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11:40 AM ET, January 19, 2015

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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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @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.
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 …
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 …
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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.
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Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
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