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4:10 PM ET, January 12, 2015

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Amazon, Netflix Win Big At The Golden Globes — Last year, Amazon wasn't even included in the Golden Globes. Netflix took home one of five nominations with the help of Robin Wright from House Of Cards. — This year, both companies are walking away winners.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, VatorNews, The New York Observer and The Wrap

Adam Flomenbaum / Lost Remote:

The Golden Globes on Twitter: 2.6 Million Tweets is 24% Increase Year Over Year — Last night's Golden Globes drove 2.6 million tweets between 8pm EST and 11pm EST - a 24% increase compared to last year. — Twitter's Head of TV, Andrew Adashek, detailed the highlights in a blog post after the event.

Discussion: GalleyCat, SocialTimes, FishbowlNY and The Twitter Blog

Colin Lecher / The Verge:
“Transparent” wins Golden Globe for best TV comedy, the first major award for an Amazon show

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, CNET, @janewells, @joshsternberg, @carr2n, @delrey, @jonerlichman, Business Insider and GeekWire

Max Read / Gawker:

Gawker splits site into verticals, adds sections for politics, media, news and more — How to Read Gawker in 2015 — Hi there. We're trying something new out for the new year, which means Gawker's going to be publishing things a little differently. Let me explain.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @brizzyc, @jayrosen_nyu, @tcarmody, @msebastian, @max_read, @laceydonohue, @barryap1, @jeremymbarr and @chrismegerian

Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

Stephen Colbert's ‘Late Show’ will debut Sept. 8 — “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will debut Tuesday, Sept. 8, CBS said in an announcement Monday morning at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. — Colbert will replace David Letterman, who will host his last “Late Show” on May 20, 2015.

Discussion: Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline, Reuters, NY Daily News, Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, Salon, Inside TV, Washington Post, Mashable and Rolling Stone

New York Times:

Pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones leaves The New Yorker to join Genius as an executive editor focusing on annotation of lyrics — Pop Music Critic Leaves The New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics for a Start-Up — Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime pop music critic for The New Yorker …

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Chilling Effects, a site tracking DMCA removal requests, pulls its copyright removal notice pages from search engines — Chilling Effects DMCA Archive Censors Itself — On an average day Google now processes more than a million takedown requests from copyright holders, and that's for its search engine alone.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Techdirt, Plagiarism Today, @mathewi, @fredbenenson and @dangillmor

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Prosecutors now want to exclude NYT reporter James Risen from any appearance at CIA leak trial — Feds want Risen out of leak trial — Federal prosecutors who have decided after a seven-year legal battle not to call New York Times reporter James Risen in the leak trial of one of his alleged sources …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Associated Press, @mattzap and Boing Boing

Michael Kupperman / The Hooded Utilitarian:

How meddling editors and fear of offense forced a comic book artist to stop working with the NYT — My NYT Nightmare — Just under a year ago, I started a new gig that I was cautiously excited about: creating editorial comics for the Week in Review section of The New York Times.

Discussion: The Wrap, @karenmcgrane, @splinister, @lehmannchris, @losowsky and @hoodedu

Daniel Menaker / Slate:

Longtime book editor Daniel Menaker on Amazon, Authors United, and the future of publishing — One day about three years after I'd left the New Yorker to become a book editor, Alberto Vitale—former CEO of Random House, Inc., a genial, intelligent, and remarkably tan businessman …

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Daily Mail Buys Full-Page Times Ad to Promote Automated Ad Sales — Offers Free Dollar in Programmatic Ads for Each Dollar Spent Directly — TV and Technology — The DailyMail.com ran a full-page ad in The New York Times on Monday to promote its automated ad sales in the U.S. …

Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:

CNN Strikes Deal With FAA to Integrate Drones Into Aviation Reporting — CNN and the Federal Aviation Administration have signed an agreement to integrate drones into news gathering and reporting, the two organizations announced Monday. — The agreement will provide the FAA …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline, Politico, Associated Press and CNNMoney.com

Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

Amid tensions with Omidyar, The Intercept wants to ditch its non-profit status — The Intercept Found Serial's Elusive Jay, but Can It Find a Profitable Future? — Investigative site could drop its nonprofit status by year's end — Last month, The Intercept scored an exclusive interview with Jay …

Discussion: @ggreenwald, @ggreenwald, @nbj914 and @mathewi

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Al Jazeera America Schedule In Flux After Network Cancels Programs — Al Jazeera America launched with the noble mission of providing in-depth news to a cable populace inundated with fast bits of information and a surfeit of talking heads, but putting transforming its goals into practice is proving more difficult.

Discussion: TVNewser and New York Post