Former News of the World editor Colin Myler - the paper's last edtior, in charge during the fallout after the phone-hacking scandal - is to become editor-in-chief at the New York Daily News, where his key rival will be Murdoch's New York Daily Post the Guardian reported.
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Also in the wake of the hacking scandal, Metropolitan police have been warned against a "cosy relationship with the press". The report, by former parliamentary commissioner Elizabeth Filkin, calls for tighter controls over how the Met Police service deals with journalists to prevent erosion of trust in police not just among the public, but among police ranks, the Guardian says.

If your New Year's resolution is learning to program, you should sign up for Code Year, a new project that aims to teach neophytes the basics of programming over the course of 2012, Slate reported. Code Year's minimum commitment is one new lesson every week. The company says that it will take a person of average technical skill about five hours to complete a lesson, so you're looking at about an hour of training every weekday, the article says.

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