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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN's Christiane Amanpour questions Zucker over Charlie Hebdo decision — CNN's Christiane Amanpour questioned network president Jeff Zucker in front of CNN's global staff on Wednesday over his decision not to air images of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, sources at the network told POLITICO.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Why grant anonymity to a terrorist? Jeremy Scahill explains.
Why grant anonymity to a terrorist? Jeremy Scahill explains.
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David Carr / New York Times:
Flocking to Buy Charlie Hebdo, Citizens Signal Their Support of Free Speech
Flocking to Buy Charlie Hebdo, Citizens Signal Their Support of Free Speech
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Capital New York:
Natasha Vargas-Cooper leaves The Intercept for Jezebel — Natasha Vargas-Cooper has resigned from The Intercept, Capital has learned. — Vargas-Cooper, a staff writer, clashed with the site's new editor in chief, Betsy Reed, especially over her interview with the lead prosecutor …
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Gawker Media merging Gizmodo and io9 teams into a tech super-hub — Credit: Annalee Newitz by Victor Jeffreys for Gawker — Credit: Annalee Newitz by Victor Jeffreys for Gawker — Gawker Media said Thursday it is combining its tech-focused blogs — Gizmodo, which tends to focus on hardware …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Source: FCC to vote Feb. 26 on petitions from two cities asking to preempt state laws that limit municipal Internet service — The FCC will vote next month on whether to help cities build their own Internet — Telecom regulators will vote on petitions in February from two cities …
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Obama criticizes state laws that limit broadband competition, putting him at odds with major cable companies; industry group pushes back
Obama criticizes state laws that limit broadband competition, putting him at odds with major cable companies; industry group pushes back
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hklaw.com:
News Media Coalition Announces Partnership to Test Small News Drones at FAA Test Site — A coalition of 10 news media companies is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) for the testing of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to gather news.
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Time Inc.'s Video Portal Daily Cut Finally Goes Live — Last May, Time Inc. executives told potential online advertisers about plans to roll out Daily Cut, a centralized Web video destination for all of the company's brands. — Little did attendees at that presentation- made during the …
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Q&A: Amy O'Leary on eight years of navigating digital culture change at The New York Times — When Amy O'Leary announced in early January that she was leaving The New York Times to become editorial director at Upworthy, there was a collective jaw-drop in the digital journalism community.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times is using its reader survey panel for journalism — For two decades, The New York Times has had a reader insight panel — a subset of its audience that it occasionally surveys to “better understand the reading habits, lifestyles and interests of Times readers.
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
NBC's Breaking News iOS app adds video from NBC and its citizen journalism app Stringwire — NBC's Breaking News app hopes to hook you with live video — From Flipboard to Circa, there's no shortage of news aggregation apps out there, designed to deliver alerts to your phone the second news breaks.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News organizations ‘pleased’ with updated D.O.J. media guidelines — News organizations welcomed the U.S. Department of Justice's updated guidelines, released Wednesday, on how the government can obtain records and other information from media outlets during leak investigations.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Chris Blackhurst leaves Independent and Standard multimedia job to take writing role — Former Independent editor is the highest profile casualty of a cost-cutting drive across all Lebedev titles — Chris Blackhurst, the former Independent editor, is leaving his senior editorial job …
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Rdio Becomes The First Global Music Streaming Service To Launch In India — India has welcomed the first international music streaming service to its shores after Rdio, the San Francisco based company, launched in the country. — Rdio's arrival in India has been expected for some time since …
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Josh Dickey / Mashable:
Vimeo to fund Maker Studios creators in exchange for exclusive windows — LOS ANGELES — Vimeo has agreed to fund and distribute content in exclusive windows from creators at Disney-owned Maker Studios, yet another challenge to YouTube's position as the go-to platform for first-run online video, Mashable has learned.
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Timeline Launches News App To Give You The Context Behind The Day's Headlines — One big complaint about current news coverage is that there's not enough context — an article or TV report might tell you what happened today, but it gives you no understanding about the history that led up to today's news.
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Shutterstock takes aim at Getty as it snaps up U.K. press photo agency Rex Features for $33M — Stock photo behemoth Shutterstock has acquired Rex Features, a photographic press agency based out of the U.K, for $33 million. Most of the transaction will be made in cash.
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