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3:50 AM ET, January 23, 2014

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix Beats Analyst Expectations With 2.3M New Domestic Subscribers, Earnings Of 79 Cents A Share — Netflix just announced its fourth-quarter financial results, with the company beating analyst expectations. For the last three months, Netflix reported earnings of 79 cents per share on revenues of $1.175 billion.

Discussion: Forbes, CNET, MarketWatch, ZDNet, Reuters and Home Media Magazine

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Netflix's momentum continues with 2.33 million new US customers in Q4 — Netflix revealed its fourth quarter earnings today, capping off a banner year that saw the streaming service surpass HBO in subscriber count and earn critical acclaim for its original programming.

Discussion: Guardian, The Wrap, Bloomberg, @timjhanrahan, Mashable, BuzzFeed, @microfundy, @ceciliakang, Hollywood Reporter, Business Insider, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Netflix Says It Will Be Fine Without Net Neutrality Rules

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, Forbes, TechCrunch, ReadWrite and Quartz

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Plans ‘Substantial’ European Expansion in 2014

Discussion: Pocket-lint

Roberto Baldwin / Wired:

Tivo Lays Off Most of Its Design Team as It Transitions to the Cloud — Update: Tivo says it will continue to use third-party designers for hardware going forward. The article has been updated to reflect this fact. — Tivo has been bullish lately about releasing new software products beyond its core DVR boxes.

Discussion: TIME, Engadget, The Verge, Gigaom, @mccarron, Pocket-lint, Business Insider and ParisLemon

Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:

Cord-Cutting Study Comes Down as Cable Nets Cry Foul — HBO, Showtime and Starz release stats on subscriber growth after a NPD Group study, no longer on the firm's website, claims households with premium cable are on the decline. — Within a day of research firm NPD Group releasing its State …

Discussion: The Wrap

TIME:
HBO and Showtime Strike Back: Subscriptions Aren't Actually Down

Discussion: BGR, WebProNews, The Verge, Los Angeles Times and Engadget

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer banned by AP after photo alteration — The Associated Press announced Wednesday that it has ended its relationship with Narciso Contreras, a Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance photographer who altered a photo that he took last September in Syria.

Discussion: THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE, Guardian and BuzzFeed

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

With Trove, Ex-WaPo Labs Team Takes Another Try at Social Reading — How do you get your daily news? — It's a question that any 21st century news organization is asking itself — a question all too familiar for a guy like Vijay Ravindran. As the chief digital officer of Graham Holdings …

Discussion: cnbc.com and Washington Post

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
The news curation game gets another entrant as the WaPo's former owner relaunches Trove

Discussion: NYT Bits, Business Insider, PandoDaily, Mashable, @niemanlab, The Verge, TechCrunch, @lheron and @mims, Thanks:@mathewi

John Cassidy / The New Yorker Blog:

Maybe Ezra Klein and Jeff Bezos Are Both Right — The rumors were true: Ezra Klein, the creator of the Washington Post's Wonkblog, is leaving the paper to start a new venture with a couple of his colleagues. In my bit of the Twitterverse, the general reaction appears to be that Jeff Bezos …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, @gregorydjohnsen, @murraymatt, @jtes, @joshuafoust, @tnyjohncassidy, Mediaite, Capital New York, LA Observed and American Spectator

Marina Walker Guevara / The Global Muckraker:

How a multinational journalism team investigated the offshore holdings of China's elite — How we did Offshore Leaks China — A multinational team of journalists spent months combing through secret tax haven records revealing offshore holdings of China's rich and powerful.

Discussion: New York Times, Poynter, icij.org, Guardian, @icijorg, Bloomberg and BBC

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Grantland's editorial failure with Dr. V story is best argument yet for diversity in newsrooms — Joy's Law for journalism — “Events by which 'Dr. V's Magical Putter' came to be published are now the best argument I have for you on diversity in the newsroom. Here is what can happen when you are not diverse enough.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Gawker, @jayrosen_nyu, @stevesilberman, @zeynep and Kirk LaPointe's …

Mike Giglio / BuzzFeed:

Syria Citizen-Journalists Come To Switzerland To Cover Peace Talks, Get Attacked By Assad Supporters — Citizen-journalists, who have helped to show the world Syria's war, are now covering the peace conference in Switzerland.They're still getting used to the idea of being so close to the regime …

