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1:20 PM ET, January 27, 2015

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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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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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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling convicted of espionage in leak to NYT reporter James Risen
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: @brianboyer
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.
Justin Rocket Silverman / NY Daily News:
Vivian Schiller talks tech integration in journalism at Daily News Innovation Lab ‘Conversation’ event  —  While touting a strong economy and the number of industry jobs, Schiller — whose past gigs found her in management positions at NBC News, NPR, The New York Times and Twitter …
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.
Discussion: 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.
 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Four years after Met began investigating journalists: £33.5m spent, 64 arrested and/or charged, four jailed
Richard Parker / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the Houston Chronicle is catching up to a changing city
Economist:
Without the threat of widespread piracy that musicians face, authors and publishers may constrain the rise of all-you-can read e-book subscriptions
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Texas Monthly publisher resigns, president retires; Cincinnati mag publisher to be president
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Laura Mills / Associated Press:
Russian security forces raid independent Crimean TV station
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
News VP for Lee Enterprises will step down
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New York Times:
Facebook Said to Block Pages on Muhammad to Avoid Ban in Turkey
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