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Justin McCurry / Guardian:
Hopes raised for release of Japanese journalist held by Isis — Jordan may be willing to free convicted suicide bomber in return for release of Kenji Goto and Jordanian pilot, says report — Jordan may be willing to free a convicted suicide bomber in return for the release of a Japanese journalist …
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Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Japan Turns to ‘I Am Kenji’ Facebook Page on Hostage Crisis — TOKYO (AP) — The plight of freelance journalist Kenji Goto, taken captive by Islamic State group militants, has gripped Japan, and the people's hopes for his safety are now on Facebook with a simple, unifying plea: “I am Kenji.”
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International Business Times, BBC, ABC News, Associated Press, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, NBC News, Reuters and The Straits Times
Trevor Timm / Guardian:
The war on leaks has gone way too far when journalists' emails are under surveillance — The US government's demands for the private emails of WikiLeaks staffers is outrageous. Disliking Julian Assange is a disgraceful reason anyone to stay silent — he outrageous legal attack on WikiLeaks …
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Jinen Kamdar / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter starts rolling out group Direct Messaging, 30-second video capture and sharing — Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera — A few months ago, we mentioned some features coming soon, and today we're excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a new mobile video experience.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say — How the language police are perverting liberalism. — Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say — How the language police are perverting liberalism. — Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student …
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Tom LoBianco / Indianapolis Star:
Governor of Indiana plans to launch state-run, taxpayer-funded news service to compete with other media — Pence state-run news outlet will compete with media — Gov. Mike Pence is starting a state-run news service that will provide pre-written news stories to Indiana news outlets …
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Poynter, @tomlobianco, @ourright2know, @davidsirota, @crewcrew, @wibcraysteele, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, @heycori, @indynewsie, @simonmaloy, @carrieritchie, @jonfine, @spj_tweets, Mediaite, Hit & Run, @ericbradner, @ktumulty, Politico, @laurenstarky, @amoswtlcindy, The Huffington Post, @jdawsey1, @buzzfeedben, @ethanklapper, @tomlobianco and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
London Live local television station to cut third of staff — Evgeny Lebedev's channel to re-invest savings made from around 20 people going from news and current affairs teams into programming content — Evgeny Lebedev's struggling London TV station is to cut 20 jobs, around a third of its staff …
Investigative News Network:
Reporters Committee Partners With INN As A Media Law Resource For Nonprofit News Organizations — The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has partnered with the Investigative News Network to provide its more than 100 non-profit news organization members with First Amendment …
NPR Visuals:
How NPR created a passive TV app to display voting results at election night parties — Putting Radio On The Televison — For election night 2014, we wanted to do something different. — We guessed that the dedicated wonks — the ones who want to drill down into detailed data and maps …
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Brant Houston / The American University in Cairo:
Investigative journalists build new networks and partnerships, but funding challenges remain — WATCHDOGS UNLEASHED — It was February 2009 when veteran investigative journalist Laura Frank lost her job with the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, a newspaper that had served Denver for 150 years.
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Employees Organizing Push to Unionize Politico — Employees at Politico are organizing a push to unionize the news outlet, amid recent shakeups at the inside-the-Beltway publication. — The effort is being led by Mike Elk, a Politico labor reporter and a strident proponent of unions who started at the outlet last year.
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@emmaroller, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
France seeks to sanction web companies as hate-speech accomplices if they host extremist messages — France Seeks to Sanction Web Companies for Posts Pushing Terror — The French government is stepping up the pressure on Google Inc. (GOOGL) and Facebook Inc. (FB) to help in the struggle against terrorist groups.
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VentureBeat and The Verge
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Vox Media produces social-only content to be ready for any Facebook moves and to extend reach — Why Vox Media makes content just for social media — Facebook may not be sharing native video revenue with publishers yet. But when it does, Vox Media wants to be ready.
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Snapchat's new Discover feature puts news and entertainment a swipe away from your stories — Snapchat has launched “Discover,” a new feature that highlights stories and videos provided both by outside publishers and by Snapchat's in-house team of journalists and videographers.
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