Mediagazer: The Islamic State Plans TV Channel, According to Reports (Debra Kamin/Variety)

5:45 AM ET, January 22, 2015

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Why White House used Medium for State of the Union: “We're trying to find audiences where they are” — Medium editor on SOTU coup: ‘People are already here’ — Newish publishing platform Medium scored a coup yesterday evening when the White House published President Obama's prepared State …

Discussion: On Point with Tom Ashbrook, @andybechtel, @dangillmor, @kreissdaniel, @lisenstromberg and @ryan

Nathaniel Lubin / White House Blog:

State of the Union online: over 1.2M views of White House live stream, 400K views of transcript on Medium — The Enhanced 2015 State of the Union: By the Numbers — Every year, we do everything we can to step up our game around the State of the Union, using new approaches to engage …

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Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:

State of the Union Drew Lowest TV Audience in 15 Years — The president's Tuesday address was watched by 31.7 million viewers across 12 broadcast and cable networks that carried the speech live, despite a two-week campaign style tour and a social media blitz to drum up interest.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Super Bowl Ads: NBC Turns to Tumblr to Post Spots After They Air on TV — NBC Sports has launched a new Super Bowl page on Yahoo's Tumblr that the programmer will use to feature Super Bowl XLIX's TV ads immediately after they air on NBC on Sunday, Feb. 1. — The new NBC Sports Tumblr page …

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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 …

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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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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
The Sun's page 3 website enjoys surge in traffic

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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 …

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John McDermott / Digiday:
Facebook's opaque hoax fix lacks human verification, and could let users work en masse to suppress news

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Paul Farrell / Guardian:

Journalists reporting on asylum seekers referred to Australian police — Exclusive: Journalists covering the Australian government's asylum seeker policies are repeatedly reported to federal police in bid to uncover sources — Journalists reporting on the federal government's asylum-seeker policies …

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Debra Kamin / Variety:

The Islamic State Plans TV Channel, According to Reports — According to reports in both Israeli and international media this week, the Islamic State has a 24-hour television channel in the works. — The station, which if launched will take Isis' well-polished propaganda machine to an entirely new level …

Discussion: Washington Post, NEWS.com.au and Mediaite

Lynne O'Donnell / Associated Press:

Attacks on journalists threaten media freedom in Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When Afghan journalist Hussain Sirat's car disappeared in late December, he assumed it was simply theft, until a man called to say that he had the vehicle, and a gun with which he planned to kill him.

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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

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 …

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