Mediagazer: Leveson inquiry: Google asked to remove dozens of web pages for national security (Gordon Rayner/Telegraph)

12:25 PM ET, January 26, 2012

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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:

Leveson inquiry: Google asked to remove dozens of web pages for national security — Google received 65 requests from the Government to remove web pages from its database in the first half of last year, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. National security was “the single biggest category” …

Press Gazette:

Google removed hundreds of Max Mosley web pages — Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley's sex life from its search results index, the Leveson Inquiry heard. — But the internet giant said it dealt with requests for material to be excluded …

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Former Liberian dictator threatens to sue Boston Globe — Days before the Boston Globe published a withering editor's note essentially retracting its Jan. 17 story about former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's alleged ties to the CIA, African news sources were reporting that Taylor was threatening to sue the Globe for libel.

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BuzzFeed:

Right Launches Giant Campaign Against Media — A conservative media watchdog says it's launching a $5 million assault on the mainstream media today to beat back “an onslaught of character assassination against anyone who dares to challenge Obama.” Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell …

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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

A Decline in Viewers for State of the Union Address — There were an estimated 37.8 million television viewers of President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the lowest total in his presidency. — The State of the Union address Tuesday night was seen by 37.8 million television viewers …

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
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Ben Fritz / Company Town:

Netflix deal with Warner Bros. includes delay in queues — Under a new deal between the two companies, Netflix users won't just have to wait 56 days to rent Warner Bros. movies on DVD. They'll have to wait 28 days to add the movies to their queues. — As part of the Warner's continuing effort …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Bounces Back With a Q4 Beat, but Says Amazon Is Coming

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix streaming users now outnumber DVD subscribers 2:1

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@pressgazette:

ABC: Mail Online down 5 per cent in December http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ ... http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ ...

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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Latest numbers indicate New York Times traffic is flat since paywall

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Erik Wemple:
How to generate Web traffic: Don't link

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Adam Penenberg / Fast Company:

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Guardian pins digital future on citizen journalism — The Guardian is on a “mission” to be able to stand alone as a digital-only publication, and is mixing its stable of traditional journalists with enthusiastic laypeople, one of its most senior executives has claimed.

Discussion: Forbes

George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:

CNN.com Tops 100 Million Video Starts Per Month in 2011 — CNN has released data showing that an average of more than 73 million people visited CNN's digital platforms each month in 2011 and that CNN.com served up an average of 101.3 million video starts each month last year, up 10% from the 2010 monthly average.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Discussion: Poynter, The New York Observer and NYConvergence.com

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

New Facebook data: Be topical, ask questions, and tell jokes to win audience — Write about current affairs. Add in a little commentary (or a question). And, for the love of all that is holy, include a link. — Those are three of the takeaways from some new data that Facebook just released …

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News.me:

Getting the News - Zach Seward — This week we reached out to Zach Seward, editor of outreach and social media for the Wall Street Journal. In addition to his writing and editing at the Journal, Zach teaches a class on digital media at NYU. He's working at the intersection of social media and news every day.