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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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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.
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TVNewser, GalleyCat, FishbowlNY and The Twitter Blog
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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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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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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Search Engine Land, Techdirt, Plagiarism Today, @mathewi, @fredbenenson and @dangillmor
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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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 …
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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 …
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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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