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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 …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Journalist Joshua Hersh Named BuzzFeed's Michael Hastings Reporting Fellow
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@joshuahersh, @joshuahersh, @jonleeanderson, @buzzfeedben and @williamsjon
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 …
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Monster sues Beats; CEO Noel Lee claims he and Monster invented the technology behind Beats By Dr. Dre headphones — Tech firm Monster sues Beats and founders Dre and Iovine — Monster, which co-designed the original Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, is filing suit against Beats Electronics …
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CNET, @andrewcouts, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, The Verge, Forbes, The Next Web and App Advice
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 …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Neil Young's high-quality Pono music player goes on sale Monday for $399 — Neil Young's high-quality music player, the Pono, is finally going on sale. After completing a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, the Pono is heading into retail stores on Monday.
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Fusion, Pitchfork, Engadget and Tech Times
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.
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Hiiraan Online, Reporters Without Borders and Committee to Protect …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Yelp Says FTC Won't Act on Complaints About Its Reviews — Local-reviews site Yelp said the Federal Trade Commission had ended an inquiry of the company without taking action. — In a blog post Tuesday, Yelp said the FTC had examined the software it uses to manage consumer reviews on its site …
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Yelp Official Blog, TechCrunch, Consumerist and Gigaom
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.
Emily Steel / New York Times:
HBO's “Game of Thrones” will air trailer and two episodes on Imax screens later this month, blurring lines between video platforms — ‘Game of Thrones’ Takes a Trailer of Its New Season to Imax — The dragons, dire wolves, White Walkers and power-hungry political factions …
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/Film, Inside TV, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, ANIMAL, GalleyCat, Home Media Magazine, mUmBRELLA, IMAX and Badass Digest
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Millennial-focused news site Mic releases first mobile app MicCheck, shows single stream of stories from both Mic and other sites — Mic releases ‘MicCheck’ mobile app — This morning, Millennial-focused news organization Mic released its first mobile app.
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@jbenton and @joelcifer
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 …
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@chaykak, @derekwillis, @albertocairo and @jayrosen_nyu
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.")
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