wonkblog  —  A rare contraction in the ever-expanding Bezos era.  —  The Washington Post will combine Storyline, a data-driven storytelling site it launched last July, with Wonkblog.  Both verticals cover public policy.
 
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Meg Wagner / NY Daily News:
UVA frat accused of gang rape in Rolling Stone article reinstated after police probe finds no proof of claims
Discussion: Mashable and New York Times
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
CNN's deal with the FAA on drones limits their use to testing, not newsgathering
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BuzzFeed hires Heidi Blake to head UK investigative journalism team
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Los Angeles Times:
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Jim Romenesko:
San Francisco Bay Guardian to publish a commemorative edition next week