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4:56 PM ET, February 5, 2014

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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

In Q4, Pandora posts highest profit as public company — The Internet's biggest radio service had its biggest quarterly earnings since its IPO in 2011, but investors were dismayed that the windfall would be short-lived, based on Pandora's Q1 loss forecast. — Pandora Media …

Discussion: Business Insider and Pandora

cnbc.com:
Twitter skids 13% on user growth, but earnings beat

Discussion: Lost Remote

Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter beats earnings expectations, but stock slides as user growth plateaus

Discussion: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Digits, Bloomberg, NetNewsCheck Latest, @twitterir, @corytv, @tim, @verge, @jowens510 and Digits

Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg:

News Corp. Paper Made 6,813 Phone-Hacking Calls in 2 Years — News Corp. (NWSA) journalists and a private investigator employed by the company's News of the World tabloid made 6,813 calls targeting 282 voice mails during 2005 and 2006, according to billing data analyzed by police.

Discussion: London News and Yorkshire Post

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and others may not know fate until summer

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone-hacking jury sees letter exposing Brooks and Coulson affair

Discussion: @guardian

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Times May Publish Response from Woody Allen on Dylan Farrow's Accusations — Woody Allen has asked for, and may get, a chance to respond — in an Op-Ed piece in The Times — to a recent column and blog by Nicholas Kristof in which the filmmaker's adopted daughter detailed her memories of his sexually abusing her.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Post's Marty Baron responds to the departure of three more Wonkbloggers — Washington Post's Brad Plumer, Sarah Kliff Joining Ezra Klein's Vox Venture — NEW YORK — The Washington Post's Brad Plumer and Sarah Kliff are joining Ezra Klein's new venture to be launched with Vox Media …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
How Will Ezra Klein's ‘Project X’ Add Context to News?

Discussion: @1bobcohn and @jayrosen_nyu

Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:

The Tyranny and Lethargy of the Times Editorial Page — Reporters in ‘semi-open revolt’ against Andrew Rosenthal — IT'S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at The Wall Street Journal resent the conservative-leaning editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @nytfridge, @rkylesmith, @kerpen, Mediaite, @mattyglesias, @tamarsternthal, Gawker, @dlknowles, @alexrkonrad, bookforum.com, @nbj914, @nathanking, @africasacountry, @jackmirkinson, @efune, @gadyepstein and New York Magazine

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Abramson hits back at Observer editor's ‘crazy rant’

Discussion: Mediaite, Capital New York and @fstonenyt

John McDuling / Quartz:

Netflix might have more subscribers, but HBO makes more money — HBO, the premium cable channel behind hit shows like Girls, Game of Thrones and True Detective, just capped off a record year, according to its parent, Time Warner Inc, which reported results this morning.

Discussion: Reuters, Variety, BuzzFeed, @zseward, Business Insider and The Verge

Bree Fowler / Associated Press:
Time Warner 4Q net income falls 12 pct

Discussion: Variety, Los Angeles Times, Corporate Intelligence, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and New York Times

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Animated Videos, Tweets, Overseas Dispatches All Part of NBC News Digital Overhaul — With control of its digital properties under its sole control at long last, NBC News said it would present a radically different face for web and mobile users in the hopes of giving the NBCUniversal unit …

Discussion: Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and @hilella

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
NBCNews.com Gets a Remake for Its Post-Microsoft Life

Discussion: The Huffington Post and NewscastStudio

Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:

The Big Bet: NBC Thinks More Digital Coverage Means Better Olympics Ratings — What's This? — NBC's last Olympics was either a rousing success or a spectacular failure, depending on who you ask. — The failures, as some called aspects of the coverage, were painstakingly documented …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, @jasonabbruzzese, MGOBLUE.COM, Mashable, Variety and Forbes

Ronald Grover / Reuters: NBC boosts sports cable channel with live Olympic events

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Mail Online's rip-off practice is tawdry - but is Mike Darcey jealous of its success? — News UK chief executive says the website shouldn't be confused with a business based on professional journalism — In his sometimes combative speech yesterday, News UK's chief executive Mike Darcey waded …

Discussion: @guardian, @abeaujon and Press Gazette

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Daily Mail publisher reports that website's ad revenues increased by 48% to £14m in the final three months of 2013

Discussion: Press Gazette and @mediaguardian

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Guild angry at Reuters over pay snafu — The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents business journalists at Reuters, sent the following letter to James Smith, the chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters:

Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Guardian hires Matt Sullivan as U.S. opinion editor — Matt Sullivan is leaving The New York Times to become opinion editor for The Guardian's American digital news operation, replacing a staffer who in turn left for The Times. — In his new role, Sullivan, 29, will corral contributors …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @sullduggery and @matthewwells

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

As The New York Times debuts its template for native ads, will other newspapers follow? — When The New York Times offered the first native ad on its website Jan. 8, reviews were mixed. Some thought the Times offered too much of a good thing with a half-dozen disclaimers that the story-like piece was advertising.

Discussion: @niemanlab, Forbes, iMedia Connection and the Econsultancy blog

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Big media still has plenty of muscle — ESPN and anchor Chris Berman drive value for Disney. — There may be 500 channels and almost $80 billion in advertising and subscriber revenue in the television industry, but most of that content and cash is controlled by a handful of companies.

Discussion: @latimesbiz

Re/code:

Long-Time Google Ads Exec Susan Wojcicki is YouTube's New Boss — Susan Wojcicki, SVP of advertising for Google, will lead its YouTube unit, sources said. — The news was first reported as likely by The Information late Tuesday night. — Wojcicki was employee No. 16 at Google …

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Guardian says News UK criticism of its business model ‘flawed argument based on flawed data’ — Guardian News and Media has accused News UK chief executive Mike Darcey of using “flawed data to inform flawed arguments” when he criticised the group's business model yesterday.

Discussion: @leshinton

Gideon Spanier / London Evening Standard:

The media industry must measure up — The media business does not do a good enough job of measuring its own performance. Newspapers and magazines have been particularly poor at producing meaningful circulation and readership figures that combine print and digital.

Discussion: @karenmcgrane, @leshinton, @hintonkath and @niemanlab

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

BT launches UK pay-to-own service for films, TV box sets coming soon — BT is now offering its YouView box-equipped TV customers the option to purchase movies aired on the service from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Discussion: home.bt.com, thedrum.com and Pocket-lint