Jack Marshall / Digiday:

The Rise of the Publisher Trading Desk — Major publishers have accepted that programmatic advertising is here to stay, and most now sell significant portions of their ad space that way. Now a handful are taking their ad tech experiments a step further, using it to buy inventory …

Tom Engelhardt / Tom Dispatch:

The Golden Age of Journalism? — It was 1949. My mother — known in the gossip columns of that era as “New York's girl caricaturist” — was freelancing theatrical sketches to a number of New York's newspapers and magazines, including the Brooklyn Eagle. That paper, then more than a century old …

Discussion: Guardian

Maria Konnikova / The New Yorker Blog:

The Six Things That Make Stories Go Viral Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, You — When Jonah Berger was a graduate student at Stanford, in the early aughts, he would make a habit of reading page A2 of the Wall Street Journal, which included a list of the five most-read and the five most-shared articles of the day.

Discussion: @alisonhallett, Gothamist, @millie, @actualkris, @brainpicker, @10000words, @mathewi and @utlibraries

Heather Murphy / The Lede:

Targeted text message sends chills to protesters and journalists in Ukraine — Ominous Text Message Sent to Protesters in Kiev Sends Chills Around the Internet — As my colleague Andrew Kramer reported, protesters and journalists standing in the vicinity of fighting between the riot police …

Discussion: TechCrunch, @mattbuchanan, The Independent, @crimethinc, Techdirt, Gawker, The Verge and Mashable

John Paul Titlow / Co.Labs:

Under The Hood Of The New NYTimes.com — For media companies, the pace of technological change can be unforgiving. The New York Times, well-staffed as it may be, is no exception. To meet rapidly changing business goals and reader expectations, the tech team there recently pulled off …

Discussion: @remmons and Cision

Sam Petulla / The Content Strategist:

An Interview With Jay Rosen on the Future of Native — A few days before Christmas, one of the smartest minds in journalism tweeted one of the most intriguing definitions of native advertising we've seen. — Rosen, a renowned NYU journalism professor and author of the PressThink blog, sparked a lively debate with the tweet.

Discussion: AdExchanger and Re/code

Rebecca Bowe / sfbg.com:

San Francisco Bay Guardian launches tool for anonymous submissions powered by SecureDrop — Hey whistleblowers — We want your leaks! — rebecca@sfbg.com — The San Francisco Bay Guardian newsroom is tapping some high-tech tools to continue its journalistic mission.

Discussion: @xor

Sam Thielman / Adweek:

Viacom's Branded Content Play Is the Latest Among Cable Giants — Viacom is doing at scale something that TV entertainment companies—especially those with a wide footprint in the unscripted world—are treating like the advertising success of the future: It's creating a full division devoted to branded content.

Discussion: Variety and Broadcasting & Cable

Los Angeles Times:

Sony Pictures lays off employees in technology group, including leader — Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) — Sony Pictures Entertainment has laid off an undisclosed number of people from its Sony Pictures Technologies group, including the unit's president, Chris Cookson.

Discussion: Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Bloomberg

Reuters:

Massive Internet mishap sparks Great Firewall scrutiny in China — (Reuters) - Human error likely caused a glitch in China's Great Firewall that saw millions of Internet users ironically rerouted to the homepage of a U.S.-based company which helps people evade Beijing's web censorship, sources told Reuters.

Discussion: NYT Bits, NBCNews, CNN, @jonrussell, @adampasick and CNET

Sarah Marshall:

News in your pocket: Mobile-first journalism at WSJ — In one of the sessions at DJ@DJ, a Wall Street Journal training course which I dropped into when I was at head office in New York last week, Neal Mann talked through developments in mobile at the Journal and beyond. — Mobile video

Garett Sloane / Adweek:

Twitter's 2014 Strategy: The Intersection of Video and Data — Twitter is doubling down on its second-screen pitch. — The company has been meeting with agencies and brands since the beginning of the year, showing off its ad product road map in an attempt to counter Facebook's push into video …

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing.com:

News UK CEO: “A big bundle is a very efficient mechanism which works remarkably well” — News UK is unusual among newspaper groups in taking a hardline approach to digital subscriptions, eschewing metered models for an offer that provides online access to the whole bundle, or none of it.

Discussion: @raju and @hobbb, Thanks:@henryctaylor