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10:10 AM ET, January 6, 2015

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Verizon approached AOL about possible acquisition or joint venture to strengthen mobile-video offerings  —  Verizon Said to Approach AOL About Possible Takeover or Venture  —  Verizon Communications Inc. has approached AOL Inc. (AOL) about a potential acquisition or joint venture …
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
James Risen, in Tense Testimony, Refuses to Offer Clues on Sources  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — James Risen, a reporter for The New York Times, took the witness stand in federal court on Monday and refused to answer any questions that could help the Justice Department home in on his confidential sources.
Tom Watson / Forbes:
Instead of building a platform, First Look's Reported.ly launches a decentralized approach to breaking news, using Twitter, Facebook, others  —  Inside The Decentralized News Network: Reported.ly's New Model For Journalism  —  Anyone who followed the Arab Spring on Twitter …
Discussion: Medium and @matwilcox
Charlotte Eyre / The Bookseller:
Kickstarter publishing projects raised $22m in 2014  —  Publishing projects launched on crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter raised $21.8m (£15m) internationally in 2014, according to the company's end-of-year round-up.  —  Last year, 22,252 Kickstarter projects reached their funding goals thanks …
Discussion: VG247, GalleyCat and The Next Web
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Former Drudge Report Editor Launches Politics-Focused Site ‘Right Read’  —  NEW YORK — Joseph Curl, a veteran political writer and most recently an editor for The Drudge Report, unveiled a new politics-focused, aggregation-heavy site on Monday called Right Read.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNBC To Opt Out of Nielsen Ratings for Daytime Programming - Report  —  Business-news network CNBC is planning to stop using Nielsen ratings as the basis for the sale of advertising on its daytime schedule to advertisers, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, most legally-downloaded BitTorrent artist in 2014, may have made up to $20M with BitTorrent Bundles  —  Thom Yorke made as much as $20M from his BitTorrent experiment  —  As part of its mission to convince the music industry that it isn't just for copyright infringers …
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Fallout at Boston.com over retracted story leads to two staffers being escorted from newsroom  —  More fallout at Boston.com after retraction  —  Boston.com found gold one day in mid-December, but it's been burning a hole in their pocket ever since.  —  Capital has learned …
Discussion: Poynter, @petersterne and @mlcalderone
Dave McNary / Variety:
Harry Sloan, Jeff Sagansky Make $303 Million Investment in Indian Pay-TV Service  —  Veteran Hollywood executives Harry Sloan and Jeff Sagansky are investing at least $303.7 million to acquire 33.5% of Videocon d2h, a pay-TV service in India that provides direct-to-home broadcasts.
Ev Williams / Medium:
Metric measurement is imperfect, so don't get too caught up in the numbers  —  A mile wide, an inch deep  —  I was recently quoted as saying, “I don't give a s**t” if Instagram has more users than Twitter.  If you read the article you'll note there's a big “if” before my not giving of said s**t.
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
POLITICO hires Marilyn Thompson as deputy editor  —  POLITICO has hired Marilyn Thompson as a deputy editor, POLITICO editor Susan Glasser and executive editor Peter Canellos announced in a staff memo Monday titled “The Politico Class of 2015.”  —  Thompson currently serves as Washington bureau chief for Reuters.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom Settles Intern Class Action Lawsuit (Exclusive)
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Bono praises Apple and Spotify over digital music payments
Discussion: New York Times, U2 > Home and The Drum
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Top 10 Pirated TV Shows of 2014: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Walking Dead’ Lead List
Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson sues Justice Department over alleged computer hacking, seeks $35M in damages
Jeff Baumgartner / Broadcasting & Cable:
ESPN's Aaron LaBerge succeeds Chuck Pagano as CTO
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Dish announces Sling TV: stream channels like ESPN, CNN, and TNT over the internet for $20 per month without a cable subscription
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Skeptical About North Korea's Role in Sony Hack? Don't Be
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and @devincf