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6:10 PM ET, January 28, 2015

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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Andrew Sullivan to give up blogging; future of The Dish unclear  —  A Note To My Readers  —  One of the things I've always tried to do at the Dish is to be up-front with readers.  This sometimes means grotesque over-sharing; sometimes it means I write imprudent arguments I have to withdraw …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
“SnapperHero” Snapchat Scripted Series to Debut with YouTube Stars  —  Here's another step in Snapchat's transformation from messaging service to media platform: A “scripted series” of mini-movies made by social media stars.  —  “SnapperHero,” which is supposed to debut shortly …
Michael Sippey / Medium:
Snapchat's Discover feature for news could also function more broadly as an app platform  —  theory: snapchat launched an app platform  —  And then go through the list of capabilities they can bring...  - Interaction?  Check.  You may not have all the tools of Swift or Java at your disposal …
Wolfgang Blau / Guardian:
The Guardian launches its new responsive website worldwide  —  Welcome to the new Guardian website  —  After more than 18 months of development, the Guardian has unveiled a new site for its readers in the UK and around the world  —  The Guardian has a history stretching back almost 200 years of creating world-class journalism.
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Seb Joseph / The Drum:   Guardian overhauls site in anticipation of publishers selling ads based on time
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Gawker Media Generated $45 Million In Net Revenue Last Year And It's Raising A $15 Million Round Of Debt  —  Nick Denton orders the shrimp linguine.  He doesn't look at Balthazar's menu; the media mogul frequents the restaurant and everyone from the hostess to fellow diners knows who he is.
Washington Post:
Google says it fought gag orders in WikiLeaks investigation  —  Google has fought all gag orders preventing it from telling customers that their e-mails and other data were sought by the U.S. government in a long-running investigation of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times moves reporter from national race beat  —  Tanzina Vega, the New York Times reporter on the paper's national race beat, has been reassigned to the newly created position of Bronx courthouse reporter, according to a staff memo from New York Times metro editor Wendell Jamieson and metro print editor Dean Chang:
Ainsley O'Connell / Fast Company:
Rolling Stone archive comes to Google Play Newsstand on Friday; 3-4 stories per issue available free  —  ROLLING STONE TEAMS UP WITH GOOGLE PLAY TO MONETIZE ITS ARCHIVES  —  When Robin Williams died last year, mourning fans turned to the web—and Rolling Stone was ready for them.
Discussion: The Wrap, The Verge and ABC News
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Sony And Spotify Debut PlayStation Music Streaming Service, Music Unlimited To Close  —  Sony is relaunching its streaming music service for PlayStation Network, and this time it's bringing in a partner with ample expertise in streaming music services: Spotify.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Unlike the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, the New York Times Company has no reason to sell anytime soon  —  4 reasons the New York Times Company won't be sold anytime soon  —  We learned last week that Michael Bloomberg would like to buy the New York Times Company.
Discussion: @raju and @rickedmonds
CBC News:
Canada's electronic spy agency tracks millions of online movie, photo, music, and other downloads worldwide  —  CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents  —  Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance  —  CSE tracks millions of downloads daily 1:45
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
Days before kickoff, NBC sells out of Super Bowl ad space  —  NBC has (finally) crossed the goal line and sold out all of its Super Bowl ad time.  —  NBC, the network televising the big game on February 1, said Wednesday that it had sold all of the available ad space for Sunday's game at a record average price of $4.5 million-per-ad.
Discussion: The Wrap, Adweek and Business Insider
Nate Hoffelder / Ink, Bits, & Pixels:
Berlin-based e-reader company txtr is bankrupt, and an administrator has been appointed  —  Txtr is Bankrupt, Administrator Appointed  —  Hard on the heels of Tesco pulling out of the UK ebook market comes troubling news from Germany.  —  A German tech blog reported on Wednesday that txtr is insolvent.
Discussion: @thdigitalreader and @arhomberg
 
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
World Service cuts will reduce UK's global ‘soft power’, BBC report warns
Discussion: BBC
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Sky News to merge digital and TV staff in newsroom shakeup
Nate Hoffelder / Ink, Bits, & Pixels:
Nielsen shows Kindle Unlimited subscribers in US and UK spend more on books than non-subscribers
Discussion: SlashGear and TechCrunch
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
News aggregator Anews raises $2.7M for further international expansion
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
AOL Likely to Shutter Gaming Site Joystiq in Larger Content Cleanup
Discussion: Adweek, Joystiq, AdExchanger and Circa News
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Azerbaijan prolongs pretrial detention period for investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova by two months
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Joshua Topolsky / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Business launches, integrating Bloomberg News, Businessweek, and Bloomberg TV
Leslie T Chang / Guardian:
The news website that's keeping press freedom alive in Egypt