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11:25 PM ET, February 5, 2015

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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
In wake of hack, Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal to step down  —  Amy Pascal to Step Down From Top Sony Post  —  Amid the fallout of the ever-widening Sony hacking crisis, Amy Pascal will step down from her post as co-chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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John Herrman / The Awl:
Media companies are turning to apps and services instead of the traditional web for distribution  —  The Next Internet Is TV  —  I was talking to someone who works at one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept …
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Twitter beats Q4 revenue expectations with $479M, nets just 4M new monthly users  —  Twitter's users are still growing at a slow rate, but its revenue is booming.  —  Today, Twitter reported fourth quarter earnings for 2014, with revenue of $479 million on non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $0.12.
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Google's slippery slope: If search giant pays Twitter for content, should it pay all publishers?  —  Toward the end of Bloomberg's story about a potential deal between Google and Twitter to display tweets in search results, this bit at the end made me sit up:
JeeYeon Park / CNBC:
Pandora plunges more than 20% after missing estimates with $268M in revenue  —  Pandora plunges nearly 20% on revenue miss  —  Pandora plunged sharply after the music streaming company on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street expectations and weaker-than-expected sales outlook.
Discussion: Forbes, Pandora, @mmasnick, Mashable and GeekWire
Pew Research Center:
Majority of investigative journalists believe the US has collected their phone, email, or online data  —  Investigative Journalists and Digital Security  —  Perceptions of Vulnerability and Changes in Behavior  —  About two-thirds of investigative journalists surveyed (64%) …
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Pilot Tells Jake Tapper: Brian Williams Helicopter Did Take Fire  —  After speaking to CNN for an online article earlier in the day, helicopter pilot Rich Krell confirmed in an interview with The Lead's Jake Tapper Thursday afternoon that the chopper carrying Brian Williams in 2003 …
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
The various versions of the RPG hit helicopter story as told by Brian Williams over 12 years
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Postmedia cuts national writer jobs, offers newsroom buyouts  —  Postmedia Network Canada Corp. has cut the jobs of several national writers and offered voluntary buyouts to newsroom staff at the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen and Windsor Star.  —  Employees learned of the latest round …
Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
Madonna just premiered a new music video on Snapchat  —  Snapchat's new Discover feature is barely a week old, but it just got the platform's first big exclusive: Madonna's first music video from her new album just premiered on the company's own Discover channel.
New York Times:
Recent Sony hack sparks industry discussion about changes to MPAA, including refurbishing/selling DC HQ, expanding membership to digital and TV  —  After Sony Hacking, the M.P.A.A. Considers Major Changes  —  LOS ANGELES — Fissures revealed by the hacking at Sony Pictures Entertainment …
Discussion: The Wrap, @alisternburg and Variety
Seb Joseph / The Drum:
Bauer centralises digital business to create single customer view for advertisers  —  Bauer has pulled all its digital business under one division in a bid to offer advertisers a more detailed view of customers across its portfolio of titles.  —  The creation of Bauer Xcel Media sees …
Discussion: mUmBRELLA
Eva Holland / Longreads Blog:
How Ta-Nehisi Coates built the best comment section on the internet—and why it can't last.  —  Ta-Nehisi Coates started blogging for The Atlantic on August 4, 2008.  His first post was titled “Sullivan... McArdle... Fallows... Coates???” and it laid down his terms from the start: “My only rule, really, is simple,” he wrote.
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
FCC's vague general conduct rule against harming consumers could be a loophole  —  The FCC's net neutrality proposal is awesome, but has a loophole  —  Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock  —  Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock
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Angelica Das / Center for Media & Social Impact:
Sundance panel explores the difference between documentary and journalism
Anthony Wing Kosner / Forbes:
Apple's Next Move In TV Will Filter The A-List Brands From All The Rest
Anya George Tharakan / Reuters:
News Corp hits revenue of $2.28B on strength of book publishing, digital real estate services
Discussion: News Corp
Alec Luhn / Guardian:
Moscow Times forced offline by hackers after being criticized by pro-Kremlin commenters for being anti-Putin
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