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3:15 AM ET, February 6, 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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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.
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 …
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 more than 20% on revenue miss  —  Pandora plunged sharply after the music streaming company on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that widely missed expectations as mobile advertising growth slowed.
Discussion: Forbes, Pandora, @mmasnick, Mashable and GeekWire
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 …
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 …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Nielsen Pitching New ‘Tweets Per Impression’ Metric to Entertainment Marketers  —  SAN DIEGO-Nielsen has begun engaging movie studios and TV networks on a new metric-tweets per impression-that gauges the social impact of entertainment marketing efforts.  —  Erika Faust, VP of client services …
Discussion: AdExchanger
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
Angelica Das / Center for Media & Social Impact:
Sundance panel explores the difference between documentary and journalism  —  Sundance 2015: Documentary or Journalism?  —  The blurry lines between documentary filmmaking and journalism were a hot topic at this year's Sundance Film Festival.  To find documentary films involving high …
 
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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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