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8:10 AM ET, January 22, 2015

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
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 …
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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
Ian Black / Guardian:
Planned flogging of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi postponed again  —  Medical assessment shows Badawi - who received 50 lashings on 9 January - unfit to face punishment  —  Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was due to be lashed 50 times on Friday.  —  Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger whose public flogging …
Discussion: Sky News
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom Beats Privacy Lawsuit Targeting Disclosures of Kids' Video Viewing History  —  The judge rejects the $5 million claim against Viacom and Google, finding the ways in which Nick.com supposedly identifies its users to third parties to be speculative.  —  According to a survey of 2000 adults …
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: @somecody, @randfish, @benhuh and NPR
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Paul Rosania / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter rolls out “While you were away” feature to iOS users, coming soon to Android and web  —  While you were away...  Today we're introducing something new to your home timeline: a recap of some of the top Tweets you might have missed from accounts you follow.
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 …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC News executives discuss pitfalls of broadcasting Islamic State video  —  Democracy Day live stream of morning editorial meeting provides insight into judgments taken on stories including the Sun ending topless Page 3 models and airing of Isis videos  —  Senior BBC News executives including …
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 …
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 …
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.
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
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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