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8:55 PM ET, January 21, 2015

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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
How Fox News is betting on anchor Megyn Kelly to maintain its viewer base and grow young audiences  —  The Megyn Kelly Moment  —  On a gray Wednesday in November, the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and four producers gathered around a conference table on the 17th floor of the News Corporation building in Manhattan.
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Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
State of the Union Drew Lowest TV Audience in 15 Years
Alan Yuhas / Guardian:
White House breaks own State of the Union embargo for online audience
John McDermott / Digiday:
Facebook's opaque hoax fix lacks human verification, and could let users work en masse to suppress news  —  Facebook's problematic fix to its hoax problem  —  Facebook wants to solve digital publishing's problem with the truth.  But in trying to rid the world of viral hoaxes, the social network has introduced some new concerns.
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Benhuh / Medium:
Facebook Hoaxsters and Satirists, Bring Your A-Game to Cheezburger  —  In defense of having fun at the expense of the ignorant.  —  On the surface, Facebook's anti-hoax campaign seems like a good thing.  I can't remember the number of times I facepalmed at watching genuine outrage …
Discussion: NPR, @randfish, @somecody and @benhuh
Camilla Turner / Telegraph:
The Sun brings back its topless Page 3 model under headline “Clarifications and corrections”  —  The Sun brings back page 3 - Telegraph  —  The Sun have printed a topless model on Page 3, ending days of speculation that the feature was dead.  The newspaper has tweeted out a picture …
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Maureen Morrison / AdAge:
Flipboard Introduces New Ad Unit: Promoted Items  —  Creativity Reimagined  —  First Flipboard used ad templates taken from print and TV.  But now the mobile news reader is adding what it's calling Promoted Items, a service that lets brands distribute content inside users' personal magazines.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
The New Republic loses five staffers: COO, production, design, and comms directors, plus story editor  —  Five more resign from TNR  —  Five more high-level staffers resigned from The New Republic over the last week: Chief operating officer Sloan Eddleston, production director Trina Robertson …
Leo Kelion / BBC:
BBC revamping news app for iOS, Android with specialized feeds of user's choice and local news  —  BBC News app revamp offers personalised coverage  —  WATCH: Rory Cellan-Jones tries out the new BBC News app  —  The BBC's News app has been given a major overhaul with the goal of offering a more “personalised” service.
Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
Sony's Crackle will stream ad-supported “The Interview” for free “as soon as next year”  —  ‘The Interview’ Will Stream for Free on Crackle  —  “The Interview” will stream on Crackle.  Eventually.  —  The Sony-owned service announced its intentions to distribute …
moot / 4chan.org:
Christopher Poole announces retirement from 4chan, says “senior volunteers” will run site  —  THE NEXT CHAPTER  —  I founded 4chan eleven and a half years ago at the age of 15, and after more than a decade of service, I've decided it's time for me to move on. 4chan …
Reuters:
Netflix's accelerated global rollout catches Wall Street off guard  —  (Reuters) - Netflix Inc's faster-than-expected rollout in overseas markets surprised many analysts, who scrambled to raise their price targets on the stock.  —  Shares of the video streaming service …
Marc Graser / Variety:
Relativity Media Invests in Digital Publisher Say Media, Angela Courtin Joins Board  —  Expanding its in-house marketing capabilities, Relativity Media has made an investment in Say Media and will use the firm to promote its films and TV shows, music, fashion, sports and branded entertainment divisions.
Discussion: TVNewsCheck.com
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Facebook enabling advertisers to target people posting on Super Bowl topics in near real time  —  Facebook Packages Own Super Bowl Audience for Ad Dollars  —  Company Will Track Status Updates for Game-Related Keywords  —  2015 Marketing Fact Pack  —  Facebook is creating …
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Fortune expanding video programming  —  Fortune magazine is stepping up its game in the digital video and print design arenas, editor Alan Murray told staff in a memo this morning.  —  To expand its video output on Fortune.com, the Time Inc. magazine has hired Susie Gharib …
 
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David Meyer / Gigaom:
Dutch court orders ebook resale site Tom Kabinet to shut down until it can remove illegally obtained content
Discussion: ITworld.com and DutchNews.nl
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vessel Signs More YouTube Stars to Subscription Service, Launches Limited Beta Test
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Running costs of BBC's London headquarters are triple UK average
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Mic hires three former Vox producers for new video team
Discussion: @samthonis
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Apple acquires UK startup Semetric, which runs music analytics service Musicmetric
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