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11:00 PM ET, January 10, 2012

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Huffington Post Losing Key Editor and Top Tech Wizard  —  Nico Pitney, center, in the White House briefing room, asking a question that the gentleman on the left seems to approve of.  —  It's a familiar story: Hot company gets acquired; then, one by one, many of the talented people …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Nico Pitney to leave The Huffington Post  —  Nico Pitney, executive editor at The Huffington Post and one of Arianna Huffington's top lieutenants, is leaving the website, Capital has learned.  —  The news was announced in a staff meeting earlier today.  —  According to a source …
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Former HuffPo CTO Paul Berry Building New Startup and Incubator With Lerer Ventures
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Confirmed: Halifax noncompete will not apply to New York Times Regional employees  —  At a staff meeting at the Lakeland Ledger Tuesday afternoon, employees were told to tear up the controversial noncompete agreement because it would not apply to them.  The Florida paper's publisher told …
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Lawyer: Where's the journalist who leaves Halifax supposed to get a job?  —  The broad noncompete agreement that Halifax Media employees are being asked to sign from California to Florida may hurt journalists and journalism, but it appears enforceable in most of the states where former employees …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko:   Halifax waives non-compete clause for NYT Regional Media Group employees
Thomas Penny / Bloomberg:
Cameron Will Be Questioned at Media Ethics Inquiry, Times Says  —  U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will be summoned to testify to the Leveson inquiry into media ethics, the Times of London newspaper reported, citing an unidentified person close to the inquiry.
Discussion: @skynewsbreak, Bloomberg and Guardian
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Wall Street Journal:
Sale Explored for New Republic  —  The owners of the New Republic, a fixture of political journalism, are exploring a possible sale of the magazine and have hired a financial adviser, people familiar with the matter said.  —  Adviser Blackstone Group is expected to reach out to various media companies …
Discussion: Gawker and Business Insider
James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Pat Buchanan Denies Being Suspended By MSNBC, Says He's On Medical Leave  —  Pat Buchanan is disputing reports he was suspended from MSNBC and contends that he was instead on medical leave.  “Well, you know I've had some medical issues at the end of the year which were pretty problematic …
Press Gazette:
Times journalist was disciplined for computer hacking  —  A Times journalist was disciplined in 2009 for involvement in “computer hacking”, the Leveson Inquiry has been told.  —  News International interim director of legal affairs Simon Toms said in written evidence to the inquiry …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court To Consider FCC Indecency Case … Dirty words return to the usually staid Supreme Court Tuesday.  For a second time in three years, the justices are hearing arguments about a Federal Communications Commission regulation adopted during the Bush administration that allows …
Discussion: @jbflint and Free Press
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
The Economist Tries A Flipboard-Like Election App All In HTML  —  The Economist has given HTML web apps another shot in the arm by packaging its U.S. presidential election material in to a new Flipboard-like tablet content offering that works entirely in the web browser.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
‘The Daily’: No Longer Just For iPads (But Not For All Androids, Either)  —  The Daily is finally available in Android, sort of.  The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) tablet tabloid, which has been iPad only since birth, is not being offered in the Android Marketplace but instead will start life …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go?  —  Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets.  —  Free since its mid-October launch thanks to a Channel 4 sponsorship …
Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
Magazine Ad Pages Fell 3.1% in 2011, With a Weak End to the Year  —  Declines in the second half of last year resulted in a overall drop in advertising pages in magazines for 2011 compared with 2010, according to a report distributed on Tuesday by the Publishers Information Bureau.
Adam Sherk:
News Organizations on Google+: Which Pages Get the Most Engagement?  —  News organizations (along with businesses of all kinds) have been able to create official Google+ pages for a couple months now so I thought I'd check in and see how their pages are doing.
Discussion: Mashable!, WebProNews and Poynter
David Hirschman / Street Fight:
Patch Traffic Triples Year-Over-Year, Claims Growth Across Network ‘Consistent’  —  Aol has been taking heat in recent months for its sizable investment in its Patch network of hyperlocal sites.  The company, which was built around a play for local banner advertising, reportedly cost …
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
John Solomon to Leave NewsBeast Editor to devote himself to startup By Lucia Moses  —  John Solomon, the muckraking journalist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast who secured an exclusive interview with the DSK maid, is leaving the company.  —  Solomon was a big get for NewsBeast editor Tina Brown …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Why the Future of TV Won't Be Here Soon  —  This is the year for many big pronouncements about The Future Of TV, and we're hearing the first round this week at the Consumer Electronics Show.  Here's how I'm sorting through the deluge: I'm ignoring almost all of it.
Discussion: PC Magazine and Company Town
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Jim Romenesko:
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts

Matt Mullenweg:
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Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal:
Google signs an agreement to purchase nuclear energy generated from multiple small modular reactors developed by Kairos Power, targeting 500 MW by 2035

 
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