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James Ball / Guardian:
British spy agency GCHQ intercepted emails from NYT, Washington Post, NBC journalists, among other international media — GCHQ intercepted emails of journalists from top international media — • Snowden files reveal emails of BBC, NY Times and more — • Agency includes investigative journalists on ‘threat’ list
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Press Gazette:
Every UK national newspaper editor urges Prime Minister to stop RIPA spying on journalists — Every national newspaper editor has backed the Press Gazette Save Our Sources campaign and signed a joint letter of protest to Prime Minister David Cameron over police spying on journalists' phone records.
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@anthonylongden1, @arusbridger, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, @raju, @indexcensorship and @spencetimes
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Editors urge David Cameron to tighten police snooping rules
Editors urge David Cameron to tighten police snooping rules
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@mslods, @farrellpf and @arusbridger
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon Studios to Produce Movies for Theatrical, Digital Release in 2015 — Amazon Studios said it will begin to produce and acquire original movies for theatrical release and early-window distribution on Amazon Prime Instant Video starting in 2015. — According to Amazon …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
Fox News apologizes 4 times for inaccurate comments about Muslims in Europe — Fox News took time out of four broadcasts on Saturday to apologize for four separate instances of incorrect information that portrayed Muslims in a negative light. — Several of the cases involved incendiary comments about …
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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Gawker, Mediaite, Fox News, Washington Post, Vox and Medium
Emily Steel / New York Times:
ComScore starts tracking video audiences across computers, mobile, tablets and streaming devices — ComScore to Tally Viewers Across Their Many Devices — People are spending an exploding amount of time watching video on their mobile phones or streaming programs to their television sets …
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@vivian
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Magzter Launches Magzter Gold, Offering Unlimited Access To 2,000+ Magazines For $9.99 A Month — Startup Magzter is already selling many magazines on the web and mobile devices, but it's been focused on traditional purchase models — buying single issues, or annual subscriptions to individual titles.
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Businessweek.com, Wall Street Journal and The Next Web
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
YouTube Will Produce Its Own Super Bowl Halftime Show — YouTube will offer a halftime show during the Super Bowl featuring some of its biggest online stars, part of a broader initiative to promote advertisements on the Google Inc (GOOG).-owned video site. — Harley Morenstein …
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@lucas_shaw, @dweinstein21, @elyssagoldberg, @sarahfrier, Forbes, Gigaom and AdAge, Thanks:@lucas_shaw
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Telegraph Media Group made £55m operating profit in 2014 — Newspaper group ‘quietly pleased’ despite £6m fall on previous year's performance — The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) made an operating profit of £55m last year, according to unaudited figures leaked to the Guardian.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
State of the Union becomes multiplatform, multimedia effort on YouTube, Facebook, Medium, more — How ‘State of the Union Night’ became ‘State of the Union Month’ — The State of the Union used to be a one-night event, where Americans gathered around their TV sets at home and watched …
Discussion:
White House.gov Blog, @katiezez, PBS NewsHour, Mediaite, The Awl and Polygon
Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:
Turkey threatens to block Twitter unless Twitter blocks the account of a newspaper that circulated leaked documents — Turkey Threatens to Block Social Media Over Released Documents — ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish officials threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless …
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Twitter fights Turkish order to block newspaper's Twitter account
Twitter fights Turkish order to block newspaper's Twitter account
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@mathewi, @chillingeffects and Techdirt
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
Fox News to earn $1.50 per subscriber per month, more than most channels besides ESPN and TNT — Fox News to earn $1.50 per subscriber — Fox News Channel is on track to earn $1.50 per cable subscriber per month in the not-too-distant future. — That dollar figure …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Times to hire seven for native advertising content studio — Times to staff up content studio — The New York Times is staffing up a department that makes in-house branded content for marketers as part of its push to grow digital advertising revenues.