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7:30 AM ET, January 31, 2014

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Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
China kills off discussion on Weibo after internet crackdown  —  Exclusive: An aggressive crackdown on Sina Weibo has seen numbers of postings on the Twitter-like microblogging site plummet according to research commissioned by the Telegraph  —  China has succeeded in neutering the country's …
Discussion: Tech in Asia and Tech in Asia
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Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Sina Weibo users set new messaging record, but is engagement on 'China's Twitter' falling?  —  China's Sina Weibo has broken its record for messages sent per minute, after 863,408 million ‘tweets’ were sent during the first minute of the Chinese New Year.  —  The record surpasses the previous best …
Discussion: Telegraph
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
The secret to having a successful paywall around your news is simple — it's about community  —  Everyone likes to point to the New York Times as the model for a news outlet with a successful paywall or online-subscription model, but as the authors of Columbia University's report on …
Discussion: @marklittlenews and The Dish
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Donna Tam / CNET:
Amazon considers $40 increase in Prime subscription fee  —  Amazon may increase its US Amazon Prime membership fee by $40 dollars more, the company's chief financial officer announced Thursday during an earnings call.  —  CFO Tom Szkutak said growing transportation costs may cause …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC president apologizes to RNC  —  MSNBC President Phil Griffin apologized to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Thursday for a tweet that suggested conservatives “hate” interracial marriages.  —  “The tweet last night was outrageous and unacceptable.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Be Careful at the Book Club, the Author Might Be There  —  The living room in the plush apartment on Central Park West was filled with all the trappings of a traditional book club.  —  A dozen people, mostly women, perched on sofas and armchairs with paperbacks on their laps.
Discussion: Melville House Books
Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
John Henry appoints Mike Sheehan CEO of the Globe, names himself publisher  —  Well-known Boston advertising executive Mike Sheehan will become chief executive officer of The Boston Globe, and the newspaper company's new owner, John Henry, will assume the role of publisher …
Reuters:
Editor of Spain's El Mundo exits after clash with government  —  (Reuters) - The influential founding editor of Spain's second-biggest newspaper, El Mundo, stepped down on Thursday after a decline in circulation and a series of revelations of alleged corruption in the ruling party.
Discussion: GlobalPost and In English Section
Christie Chisholm / Columbia Journalism Review:
Albuquerque's next newspaper is print first  —  The Free Press hopes to fill reporting gaps, one news rack at a time  —  In the spring of 2008, the Albuquerque Tribune published its last issue.  Though known for its solid reporting and stalwart voice—it had won a Pulitzer in 1994 …
Josh Stearns / Groundswell:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bite-Sized News  —  Last week the BBC launched Instafax, a short-form video newswire designed for Instagram where videos are limited to 15 seconds.  For now, the BBC is describing their project as an experiment, but the move is part of a much larger trend that, at one point, I scoffed at.
Discussion: @jcstearns
New York Times:
Hong Kong Paper Ousts Top Editor, Stirring Concern  —  HONG KONG — This city's Ming Pao newspaper has long stood for sober independence in a media market that is both brashly commercial and buffeted by political winds from China, its reporters pursuing and often breaking stories that irk the territory's overseers in Beijing.
Discussion: @nytimesworld
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Let's face it: social TV is dead  —  Okay, video startups, it's time to get real: That social TV thing you've been trying for the last couple years?  It's not working.  —  The evidence is all around us: A few days ago, Yahoo announced that it was shutting down Intonow, the social TV service it had acquired three years ago.
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
Net neutrality petition gets a million signatures  —  The advocacy group Free Press, along with a broad coalition of organizations, has delivered the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) a petition with a million signatures asking to restore the federal protections for net neutrality that were struck down in court two weeks ago.
Discussion: Free Press Blog
Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Uses Data to Charm Advertisers  —  Facebook Refined its Tools that Allow Advertisers to Target Users Based on Spending Habits in Brick and Mortar Stores  —  To make the journey from underachiever to advertising juggernaut, Facebook Inc. had to do some advertising of its own.
Discussion: @reedalbergotti
Sydney Morning Herald:
Australia's prime minister ready to pull the plug on public broadcaster's foreign service  —  Tony Abbott ready to pull the plug on ABC's foreign service  —  Prime Minister Tony Abbott has given a clear indication the government is moving towards stripping the ABC of its foreign broadcast service, the Australia Network.
Discussion: The Stream and Guardian
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Fox News once again most and least trusted name in news  —  PPP's 5th annual poll about trust in TV news continues to find what it does every year: Fox News is both the most trusted and least trusted name in news.  —  35% of Americans say they trust Fox News more than any other TV news outlet …
Adam L. Penenberg / PandoDaily:
Inside the mind of Jason Calacanis  —  Not long after Jason Calacanis raised $20 million in venture capital for Mahalo, his startup that was initially predicated on human-powered search, I flew to Los Angeles to profile him for a magazine.  I'm a native New Yorker who earlier in life …
Discussion: @sarahcuda and @pkafka
P.J. Bednarski / MediaPost:
Machinima COO Reeves Leaves to Rejoin Start-Up  —  Nanea Reeves, Machinima's chief operating officer since March 2012, left the company at the beginning of the year, is no longer with the company, VideoInk is reporting.  —  VideoInk said multiple sources confirmed that Reeves left the online gamer network …
Discussion: VideoInk
Jennifer Silber / Folio:
La Presse+ Sees Significant Gains in First 9 Months  —  New digital edition installed on more than 400,000 iPads.  —  The free digital edition of Montreal-based daily newspaper La Presse has seen tremendous increases in the last nine months.  Since its launch in April last year …
Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:
Pacific Standard is upping its Web game to “get the magazine in front of more eyeballs”  —  Pacific Standard is upping its Web game to “get the magazine in front of more eyeballs”  —  Pacific Standard has had an exciting January.  It's been the magazine's biggest traffic month ever, on track to hit 1.25 million uniques.
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Outside Magazine Gets into the Travel Business  —  Launches Outside Go to begin booking customized adventure excursions.  —  Mariah Media's Outside magazine has launched a new division that will begin booking the kind of adventure travel it's long been writing about.
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
N.F.L. creating digital channel: ‘NFL Now’  —  The National Football League is creating a new HD digital video channel called “N.F.L. Now.”  The channel, which launches this summer, will be available on any device, though apps for iOS, Android and Windows systems, and on web browsers through NFL.com/Now.
 
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Time Inc. Is Shutting Down Executive Travel Magazine
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