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8:20 PM ET, January 6, 2015

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT's executive editor Dean Baquet writes memo to staff, outlines goals for 2015, announces creation of audience development department  —  Dean Baquet's ‘Charting the Future’ Note to Times Staff  —  A turbulent year at The Times is over, and with that, the executive editor, Dean Baquet …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Melissa Segura named BuzzFeed's first investigative fellow  —  BuzzFeed News announced Tuesday that Melissa Segura will be its first investigative fellow.  Segura has reported at Sports Illustrated and SI.com since 2001, when she was a college intern.  —  “Melissa reports deeply and writes beautifully …
Discussion: BuzzFeed
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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, @lavrusik and @matwilcox
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Kindle Unlimited program has let one author increase annualized revenue about 50 percent  —  For the Indie Writers of Amazon, It's Publish or Perish  —  One big argument for “all you can eat” music, video and book services is that they encourage people to sample new artists and ultimately develop …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Meet Nate Cohn, New York Times' new young gun on data  —  When The New York Times lost statistics star Nate Silver and his high-traffic 538 franchise to ESPN in July 2013, it found a way to fill the void by assembling a data-driven politics and policy brand called The Upshot …
Capital New York:
NYT's Amy O'Leary, Innovation Report co-author, joining Upworthy as editorial director  —  New York Times' Amy O'Leary to join Upworthy as editorial director  —  New York Times deputy international editor Amy O'Leary is leaving for a new job as editorial director of the viral content site Upworthy.
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech  —  On March 6, 2012, six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside explosive device, and a national ritual of mourning and rage ensued.  Prime Minister David Cameron called it a “desperately sad day for our country.”
Discussion: broadstuff and @raycorrigan
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Gawker Media's independent Kinja posts apparently aren't generating a ton of traffic  —  Platisher — the ugliest journalism word of 2014 — lives on in 2015.  (Despite the fact that I can't hear it without thinking: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.")
Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Detained For Reporting On Possible Ebola Case In Somalia  —  Three journalists were detained by Somali police on Saturday for reporting on a potential case of Ebola within Somalia.  —  The journalists all worked for the private radio station Radio Risaala, which has reportedly since been shut down.
CBS News:
Twitter accounts for one newspaper and one TV station get hacked with pro-ISIS messages; station's website also defaced  —  News websites, Twitter feeds hacked with pro-ISIS message  —  A screenshot of the Albuquerque Journal's Twitter feed in the early afternoon on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2014.
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 …
Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Public official Kirby Delauter threatens newspaper with lawsuit for publishing his name; it then publishes his name, lots  —  Maryland Lawmaker Thinks Press Needs His OK To Use His Name, Which Is ‘Kirby Delauter’  —  Got a little story this morning about the Streisand Effect — which …
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 …
 
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Caysey Welton / MinOnline:
Meredith buys ad tech firm Selectable Media; CEO says it continues to look for partners or acquisitions
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico's events editor Lois Romano becomes editor of Washington Post Live
Discussion: Washington Post and FishbowlDC
Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Fusion, Vox, Al Jazeera and The Verge Partner With Newscast App ‘Watchup’ (Exclusive)
Discussion: TVNewser
Charlotte Eyre / The Bookseller:
Kickstarter publishing projects raised $22m in 2014
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Dave McNary / Variety:
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Metrics based on a single number, like MAU, are a poor proxy for value for Internet companies
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom Settles Intern Class Action Lawsuit (Exclusive)
Discussion: The Wrap and @amandapendo