Mediagazer: Redstone's Pay Cut by Two-Thirds at Viacom as Dauman Gets Raise (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

3:40 AM ET, January 24, 2015

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Donald R. Winslow / NPPA:

Sports Illustrated Lays Off All Staff Photographers — The remaining six staff photographers at Sports Illustrated magazine were all laid off yesterday. — Staff photographers Robert Beck, Simon Bruty, Bill Frakes, David E. Klutho, John W. McDonough, and Al Tielemans were informed …

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Kim Severson / New York Times:

Modern Farmer's future in doubt as editorial staff leaves; PR firm says magazine will be published again in summer with new staff — Modern Farmer Ceases Publication — Modern Farmer, the 100,000-circulation quarterly and website that tried to link effete urban farmers' market culture …

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Michael Bloomberg offered to buy the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said the paper not for sale — People Are Talking About Michael Bloomberg Buying the New York Times, Including Michael Bloomberg — If the former mayor tries, it won't be without its challenges.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon To Stream Golden Globe Winner “Transparent” For Free On Saturday, While Offering Discounted Prime Membership — Fresh off the heels of its first Golden Globes win, Amazon is taking advantage of the increased exposure its Netflix-like video streaming service, Prime Instant Video …

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Committee to Protect Journalists:

Imprisoned Russian journalist sentenced to new three-year jail term — The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the conviction and three-year sentence handed to critical reporter Sergei Reznik in Russia today and calls on authorities to overturn the verdict on appeal.

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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Walmart starts selling its Vudu Spark streaming stick for $25 — Remember Walmart's very own HDMI streaming stick, which I spotted in the FFC's online database two months ago? Turns out Walmart already started selling it for just $24.95, and is now getting ready to make it more widely available.

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Redstone's Pay Cut by Two-Thirds at Viacom as Dauman Gets Raise — Viacom Inc. lowered the total compensation of Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone, its controlling shareholder, by almost two thirds to $13.2 million. — Philippe Dauman, chief executive officer, got a raise to $44.3 million …

Discussion: The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter

Tom Risen / US News:

Barrett Brown's Prison Time Raises Cybersecurity, Journalism Concerns — The sentencing of an online writer and activist raises new questions about the nature of journalism in a digital age. — Members of Anonymous take part in the Million Mask March in front of the White House on Nov. 5 …

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Is Times Vulgarity Policy Wise? Or Full of ‘Slop’? — When Jonathan Martin jumped through hoops last week to avoid using a vulgarity in the lead anecdote of his story, some readers let me know they didn't like it. — The first two paragraphs of his story on Republican options for 2016 went like this:

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Bob Dylan Gives Away 50,000 Copies of His New Album to AARP The Magazine Readers — Kind of Like U2's iTunes Strategy — Bob Dylan is borrowing a page from U2's playbook to help promote his new album “Shadows in the Night” — although Mr. Dylan's approach is far more analogue than U2's …

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Ken Doctor / Capital New York:

Cerberus, Apollo bidding for Digital First Media — After one cost-cutting private equity company has spent close to half a decade wielding the knife at Digital First Media, how many new “efficiencies” might a second P.E. buyer find? That's the question we may soon see answered …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, @nickwoltman and @stevebuttry

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Filmmakers are finding more buyers at Sundance as digital firms join traditional buyers — Sundance goes digital: Why it's a great time to be a filmmaker — You've made a spellbinding drama or a heart-wrenching documentary. Now what? — Now you try to sell it to distributors, at the Sundance Film Festival.