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Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Hashtags featured in 50% of Super Bowl ads; 4 Facebook mentions, 3 Twitter, 1 Snapchat — Super Bowl Commercials With Hashtags Slipped To 50% In 2015 — Facebook is the most mentioned social network with four; Snapchat makes its debut. — Fifty percent of 2015 Super Bowl ads carried hashtags …
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The Next Web and @dannysullivan
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Super Bowl features 15 first-time advertisers, the most since 2000, as ad sales slow — Newcomers Buy Ad Time at the Super Bowl — About a month after advertising on television for the first time, the makers of the free mobile game Heroes Charge decided at the last minute that they wanted …
BBC:
Peter Greste: Al-Jazeera journalist freed by Egypt — Jailed al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste is being deported from Egypt, the state news agency and police say. The Australian ex-BBC correspondent was arrested in December 2013 and imprisoned last June on charges including spreading false news.
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Reuters:
Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy expected to be released from Egypt jail soon - security official — Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy is expected to be released from an Egyptian prison within days, a security official said on Sunday. — The official said paperwork work was being completed …
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@nickkristof and @pen_int
Brian Merchant / Motherboard:
Creator of music blog Hipster Runoff tells how he scaled, burned out, then sold out for $21K — The Last Relevant Blogger — Before he was voted Hipster of the Decade, before he was coining musical subgenres and helping the New York Times understand “alt” culture, Carles …
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Flippa, Gizmodo, @britticisms, The Observer, Junkee, Flavorwire, Stereogum, International Business Times, Hipster Runoff and PAPERMAG
NBC News:
Charlie Hebdo Delays Next Two Issues Because Staff ‘Not Ready’ — The French satirical magazine that published satirical was attacked by militants more than three weeks ago will not publish
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USA Today, Latest News & Headlines and The Week
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How Salon tamed the trolls and saved its online comments — Online comments sections are a double-edged sword for publishers. For those trying to increase loyalty and engagement with readers, comments should be an essential part of an audience strategy. But all too often, they becomes a haven for trolls and spam.
Lydia DePillis / Washington Post:
Why internet journalists don't unionize: lack of leverage, transitory nature of the job market — Why Internet journalists don't organize — The booming world of web media is almost entirely non-union, for reasons that are as much generational as structural.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Thanks:@thestoryline
Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
Venezuela uses US reporter's photo in tourism campaign — He had just been released from detention — MIAMI — The Miami Herald's Jim Wyss made a startling and surreally ironic discovery Friday morning. — The discovery: Venezuela state-run media was using a picture of him to promote tourism to the troubled South American nation.
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Washington Post, @susannahnesmith, @trentondaniel, @nmcrooks, miamiherald and Fusion
Karin Laub / Associated Press:
Video purportedly shows Islamic State beheading Japanese journalist Kenji Goto — Video: Islamic State group beheads Japanese journalist — 3 photos — CAIRO (AP) — An online video released Saturday night purported to show an Islamic State group militant behead Japanese journalist Kenji Goto …
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CNN, AFP, Reuters, Guardian, CBS News, NPR, @abc, @leighwsj, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Online, Al Jazeera English, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America, RT, RTÉ, The Daily Beast, Washington Times, Gawker, The Week, Bloomberg Business, CNN, Mashable, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, TVNZ, NBC News, New York Magazine, Committee to Protect … and Associated Press
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay is now back online after December 9th raid by Swedish police — The Pirate Bay Is Back Online! — Early December The Pirate Bay was raided at the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof data center built into a mountain complex near Stockholm. — After being down for two weeks …
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Terence Lee / Tech in Asia:
Singtel to start Netflix competitor in Asia with Sony Pictures, Warner Bros — Singapore's leading telco Singtel has announced today that it will launch an online streaming video service in Asia. It's a joint-venture with Sony Pictures and Warner Bros, and will bring Hollywood movies …
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Sydney Morning Herald, Channel NewsAsia, Singapore Business Review, TODAYonline and TechCrunch
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