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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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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Snapchat's new Discover feature could be a significant moment in the evolution of mobile news — You may have missed it in the #snowpocalpyse that wasn't1, but Snapchat unveiled a new feature called Discover Tuesday that puts news into the ephemeral chat app so popular among American teens and young adults:
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Columbia Journalism Review, Forbes, ClickZ, Alexandra Arteaga, laurenpershke, Media Today and Tomorrow, @jbenton and @samkirkland
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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 …
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Variety, Bloomberg Business, AdAge, @jesseredniss, Engadget, The New York Observer, The Next Web, Tubefilter, @peterlauria3, Digital Spy and @mathewi
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 …
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@besvinick, @caseynewton, @calebgarling and @buster
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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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.
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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 …
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@avilarenata, @thomas_drake1, @apblake, @mattcutts and Boing Boing
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:
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FishbowlNY, Columbia Journalism Review, Gawker, @jamilsmith, @elteng12 and @brianstelter
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.
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.
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New York Times, The Verge, Gigaom, Re/code, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Spotify Blog, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and VentureBeat
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.
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@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
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The Intercept, Techdirt, RT, PandoDaily, Engadget, The Hill, TorrentFreak, Gigaom, Gizmodo, The Verge and Globe and Mail
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.
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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.
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@thdigitalreader and @arhomberg
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