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Jana Winter / The Intercept:
Sony Hackers Threaten U.S. News Media Organization — The cyberterrorists who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer servers have threatened to attack an American news media organization, according to an FBI bulletin obtained by The Intercept. — The threat against the unnamed news organization …
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Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo:
FBI: The Sony Hackers Also Targeted CNN (Probably) — According to an official FBI bulletin obtained by The Intercept, the same hackers who broke into Sony Pictures and stole a devastating amount of data made threats against an American “news media organization” as well. (It's probably CNN.)
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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Skift travel site to launch print magazine Jan 13 that focuses on annual travel trend forecast — Travel industry site Skift tries print — Skift, the travel-industry site, is the latest digital media operation to launch a print magazine, which comes out Jan. 13.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
After two months in Kindle Unlimited program, profits for one Amazon author dropped 75% — Amazon Offers All-You-Can-Eat Books. Authors Turn Up Noses. — Authors are upset with Amazon. Again. — For much of the last year, mainstream novelists were furious that Amazon was discouraging …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The EU Is Plotting A New TV Channel To Counter Russian Propaganda In Europe — “Russian TV, particularly for the last couple of years, has been very aggressive,” the foreign minister of Latvia tells BuzzFeed News. — Kommersant Photo/Kommersant via Getty Images
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New York Times:
Sony Cyberattack, First a Nuisance, Swiftly Grew Into a Firestorm — LOS ANGELES — It was three days before Thanksgiving, the beginning of a quiet week for Sony Pictures. But Michael Lynton, the studio's chief executive, was nonetheless driving his Volkswagen GTI toward Sony's lot at 6 …
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Ben Quinn / Guardian:
Photojournalist arrested after filming with drone near Gatwick airport — Eddie Mitchell, with approval from the CAA to commercially operate small unmanned aircraft, held for hours by police — A freelance photojournalist who carries out aerial photography work using a flying drone …
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Kevin Draper / The Concourse:
46 Vox posts that misinformed readers, and the corrections that show magnitude of the mistakes — 46 Times Vox Totally F**ked Up A Story — If you work in the media, you're going to get things wrong. Accuracy and timeliness are in conflict, and when you're dealing with vast amounts of information, accuracy will sometimes suffer.
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Anupam Saxena / Times of India:
India orders ISPs to block Dailymotion, Vimeo, Internet Archive, and 30 other websites — Pastebin, Dailymotion, Github blocked after DoT order: Report — NEW DELHI: A number of Indian users are reporting they're not able to access websites such as Pastebin, DailyMotion and Github …
Reporters Without Borders:
Independent Siberian news channel TV-2 ceased over-the-air broadcast at midnight local time, limited to cable transmission until early February — Russia - Independent Siberian TV station's forced closure imminent — One of western Siberia's few independent TV stations, Tomsk-based TV-2 …
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MENAFN:
Egypt- Al Jazeera journalists await Thursday appeal session, hopes are on ‘intervention’ — (MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) The three Al Jazeera English journalists imprisoned in Egypt await an appeal on Thursday, while their hopes largely rely on foreign pressure on the Egyptian authorities.
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Guardian:
Newly released government files show British PM Thatcher considered forcing BBC to run ads — Margaret Thatcher considered forcing BBC to run advertising — Newly released government documents reveal Tory prime minister's concerns over the 'extravagance of some of the BBC's spending'
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Disney enlists Maker Studios to create “Star Wars” short-form sponsored videos online ahead of next film release in December 2015 — Disney Enlists Maker to Create ‘Star Wars’ Series Online — Maker Studios, the Web video network owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS) …
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Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant
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