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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.
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VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, The New York Observer, VatorNews and The Wrap
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Adam Flomenbaum / Lost Remote:
The Golden Globes on Twitter: 2.6 Million Tweets is 24% Increase Year Over Year
The Golden Globes on Twitter: 2.6 Million Tweets is 24% Increase Year Over Year
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GalleyCat, FishbowlNY, SocialTimes and The Twitter Blog
Deborah Cole / Agence France-Presse:
Firebombing at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons — Berlin (AFP) - A German tabloid that reprinted cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo lampooning the Prophet Mohammed was targeted in firebombing Sunday, police said. — With security services on high alert …
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Editors must not let Charlie Hebdo's fate influence their editorial stance — Fear is not an editorial option — Anglo-saxon media that refused to publish religious caricatures should revise their position. This is the worst time to surrender to self-censorship and politically correctness.
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The Week, Mashable and The Huffington Post
Tom Kent / The Definitive Source:
Why AP didn't run the Charlie Hebdo cartoons
Why AP didn't run the Charlie Hebdo cartoons
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Poynter, @sulliview and @ron_fournier
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 …
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.
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Broadcasting & Cable and Rolling Stone
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.
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@tcarmody, @msebastian, @chrismegerian, @max_read, @laceydonohue, @barryap1 and @jeremymbarr
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 …
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.
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@fredbenenson, @mathewi, Search Engine Land and @dangillmor
George Sandeman / Guardian:
Oxford Mail's WhatsApp news service tops 1,200 subscribers after six months — Chat app gets more click on story links than email or Twitter services, according to paper's head of content — The Oxford Mail claims its experiment with mobile messaging service WhatsApp has shown …
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.
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TVNewser and New York Post
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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.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Three From The New Republic Join The Huffington Post — Three former senior staff members at The New Republic, who were part of a mass exodus at the magazine late last year, have joined The Huffington Post. — The editors Greg Veis and Rachel Morris, and a writer, Jonathan Cohn …
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
The looming threat of newsroom cyber attacks — Recent attacks on the Albuquerque Journal and WBOC reveal the importance of digital security — Around 11am on Tuesday, journalists at the Maryland CBS affiliate WBOC noticed that their Twitter password had been changed.
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