Mediagazer: Amazon's best season saw 1M new Prime members a week, 426 items sold per second (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

2:35 PM ET, December 26, 2013

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Mariia Shamota / Kyiv Post:

Prominent journalist, civic activist Chornovol beaten near Kyiv (UPDATED) — Prominent Ukrainian journalist and civic activist Tetyana Chornovol was brutally beaten outside Kyiv just after midnight on Dec. 25. — hornovol is in reconstructive surgery now, opposition Batkivshchyna Party member of parliament Serhiy Pasynsky said.

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Nicholas Watt / Guardian:

Cameron warns UK press: sign up to royal charter or else — PM says UK press risks ‘hideous statutory regulation’ in future if it declines to seek recognition under terms of new royal charter — David Cameron has warned the press that it runs the risk of facing “hideous statutory regulation” …

Discussion: Spectator

Slate:

Tom Wheeler net neutrality: Is the new FCC chairman changing his tune? — This piece originally appeared in the New America Foundation's Weekly Wonk. New America is a partner with Slate and Arizona State University in Future Tense. — As the new Federal Communications Commission chairman …

Discussion: Gigaom

Neda Ulaby / NPR:

A YouTube Powerhouse Looks Beyond Its Gamer Base … One of the most popular channels on YouTube is aimed toward people who play video games. It's got tons of content — thousands of game reviews, how-to videos of people gaming away enthusiastically, even little homemade movies that people have made using video-game software.

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon's best season saw 1M new Prime members a week, 426 items sold per second — Amazon Prime tops 20 million members as company touts its best holiday season ever — Amazon is exiting the 2013 holiday season with “tens of millions” of Amazon Prime members, according to a statement …

Discussion: Businessweek, AllThingsD and Gigaom

Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:

Scores of Music Services Stream Into Crowded Field — Many of the New Models Will Focus on Genre — The number of music-streaming services is set to explode next year, as record labels have warmed up to the idea of renting consumers access to a vast collection of tunes, rather than selling them individual albums or songs.

Discussion: @zseward

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Migrahack brings together journalists, programmers and community — Immigration stories usually have numbers. But immigration numbers have stories of their own. Many journalists work with these numbers — they gather them, use them and report them. But while the numbers get told, the stories behind them often don't.

Discussion: @poynter

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Google penalizes ranking of lyrics site Rap Genius for SEO practices, founders seek resolution — Google Destroys Rap Genius' Search Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam, But Resolution In Progress — Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks …

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RT:

Saudi blogger may face death penalty for apostasy — Saudi blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, currently serving his 7-year prison term for “insulting Islam”, may soon appear in a higher court on graver charges of apostasy. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to death.

Discussion: CNN, MyFOX8.com, @rwwwb, carbonated.tv, @amani_lebanon and Journal Of Turkish Weekly

New York Times:

Are You Qualified to Be a Journalist in China? Take the Test — What is the essence of the Chinese Dream? What did Marx and Engels ask of newspaper reporters? How do Chinese and Western views on journalism differ? — Those are some of the questions Chinese journalists can expect …

Discussion: @raju, @markmackinnon, @mountainrunner and @macloo

Roberto A. Ferdman / Quartz:

The US now watches the majority of its online porn on mobile phones — Pornography has always been a pioneering industry online, pushing internet technology, business models, and usage forward more than is often acknowledged. — New data from video porn website Pornhub …

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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

Mobile photography magazine FLTR launches as iPhone-only app — Journalist Q&A: Olivier Laurent, editor of new digital magazine FLTR — Associate editor of British Journal of Photography and editor of recently-launched FLTR Olivier Laurent answers questions on the iPhone-only digital magazine dedicated to mobile photography