Mediagazer: Deloitte Says Millennials Will Spend $62 Billion on Media in 2015 (Dawn Chmielewski/Re/code)

10:20 AM ET, January 20, 2015

Top News:

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

Press Gazette:
Every UK national newspaper editor urges Prime Minister to stop RIPA spying on journalists

Discussion: @anthonylongden1, @raju, @arusbridger, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, @jamesrbuk, @indexcensorship and @spencetimes

Ed Vulliamy / Observer:

A week inside Charlie Hebdo: how the ‘survival issue’ was made — In the wake of the shocking attack on Charlie Hebdo, Ed Vulliamy spent time with the magazine's surviving cartoonists as they mourned their fallen colleagues and put together their survivors' issue

Discussion: @venkatananth

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Techmeme's Gabe Rivera on tech media: ‘A lot of intellectual dishonesty’ — Gabe Rivera has a love-hate relationship with the tech media world. Known both for helming curation site Techmeme and for his often sarcastic Twitter personality, Rivera is knee-deep in the cut-throat Silicon Valley …

Discussion: @ryanlawler, @mgsiegler, @laurengoode, @rich_trenholm, Beyond Search, @martinsfp, @aaronwall, @peterhimler, @gaberivera, @fmanjoo and Talking Biz News

Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:

Sources: DreamWorks Animation may cut over 350 production and support jobs in California — DreamWorks Animation plans substantial layoffs — Stung by a series of box office misfires and failed sale attempts, DreamWorks Animation plans a substantial number of layoffs, two people familiar with the matter said.

Discussion: Variety, @danielnmiller, Hollywood Reporter, Home Media Magazine and The Wrap

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Sources say The Sun newspaper has quietly dropped its topless ‘Page 3’ section following campaign by critics — Has the Sun axed Page 3 topless pictures? — Is the Sun poised to drop Page 3 after more than 44 years of topless pictures? Several close to the tabloid have indicated …

Discussion: @dylsharpe, Guardian, @suttonnick, ABC, @sixteenthcgirl, @arusbridger, @unamullally, @lisaocarroll, @rossalynwarren, @davidfolkenflik, @charlenewhite, Digital Spy, @undercovermutha, @tomgara, @jo_elvin, @janinegibson, @mattkmoore and @nomorepage3

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Online Retailer Overstock.com to Launch OTT Service This Year — MIAMI — Salt Lake City-based Overstock.com will launch an over the top content service by mid-year that aims to take advantage of the discount retailer's Internet and mobile traffic. — Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Deloitte Says Millennials Will Spend $62 Billion on Media in 2015 — Everybody knows the under-35 crowd are less avid consumers of traditional media than their parents. — Yet a new forecast from Deloitte predicts that North America's 83 million 18- to 34-year-old millennials …

Discussion: @rjkeith, @lavrusik, @itsdavidford, @shannonpareil and @shawngeller

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 …

Hollywood Reporter:

CEO of Redbox Parent Company Outerwall Steps Down — The CEO of Redbox parent company Outerwall, J. Scott Di Valerio, has stepped down and resigned from the Board, Outerwall announced Tuesday. — Board member Nora M. Denzel will serve as interim CEO, as the board initiates a search process to identify the next CEO.

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Japanese journalist threatened with death on Isis video — Jihadists demand $200m ransom for the lives of two hostages — A journalist is one of two Japanese hostages who face being murdered by Islamic State (Isis) unless the organisation is paid a $200m ransom (£130m) by the Tokyo government.

Discussion: Associated Press

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Journalists, lawyers, social workers form Professionals for Information Privacy Coalition to oppose UK police spying — Lawyers and social workers join forces with journalists to call for curb on police spying powers — Lawyers' groups and social workers have joined forces with the National Union …

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

New York Times' The Upshot gathers steam, but the paper has done little to capitalize with ads — The Upshot Emerges as Potentially Lucrative Franchise at The Times — The New York Times' 20 most-popular stories of 2014 included two from its news-explainer section The Upshot: “Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?”