Top News:
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
RELATED:
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Journalist Joshua Hersh Named BuzzFeed's Michael Hastings Reporting Fellow
Discussion:
@williamsjon, @jonleeanderson, @joshuahersh, @joshuahersh and @buzzfeedben
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 …
Discussion:
Kathryn Le Veque Novels
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.
Discussion:
Columbia Journalism Review, Upworthy Insider, @mlcalderone, @amy_harmon, @heyfeifer, @agolis, @jeremymbarr, @daveweigel, Politico, @emilybell, @jamesrbuk and Poynter
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
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 …
Discussion:
@derekwillis, @albertocairo, @jayrosen_nyu and @chaykak
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.
Discussion:
Albuquerque Journal News, JIMROMENESKO.COM, WBOC-TV, bizjournals, MySanAntonio.com, New York Magazine and Business Insider
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 …
Ina Fried / Re/code:
Verizon CEO Says Video Effort to Debut in Second Half, AOL Acquisition Report Inaccurate — Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam threw cold water on the idea his company was in talks to acquire AOL, but reiterated the company's interest in offering a video service, saying it could debut in the second half of this year.
Discussion:
Reuters, Business Insider and Consumerist
RELATED:
Bloomberg:
Sources: Verizon approached AOL about possible acquisition or joint venture to strengthen mobile-video offerings
Discussion:
Multichannel News, Guardian, Variety, CNBC, Consumerist, AdAge, ThinkProgress, Wall Street Journal, FishbowlNY, @jledbetter, @ggreeneva, @benmuessig, @sherman4949, @tactical_intel, @pkafka, @howardlindzon, @jyarow, @rakeshlobster, The Hill, Quartz, Light Reading, @timkarr, VatorNews, ReadWrite, The Week, Business Insider, @om, The Verge, The Wrap, Telegraph, @peter_tl, @pkafka, @mattzeitlin, @caseynewton, @rafat and USA Today
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.
Discussion:
Committee to Protect … and Hiiraan Online
Caysey Welton / MinOnline:
Meredith buys ad tech firm Selectable Media; CEO says it continues to look for partners or acquisitions — Meredith Charges on With Another Acquisition — The Meredith Corporation began 2015 much like it ended 2014-with another acquisition. Tuesday, it announced the purchase of Selectable Media …
Discussion:
NetNewsCheck Latest, Des Moines Register and PR Newswire
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 …
Accounting Specialist Editor, Remote US — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Asia Credit Reporter, Seoul — 
Senior Social Media Specialist, NC — 
Associate Editor - Aviation, TN — 
Assistant Editor - Digital, NC — 
Video Producer - YouTube, NY — 
Senior Managing Ed. - Daily Desk — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Content Managing Editor — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Associate Editor, Remote — 
Retail Reporter, MN — 
Managing Ed. - Berks County, PA — 
News Editor - UK, Remote — 
News Reporter, MA — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Service Journalism Editor, CA — 
Content Director, Remote — 
Los Angeles Issues Reporter, CA — 
Reporter - Middle East — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Lexington County Reporter, SC — 
Reporter - Offshore Wind — 
General Assignment Reporter, FL — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
