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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC launches Taster, a new website to test early concepts and experiments — BBC Launches Taster to Incubate Content, Technology Ideas — The BBC on Monday unveiled BBC Taster, a new web site that it described as “a space to develop its latest ideas for digital content and emerging technology.”
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Lena Dunham, creator of HBO drama Girls, partners with BBC to test new material on Taster — Girls creator in BBC digital experiment — The writer of HBO drama Girls, Lena Dunham, is among names attached to BBC Taster, an experimental new platform for digital content and emerging technology.
Lisa Campbell / The Bookseller:
blinkbox Books to close after Waterstones talks fail — Tesco will close its e-books service blinkbox Books at the end of February after talks with Waterstones to buy the platform broke down. — All 60 core staff who work on the blinkbox Books platform are now expected to enter …
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TechCrunch, blinkbox News and Engadget
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
In response to rise of programmatic advertising, AOL drastically restructures ad sales staff — As Ad Business Shifts to Machines, AOL Restructures Its Sales Staff in a Major Reorg — According to numerous sources, AOL is now initiating long-planned changes to drastically reorganize …
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@mdudas, @waltmossberg and @jayrosen_nyu
Hank Green / Medium:
Hank Green defends his and other YouTube stars' interviews with Obama after media mockery — Holy S**t, I Interviewed the President — Bethany Mota, Glozell Green, and I got an opportunity that a lot of people don't think we deserved. — Bethany ended our interview by asking for a selfie with Obama.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
11 of 14 projects in Sundance Film Festival's experimental showcase use virtual reality — How virtual reality ate the Sundance Film Festival — The future of independent film may not be film at all — The most buzzworthy feature of 2015's Sundance Film Festival isn't a film at all …
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TechCrunch, @verge, · Beats of Bits, @kickstarter, Engadget and /Film
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Why the NYT gave more attention to the murders at Charlie Hebdo than Boko Haram's massacre in Baga, Nigeria — When Calculus of Loss Doesn't Add Up — IF you start from the premise that every human life is of equal importance, then the judgments of news organizations will often be confounding.
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Guardian:
WikiLeaks demands answers after three staffers notified Google handed their emails to US government in 2012 — WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government — Search giant gave FBI emails and digital data belonging to three staffers
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Guardian, Gigaom, WikiLeaks, Gizmodo, @emilybell, @evacide, The Inquisitr News, Raw Story and Sydney Morning Herald
Austin Smith / Mediashift:
Why It's Risky Business for Publishers to Build Their Own CMS — The following piece is a guest post. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. — 2014 was a crazy year for news technology. A new wave of publishers running custom software gained traction, while established news …
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News One:
Johnson Publishing Company wants to sell photo archive of 70-year-old Ebony magazine for $40M — Johnson Publishing Company Selling Iconic 70-Year-Old Photo Archive — A woman holds a copy of Ebony magazine, featuring a cover picture of U.S. presidential hopeful , Sen. Barack Obama …
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John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal:
Catch-up technology lets shows build audience and buzz slowly, which is leading to more second seasons of unproven shows — The Rise of TV's Second Season — Changing viewing habits are leading to more second seasons for unproven shows
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux / CNN:
Rapper faces charges for lyrics under CA law making it illegal to benefit from gang activities — Rapper Tiny Doo facing long prison sentence over lyrics — (CNN)Song lyrics that glorify violence are hardly uncommon. But a prosecutor in California says one rapper's violent lyrics go beyond creative license to conspiracy.
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@inner_chi, @justin_kanew, UPROXX, Examiner, Times of San Diego, U-T San Diego stories, Daily Mail, Washington Times, FITSNews and Media Law Prof Blog
Quinn Norton / Medium:
Barrett Brown's sentence shows the increasing dangers of security journalism, and why reporters should step back until laws are fixed — We Should All Step Back from Security Journalism — I'll Go First — I started studying the computer underground back when I worked in tech, as an early web developer, in the mid 1990s.
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Tom Risen / US News:
Barrett Brown's Prison Time Raises Cybersecurity, Journalism Concerns
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