Mediagazer: Viacom to invest in Arabic content and production (Ben Flanagan/The National)

6:00 PM ET, February 5, 2013

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Mat Honan / Wired:

Why Vine's Going to Grow Into Something Huge — The very best things we make are the things that allow us to make even better things: tools that create connections and empower creativity. The latest of these is Vine, Twitter's remarkable new video sharing app. — Vine lets people shoot and share six-second looped videos.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Chris Hughes hopes TNR will profit by 2015, floats retail spaces — New Republic owner and publisher Chris Hughes said today that he hopes to make the magazine profitable by 2015 — no small feat for a magazine that featured very little advertising when it relaunched last month.

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Bloomberg:

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Press Gazette:

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Matt Chaban / Crain's New York:

Daily News is coming home, nearly — The Daily News is coming back to Manhattan. The paper, which was washed out of its offices at 4 New York Plaza downtown by Superstorm Sandy, and has been running the bulk of its operations out of its printing plant in Jersey City, N.J. has signed a short-term lease for space at 1290 Sixth Ave.

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“The brain of the New York Times, the body of BuzzFeed” — Slate's third act — Slate started life as as a scrappy web pioneer under Microsoft in 1996. Since then, it has gone on to carve out an enviable perch in the liberal media establishment as part of the Washington Post Company.

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Can a Twitter user really prohibit you from republishing tweets? — Tim Cushing explains what happened when Teri Buhl, an “investigative journalist covering finance/Wall Street,” declared in her Twitter bio that “No tweets are publishable.” — A couple people who noticed the disclaimer questioned it.

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Ben Flanagan / The National:

Viacom to invest in Arabic content and production — The American media giant behind MTV and Nickelodeon plans to invest in Arabic content as it looks to grow its presence in the Middle East. Viacom, which is listed on the Nasdaq exchange, says local productions and events centered around …

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

iTunes launches Breakout Books section to highlight self-published titles — Amazon intensely promotes self-published Kindle books, and now Apple is taking steps toward doing the same thing. The company has launched a new section of the iBookstore, “Breakout Books,” a …

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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

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Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York:

Court rules in favor of NYPD: ‘Times’ can't have addresses of handgun-license holders — Today, an appellate court ruled against the New York Times in a suit about gun permits, and public access to an electronic database containing the addresses of permit-holders, arguing that a lower-court judge had …

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Kate Holton / Reuters:

Malone eyes Virgin Media in challenge to Murdoch — (Reuters) - John Malone's Liberty Global has opened talks with Britain's Virgin Media over a takeover that would increase the U.S. cable group's dominance in Europe and step up a challenge to media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

N.J. judge revives blogger vs. journalist debate — Union County, N.J., prosecutors demanded Tina Renna give them “the names of 16 government officials who she accused online of misusing county generators after Hurricane Sandy,” Lilly Chapa reports. Renna claimed privilege …

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Turner Broadcasting Names Giorgio Stock President of EMEA Region — The former Walt Disney consumer products, publishing and retail executive says he sees opportunity to expand brands and franchises across platforms. — Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting said Tuesday that it has hired …

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Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:

The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show — With Netflix's foray into original, high quality programming today, the streaming TV network wants to turn into the HBO of Internet TV, but can the network afford it? Putting together a big production with famous actors like House …

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