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4:00 PM ET, February 2, 2015

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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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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
2015's Superbowl sees highest overnight ratings in its history, up 4% from last year  —  Super Bowl Ratings Hit Historic High With Patriots Close Win Over Seahawks  —  It was so so close, so similar and yet so very different from last year.  Last night's Super Bowl was of course similar …
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Hard-line judge reportedly assigned case of Post reporter Jason Rezaian, jailed in Iran  —  An Iranian judge known as the “hanging judge” for his harsh sentencing practices has been named to hear the case of a Washington Post reporter who has been imprisoned in Tehran for more than half a year, a human rights group said Saturday.
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Family of Post reporter held in Iran issues statement  —  The family of Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter who has been detained in Iran for more than half a year, issued the following statement Sunday in response to the naming of Judge Abolghassem Salavati to hear the case in Revolutionary Court:
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
After Turmoil, The New Republic Re-emerges on Newsstands  —  The New Republic is a small magazine that set off a big commotion.  —  Late last year the magazine's owner, Chris Hughes, decided to replace Franklin Foer, a former top editor whom Mr. Hughes had lured back to run the magazine in 2012.
Mark Colvin / Guardian:
In the end, Peter Greste became an irritant for the Egyptian government  —  The dignity and intelligence of Peter Greste's family was a central factor in his release.  Now he will be the ambassador for the freedom of his Al-Jazeera colleagues  —  verything started to change in the 1990s, during the Balkans war.
Discussion: Guardian
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@skynewsbreak:
Freed al Jazeera journalist Peter #Greste says his release is a “step forward” and hopes his colleagues will be released
Discussion: BBC
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
The NYT continues its search for a digital chief, announcement not expected soon  —  Times digital chief search hits a bump  —  On The New York Times Company's annual earnings conference call tomorrow, expect few surprises: 2014's four quarters won't be markedly different from 2013's …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Emily Bell / Guardian:
As it becomes harder to censor journalists, intimidation and violence increase  —  Journalists back in the firing line as digital media struggles to protect its own  —  As it has become harder to censor individual journalists and independent teams, the intimidation, violence and imprisonment has increased
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.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Univision Joins Lineup of Dish's Sling TV  —  Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications has struck a deal with Dish Network's over-the-top Sling video distribution service.  Sling's rights will include both live and video-on-demand content.  —  The terms of the agreement include …
Discussion: Gigaom and NetNewsCheck Latest
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
British army creates team of Facebook warriors  —  Soldiers familiar with social media sought for 77th Brigade, which will be responsible for ‘non-lethal warfare’  —  The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media …
Discussion: Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Louis CK's latest digital-only comedy special outsells his first with little buzz or promotion  —  Louis CK's New Straight-to-Fan Special Has No Buzz - and It's Doing Better Than His First One  —  Three years ago, Louis CK filmed his own stand-up comedy special, then sold it on his own Web site.
Barrett Brown / The Daily Beast:
My Post Cyberpunk Indentured Servitude  —  Journalist Barrett Brown looks back in anger at the government's trumped up charges against him as he starts a 63 month prison sentence.  —  Not long ago I was a mild-mannered freelance journalist, activist, and satirist, contributing to outlets like the Guardian and Vanity Fair.
Discussion: @timbray
 
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Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
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