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Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Unless It Removes Tweets Containing Hacked Emails — Sony's battle on people disseminating its hacked and leaked emails has extended from news outlets to random Twitter users to, now, Twitter itself. Sony's lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action …
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Rolling Stone Outsources Internal Investigation of Botched UVA Rape Story to Columbia Journalism School — Rolling Stone Magazine added a new editor's note to its inaccurate University of Virginia campus rape story Monday. — Also Read: Rolling Stone UVA Rape Controversy: Friends of Alleged Victim Remember It Differently
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Washington Post, @brianstelter, The Huffington Post, @brianstelter, FishbowlNY, @erikwemple and @erikwemple


New Republic Editor Gabriel Snyder Promises Ambitious Journalism, More Diverse Voices — NEW YORK — Gabriel Snyder, who was tapped as editor-in-chief of The New Republic amid a recent staff exodus, wrote in his first editor's note that the 100-year-old magazine “has always been both in love and at war with its prior self.”


HuffPost plans to drop AP stories, relaunch site in 2015 — Heading into the new year, The Huffington Post is planning to stop using Associated Press stories while increasing its reporter headcount, gearing up for a relaunch and rolling out more international editions.
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@alexweprin, @sarahw, @samsteinhp, @clarajeffery, @alexweprin and @katienelson


DirecTV Launches First Over-the-Top Video Service, Yaveo, for U.S. Hispanic Audiences — DirecTV, seeking a revenue stream beyond pay TV, has launched Yaveo: its first Internet-only subscription video service aimed at U.S. Hispanic consumers, with partners including Viacom and broadcast giant Univision Communications.
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Multichannel News, AdAge, Home Media Magazine and BroadwayWorld.com


Hacking at Sony Over ‘The Interview’ Reveals Hollywood's Failings, Too — Kim Jong-un, who appears to be America's newly self-appointed minister of culture, has decided that “The Interview,” the Seth Rogen film about North Korea that includes Mr. Kim's assassination, will not be released.


Tribune Media sells Baltimore Sun printing-plant real estate, will net about $30M; Sun retains long-term lease — Tribune Media cashes in on real estate portfolio … (AP) — Tribune Media is cashing in on its real estate portfolio, netting $30 million on a Baltimore property where it has a printing plant.
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Baltimore Sun, Tribune Media Investor … and bizjournals


Ex-NYT editor Jill Abramson on defying the White House, from the Pentagon Papers to Snowden — Jill Abramson on putting the public interest first — Defying the White House, from the Pentagon Papers to Snowden — Disc error The remnants of The Guardian computers used to store leaked Snowden documents.
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Politico's Laura McGann Joins Vox To Lead Political Coverage — NEW YORK — Politico deputy managing editor Laura McGann is joining Vox as the site's first political editor. — In an interview with The Huffington Post, McGann suggested that Vox, the general-interest site founded earlier …
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FishbowlDC, @mattmansfield, @mattdelong, @kenvogel, @mattyglesias, @lkmcgann, @bankoff and @daveweigel


Al-Jazeera shuts down its Egypt channel — CAIRO (AP) — The Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera news network on Monday shut down its Egypt channel, quieting a major source of tension between the two countries at a time when regional efforts are underway to reconcile between the two countries over the Gulf nation's support for Islamists.
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Al Bawaba and Daily News Egypt

Making ethical choices about Sony emails requires news judgment; legal analysis is murky and complicated — Sony Emails, Free Speech — and Trying a Little ‘F2F’ — Somewhere in academia, an enterprising law professor is putting together a lecture on the hacked Sony emails, considering the legal and free-speech issues they raise.


U.K. Media Giant ITV Invests in Ousted Maker Studios Co-founder Danny Zappin's Media Startup — Internet entrepreneur Danny Zappin, who co-founded Maker Studios only to be ousted prior to the company's acquisition by Walt Disney Co., has spent much of the last year trying to build out a new digital media empire.
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Variety, The Wrap, @digitalshields, broadcastnow.co.uk and Televisual