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3:55 AM ET, January 17, 2015

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Twitter fights Turkish order to block newspaper's Twitter account  —  Twitter has received a court order from the Turkish government asking the service to block or remove the account belonging to one of the country's newspapers, known as Halkin Gazetesi — which means The People's Newspaper …
Discussion: Techdirt, @mathewi and @chillingeffects
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Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:
Turkey Threatens to Block Social Media Over Released Documents  —  ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish officials threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless the social-media company blocked the account of a left-wing newspaper that had circulated documents about a military police raid …
Associated Press:   Turkish Journalist Could Go To Prison For Up To Five Years Over Tweet
Kelsey McKinney / Vox:
US House Speaker John Boehner's office uses Taylor Swift gifs to attack Obama's community college proposal  —  Taylor Swift continues world domination, takes over Speaker John Boehner's website  —  House Speaker John Boehner posted a listicle on his website this morning full of Taylor Swift gifs.
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
F.B.I. Chief Criticizes Times on Qaeda Source
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
34-Year Veteran Jim Clancy Leaves CNN After Controversial Charlie Hebdo Tweets  —  Just one week after he engaged in a heated Twitter debate over the terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo, CNN international correspondent Jim Clancy announced he is leaving the network after more than 30 years at the network.
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Editors urge David Cameron to tighten police snooping rules  —  Prime minister asked to intervene to help protect journalists' phones and communications records  —  More than 100 senior editors representing every UK national newspaper, the regional press and broadcasters have signed …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Sirius XM is dealt new setback in Turtles copyright lawsuit  —  (Reuters) - A New York federal judge on Thursday largely rejected Sirius XM Holdings Inc's request to reconsider her Nov. 14 decision in favor of members of the 1960s band The Turtles over the payment of royalties for songs made before 1972.
Sam Thielman / Adweek:
NBCUniversal Is Using Big Data to Launch Its Audience Targeting Platform  —  Will supplement, not replace, Nielsen metric  —  That was, in corporate terms, fast.  —  NBCUniversal is leveraging massive amounts of set-top box data collected by its parent company, Comcast …
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Disney's Iger Gets 35% Pay Raise to $46.5 Million  —  Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s board handed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger a 35 percent pay increase for delivering a record profit and stock price last year.  —  Iger, who runs the world's largest entertainment company, was already one of America's highest-paid executives.
The Hill:
The Hill names Neetzan Zimmerman senior director, audience and strategy  —  The Hill, the publication of record for policy influencers inside and outside Washington, has named Neetzan Zimmerman as senior director, audience and strategy.  —  Zimmerman, who will expand the publication's reach …
Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:
Chinese Directors' Guild Urges Reforms, Launch of Film Ratings System  —  China's Film Directors' Guild has issued a strident online manifesto urging widescale industry reforms, including a call for the establishment of a ratings system.  This would make clearing censorship easier …
The Independent:
Raif Badawi: Saudi King ‘refers case to Supreme Court’, says blogger's wife  —  The King of Saudi Arabia is to refer the case of blogger and activist Raif Badawi's to the Supreme Court, his wife has told BBC News.  —  His wife Ensaf Haidar - who is living in Canada with their three children …
Discussion: BBC and @dreades
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JC Finley / UPI:
Saudi Arabia postpones flogging of blogger Raif Badawi
Agence France-Presse:
AFP photographer shot at Pakistan anti-Charlie Hebdo protest  —  AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot and seriously injured Friday while covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest by religious party activists outside the French consulate in Karachi, but was out of immediate danger following surgery.
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