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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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@learmonth, 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
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Fact-Based, In-Depth News, 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 …
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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
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
AOL officially plans to shut down TUAW and Joystiq, both among the earliest tech blogs — FAREWELL TO TUAW—AND TO A WHOLE ERA OF TECH BLOGGING — I was hoping that the ugly rumors were false. But TUAW—The Unofficial Apple Weblog, which has long been one of the most dependable sources of Apple news …
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TUAW, Electronista and Boing Boing
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.
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@hugeinc, @rowankaiser and @antderosa
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.
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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@errrica, @robpegoraro, @greenhousenyt and 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
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
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Constantly tweaking: How The Guardian continues to develop its in-house analytics system — A little over a year ago, Katharine Viner, now the editor in chief of The Guardian US, had a question for the paper's developers: Why didn't Ophan, The Guardian's internal analytics tool, work on mobile?
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@vivian and @amontalenti
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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