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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 …
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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.
PEN American Center:
Survey: concern about surveillance is nearly as high among writers in democracies as among those in non-democracies — Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers — Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers is a new report demonstrating …
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@joelcpj, The Paris Review, PEN American Center, New York Times, The Intercept and The Hill
Mohamed Fadel Fahmy / New York Times:
In op-ed for the New York Times, arrested Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy says he and his colleagues are “pawns in a geopolitical game” — Al Jazeera Journalists Are Not Egypt's Enemies — TORA, Egypt — Together with two colleagues from the cable news channel Al Jazeera English …
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.
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@ron_fournier, @majorcbs and @johnmcglasson1
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 …
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Wall Street Journal and Inside Cable News
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 …
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@robertblevine_, @saxonius, Business Insider and UPROXX
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 …
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@matwilcox
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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@williams_paige, @adamnagourney, @peterbakernyt, @thegarance, @carolleonnig, @michaelkruse, @mattdelong and @joepompeo
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico's deputy managing editor Dianna Heitz leaves for editor role at CNN Politics Digital
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Politico, FishbowlDC, The Daily Caller and @erikwemple
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.
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Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap and Wall Street Journal
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.
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@chafkin, @neilperkin, @arctictony, @nixxin, @nxthompson, @fmanjoo, @betashop, @werner, @nilofer, @mattcutts, @erickschonfeld, @startupljackson, @mikeisaac, @sippey, @alex, @peteshelly, @jakeludington, @margarita, @pkafka, @om, @ptraughber and @jukayhsu
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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@petersterne and @mlcalderone
Reuters:
Sony CEO praises employees, partners for standing up to hackers — (Reuters) - Sony Corp Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai on Monday praised employees and partners of the company's Hollywood movie studio for standing up to “extortionist efforts” of hackers who attacked Sony Pictures Entertainment in November.
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