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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Beats Amazon's Streaming Lineup for Top Movies, TV Shows — Hulu Plus remains ahead of Netflix in licensing current top-rated TV shows, according to Piper Jaffray analysis — Netflix continues to outpace Amazon.com's subscription-video service on the content-licensing front …
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Deadline.com, Benzinga, Quartz and Wall Street Journal
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
HuffPost UK EIC Carla Buzasi stepping down, being replaced by Stephen Hull — Carla Buzasi to leave Huffington Post — Stephen Hull steps up as site's UK founding editor joins fashion data and insight firm WGSN as global chief content officer — Huffington Post UK has lost its founding editor …
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Press Gazette, @chrisdeerin, @marksweney and @carlabuzasi
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA employee's quest to release information ‘destroyed my entire career’ — His CIA career included assignments in Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq, but the most perilous posting for Jeffrey Scudder turned out to be a two-year stint in a sleepy office that looks after the agency's historical files.
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Mother Jones, @ggreenwald, @jayrosen_nyu, @codinghorror and The Verge
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Conservative columnist David Brooks on what it's like to work at the left-leaning NYT — What it's like to be a conservative columnist at the New York Times — ASPEN, Colo. — New York Times columnist David Brooks gets a lot of hate mail. And he doesn't read the comments section.
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The New York Observer, @davidsirota, @morningmoneyben and New York Magazine
Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Egyptian president says he wished the Al Jazeera journalists were never put on trial — EGYPT LEADER WISHES JOURNALISTS WEREN'T TRIED — CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president acknowledged for the first time that the heavy sentences handed down to three Al-Jazeera journalists had a “very negative” …
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Mark Colvin / ABC:
Peter Greste's parents meet up with son for first time since arrest
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@hunderhi, @hamishnews, @flip_stewart, @sommervillebbc and BBC
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
YouTube partners with Indian carrier to offer pre-paid mobile streaming from just $0.15 — YouTube is focusing on mobile in India after the Google owned-video site teamed up with operator Tata Docomo to offer a new range of ‘YouTube recharge’ data plans to its 3G customers.
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The Economic Times and Tech2
Alexander Eule / Barron's Online:
Amid TV consolidation, Dish Network looks like odd man out, but spectrum could raise its value — Dish Network's Ace in the Hole — Mobile video could shake up the media industry. And Dish's chairman could help his stock rise 20%. — These are lonely days for Dish Network, the nation's third-largest pay-TV provider.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Investigation shows NSA tracks individuals who search for news articles about privacy tools like Tor and Tails — If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance … In a shocking story on the German site Tages Schau (Google translate), Lena Kampf …
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Washington Post, Das Erste, @pedroelrey, @wilw, @beep, Motherboard, @dangillmor, @antderosa, TechCrunch, Linux Journal and Engadget
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
John Oliver and HBO shake up TV's comedy-news genre by incorporating investigative journalism — How John Oliver and HBO Shattered TV's Comedy-News Format — Analysis: By adding a hint of investigative journalism, ‘Last Week Tonight’ is coming up with story segments that in some cases are longer than those on ‘60 Minutes’
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TVNewser, The Wrap, @bristei, @variety_dscohen, @ceciliaromanq and @yvonneleow
Robert Israel / The Content Standard:
Walt Mossberg of Re/code: Reimagining Tech Journalism — Walt Mossberg, whose tech journalism beat for The Wall Street Journal introduced readers to Bill Gates, George Lucas, the late Steve Jobs, and many other technology innovators, evolved after he had worked at the newspaper for many years.
Ian Johnson / New York Times:
Semiprivate social network WeChat eclipses public network Weibo as Chinese censors crack down — An Online Shift in China Muffles an Open Forum — BEIJING — For the past few years, social media in China has been dominated by the Twitter-like Sina Weibo, a microblogging service that created …
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@monkbent, @peterwsinger, @kenroth, @jwassers and @dkroy
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Byliner gone bad and the business of longform journalism on the web — On Christmas Eve Day in 2012, I sat in a Starbucks and wrote an enthusiastic post about why it had been the year of the e-single. E-singles — works of journalism between 3,000 to 15,000 words, usually nonfiction and sold …
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@rogerblack, @agwieckowski and @sarahw
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