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8:05 PM ET, January 15, 2015

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Inside the NY Times' audience development strategy  —  It was the fall of 2014, and Alexandra MacCallum was filling out her new audience development staff as The New York Times' newly appointed assistant managing editor for outreach.  The timing couldn't have been more awkward …
Discussion: Gigaom, @mathewi, @niemanlab and Poynter
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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.
Discussion: @sarahletrent, Adweek and @amontalenti
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.
Discussion: Washington Post and @ylichterman
Associated Press:
19K French websites targeted with minor denial-of-service attacks since Charlie Hebdo murders  —  France faces 19,000 cyberattacks since terror rampage  —  PARIS (AP) — Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:   News Corp. steps up security in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Amazon executive hopes for era of peace with publishers  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The overseer of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book and publishing divisions is preaching peace.  —  With a monthslong standoff between Amazon and Hachette Book Group over e-book revenues settled and a multiyear agreement in place …
Discussion: Digital Book World and Gigaom
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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Apple: 1 million new iBooks customers each week since iOS 8 launch  —  Apple's iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, which launched to the public this fall, come with iBooks pre-installed.  That decision has paid off: iBooks has averaged one million new customers every week since mid-September.
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.
Discussion: Washington Post and @dylanbyers
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David Carr / New York Times:
Flocking to Buy Charlie Hebdo, Citizens Signal Their Support of Free Speech
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Dish agrees on terms to bring back Fox news, business channels  —  Dish Network Corp said the Fox News and Fox Business channels will return soon to the satellite TV provider's lineup after both sides agreed on Thursday to the major terms of a multi-year deal.
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 …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Gawker Media merging Gizmodo and io9 teams into a tech super-hub  —  Gawker Media said Thursday it is combining its tech-focused blogs — Gizmodo, which tends to focus on hardware, and the more entertainment-oriented io9, as well as several smaller blogs like Paleofuture — into a single unit run by current io9 editor Annalee Newitz.
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 …
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.
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.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Sorry, journos: Heavy use of social media is not stressful, study says  —  The Pew Research Center's latest internet study, out this morning, uses some intricate survey methodology to come to a straightforward finding: heavy users of social media, Facebook particularly, are not stressed by the experience.
David S. Bernstein / Boston Magazine:
In latest staff upheaval, Boston.com fires associate editor after satirical post about Boehner death threat  —  Boston.com Is Still a Mess  —  The dust has barely settled on the Sichuan Garden fiasco as the site finds itself apologizing to the Speaker of the House.
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 …
Discussion: @timeinc, VideoInk and PopWatch
 
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Chris Blackhurst leaves Independent and Standard multimedia job to take writing role
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Tow Center receives new $3m funding for newsroom research
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
NBC's Breaking News iOS app adds video from NBC and its citizen journalism app Stringwire
Discussion: @jcstearns and Digiday
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