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2:53 AM 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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Variety, mUmBRELLA and Adweek
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 …
Discussion: @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 …
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
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.
Discussion: 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.
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 …
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 …
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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