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4:25 PM ET, February 5, 2014

Top News:

Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg:

News Corp. Paper Made 6,813 Phone-Hacking Calls in 2 Years — News Corp. (NWSA) journalists and a private investigator employed by the company's News of the World tabloid made 6,813 calls targeting 282 voice mails during 2005 and 2006, according to billing data analyzed by police.

Discussion: London News and Yorkshire Post

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and others may not know fate until summer

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone-hacking jury sees letter exposing Brooks and Coulson affair

Discussion: @guardian

Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:

The Tyranny and Lethargy of the Times Editorial Page — Reporters in ‘semi-open revolt’ against Andrew Rosenthal — IT'S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at The Wall Street Journal resent the conservative-leaning editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @nytfridge, @rkylesmith, @kerpen, Mediaite, @mattyglesias, @tamarsternthal, Gawker, @dlknowles, @alexrkonrad, @nbj914, @nathanking, @africasacountry, @jackmirkinson, @efune, @gadyepstein, bookforum.com and New York Magazine

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Abramson hits back at Observer editor's ‘crazy rant’

Discussion: Mediaite, Capital New York and @fstonenyt

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Times May Publish Response from Woody Allen on Dylan Farrow's Accusations — Woody Allen has asked for, and may get, a chance to respond — in an Op-Ed piece in The Times — to a recent column and blog by Nicholas Kristof in which the filmmaker's adopted daughter detailed her memories of his sexually abusing her.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Post's Marty Baron responds to the departure of three more Wonkbloggers — Washington Post's Brad Plumer, Sarah Kliff Joining Ezra Klein's Vox Venture — NEW YORK — The Washington Post's Brad Plumer and Sarah Kliff are joining Ezra Klein's new venture to be launched with Vox Media …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
How Will Ezra Klein's ‘Project X’ Add Context to News?

Discussion: @1bobcohn and @jayrosen_nyu

John McDuling / Quartz:

Netflix might have more subscribers, but HBO makes more money — HBO, the premium cable channel behind hit shows like Girls, Game of Thrones and True Detective, just capped off a record year, according to its parent, Time Warner Inc, which reported results this morning.

Discussion: Reuters, Variety, BuzzFeed, @zseward, Business Insider and The Verge

Bree Fowler / Associated Press:
Time Warner 4Q net income falls 12 pct

Discussion: Variety, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Corporate Intelligence, USA Today and New York Times

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Animated Videos, Tweets, Overseas Dispatches All Part of NBC News Digital Overhaul — With control of its digital properties under its sole control at long last, NBC News said it would present a radically different face for web and mobile users in the hopes of giving the NBCUniversal unit …

Discussion: Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and @hilella

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
NBCNews.com Gets a Remake for Its Post-Microsoft Life

Discussion: The Huffington Post and NewscastStudio

Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:

The Big Bet: NBC Thinks More Digital Coverage Means Better Olympics Ratings — What's This? — NBC's last Olympics was either a rousing success or a spectacular failure, depending on who you ask. — The failures, as some called aspects of the coverage, were painstakingly documented …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, @jasonabbruzzese, MGOBLUE.COM, Mashable, Variety and Forbes

Ronald Grover / Reuters: NBC boosts sports cable channel with live Olympic events

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Mail Online's rip-off practice is tawdry - but is Mike Darcey jealous of its success? — News UK chief executive says the website shouldn't be confused with a business based on professional journalism — In his sometimes combative speech yesterday, News UK's chief executive Mike Darcey waded …

Discussion: @guardian, @abeaujon and Press Gazette

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Daily Mail publisher reports that website's ad revenues increased by 48% to £14m in the final three months of 2013

Discussion: Press Gazette and @mediaguardian

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Guild angry at Reuters over pay snafu — The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents business journalists at Reuters, sent the following letter to James Smith, the chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters:

Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Guardian hires Matt Sullivan as U.S. opinion editor — Matt Sullivan is leaving The New York Times to become opinion editor for The Guardian's American digital news operation, replacing a staffer who in turn left for The Times. — In his new role, Sullivan, 29, will corral contributors …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @sullduggery and @matthewwells

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

As The New York Times debuts its template for native ads, will other newspapers follow? — When The New York Times offered the first native ad on its website Jan. 8, reviews were mixed. Some thought the Times offered too much of a good thing with a half-dozen disclaimers that the story-like piece was advertising.

Discussion: @niemanlab, Forbes, iMedia Connection and the Econsultancy blog

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Big media still has plenty of muscle — ESPN and anchor Chris Berman drive value for Disney. — There may be 500 channels and almost $80 billion in advertising and subscriber revenue in the television industry, but most of that content and cash is controlled by a handful of companies.

Discussion: @latimesbiz

Re/code:

Long-Time Google Ads Exec Susan Wojcicki is YouTube's New Boss — Susan Wojcicki, SVP of advertising for Google, will lead its YouTube unit, sources said. — The news was first reported as likely by The Information late Tuesday night. — Wojcicki was employee No. 16 at Google …

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

Pandora Meets Analysts Revenue Expectations — Pandora just announced its Q4 earnings. — Here are Pandora's Q4 numbers: — Revenue: $200.8 million — Analysts were expecting an EPS of $0.08 and revenues of $201 million. — Pandora, on the other hand, expected revenues between $185 million …

Discussion: @jowens510 and Pandora

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Guardian says News UK criticism of its business model ‘flawed argument based on flawed data’ — Guardian News and Media has accused News UK chief executive Mike Darcey of using “flawed data to inform flawed arguments” when he criticised the group's business model yesterday.

Discussion: @leshinton

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Twitter beats expectations and surges to small profit in its first earnings report — Twitter beat expectations today in its first earnings report since going public in November, earning 2 cents per share on $242.7 million in revenues last quarter. They company had 241 million monthly active users …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Digits, NetNewsCheck Latest and Digits

Gideon Spanier / London Evening Standard:

The media industry must measure up — The media business does not do a good enough job of measuring its own performance. Newspapers and magazines have been particularly poor at producing meaningful circulation and readership figures that combine print and digital.

Discussion: @karenmcgrane, @leshinton, @hintonkath and @niemanlab

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

BT launches UK pay-to-own service for films, TV box sets coming soon — BT is now offering its YouView box-equipped TV customers the option to purchase movies aired on the service from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Discussion: home.bt.com, thedrum.com and Pocket-lint

Guardian:

Have 24-hour TV news channels had their day? — The former director of BBC News, Richard Sambrook, and its ex-head of strategy, Sean McGuire, argue that digital technology has left rolling news channels outmoded — CNN's Peter Arnett reports from Baghdad in 1991: rolling news's finest hour?

Brian Fung / The Switch:

Verizon denies using net neutrality victory to sabotage Netflix, Amazon — After a federal court said last month that the government couldn't prohibit Internet providers from slowing or blocking Web traffic, at least one ISP is being accused of taking advantage of the ruling.

Discussion: Dave's Blog, BGR, Free Press Blog, @timkarr and The Verge

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

New York Times to Debut Video ‘Channel’ Slate at NewFronts — The New York Times is organizing its video operation into topic channels and will soon make them available across its site, on Apps, via connected TV's and other devices. This new offering will debut at the upcoming Digital Content NewFronts …