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3:02 AM ET, January 11, 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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Jim Romenesko:
Halifax waives non-compete clause for NYT Regional Media Group employees  —  From: McFarlin, Diane  —  To: !  STHQ-Sarasota Users  —  Subject: good news  —  Everyone:  —  Michael Redding has decided to waive the non-compete clause and the family relationship policies for all existing employees.
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Lawyer: Where's the journalist who leaves Halifax supposed to get a job?
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
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 …
Press Gazette:
Former Met officer arrested in phone-hack leaks probe  —  A former Scotland Yard officer was arrested today over allegations of unauthorised leaks to a journalist.  The 52-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of misconduct in public office after being detained at his Berkshire home …
Discussion: Guardian and Journalism.co.uk
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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 …
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.
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.
Suzanna Andrews / Vanity Fair:
The Mystery Woman Behind the Murdoch Mess  —  Rebekah Brooks was running the News of the World at 31, and Rupert Murdoch's entire British newspaper empire at 41.  A virtual member of the Murdoch family, close to Prime Ministers Blair, Brown, and Cameron, she relished her power—until the phone-hacking scandal took her down.
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
David D. Burstein / Fast Company:
The New York Times's Nick Kristof On Journalism In A Digital World And The Age Of Activism  —  Nicholas Kristof has been writing for The New York Times for more than a quarter century and has appeared on that paper's op-ed page since 2001, often penning articles about the struggles of people in distant parts of the world.
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 …
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.
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 …
Bill McClellan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Paper's go-to guy was caught between old, new business worlds  —  Robert Douglas was born in July 1952.  He was the third child and first son of Willie and Louise Douglas.  Eleven months after Robert's birth, the couple had another son.  —  Willie died shortly thereafter.
Alicia Shepard / Poynter:
Eric Carvin's social media goal: ‘To get to every last journalist at AP’  —  AP's new social media editor, Eric Carvin, 38, got his first computer in grade school.  His mom won the IBM PCjr. in one of many sweepstakes contests she regularly entered by mailing in dozens of postcards.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
Discovered on Publisher's Web Site, Aspiring Author Signs Book Deal  —  Penguin Group USA has plucked its first author from its new electronic slush pile.  —  Ace Books, an imprint of Penguin, has signed the debut novelist Kerry Schafer to a two-book deal, only weeks after Ms. Schafer posted writing samples …
 
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Josh Stearns / Save the News:
Journalists Need to Advocate for Better Media Policy
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
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Felicia Pride / FishbowlNY:
Bloomberg Hires New Global Head of Web
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Melissa Ulbricht / MediaShift Idea Lab:
Al Jazeera, Ushahidi Join in Project to Connect Somalia Diaspora via SMS
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John Seabrook / New Yorker:
Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube revolutionize television?
Alysia Santo / CJR:
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Discussion: Editors Weblog