Top News:
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
More than 100 Boston Globe writers, editors, and business side employees pitched in to deliver Sunday papers after widespread problems with new delivery vendor — ‘Army’ of Boston Globe reporters to deliver Sunday's newspaper — If you're a subscriber to the Boston Globe …
Discussion:
BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, Guardian, New York Times, bizjournals, @elanazak, @jayrosen_nyu, @tommytomlinson, mUmBRELLA, @saramorrison, @sporobolus, @danrodricks, Media Nation, @dankennedy_nu, Media Nation, The Huffington Post, @picardonhealth, @dankennedy_nu, bookforum.com, @dangillmor, @dankennedy_nu, @briantimoney, @mviser, @pkcapitol, @davabel, @liquidnewsroom, @mviser, @jacktemp, @feliciagans, @jayrosen_nyu, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, Business Pundit, The Drum and Mashable
Nancy Scola / Politico:
How Medium, which opened a Washington DC office last spring, is courting politicians on the left and right — How Medium is breaking Washington's op-ed habit — The online publishing platform has assiduously courted the political class. — Medium, the three-year-old online publishing platform run …
Discussion:
TeleRead, @pakman, @carloslozadawp, @doree, @edgecliffe, @dangillmor, @gaberivera, @stevenlevy, @msquinn, @mindyfinn, @lpdonovan, @tswilbur and @imgoph
Digital TV Europe:
Netflix reportedly preparing Russia launch this month — The SVoD service will launch locally this month on smart TVs, Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported. — “We hope that there will be more licensed content in Russia, and with the advent of Netflix people will start to get used …
Discussion:
Hollywood Reporter and Variety
Rafat Ali / Skift:
How we built travel news site Skift, now profitable with revenue near “mid single-digits millions”, after giving up on scale and VC funding — How We Got off the Addiction to Venture Capital and Created Our Own Way to Profits — The Skift team on stage, at Skift Global Forum 2015.
Discussion:
@rafat, @zimbalist, @cbinsights, @felixsalmon, @neddesmond, @hunterwalk, @rafat, @wilreynolds, @gaberivera, @jameshorton, @ourmaninchicago, @aassiaharoonhaq, @daniellemorrill, @chrislorusso and @lock
Wall Street Journal:
How Gawker earns revenue through affiliate links, which brought in about $10M in 2014 — How Gawker Brings In Millions Selling Headphones, Chargers and Flashlights — Media company uses affiliate links to help sell products on e-commerce sites — Gawker Media, a network of websites known …
Brooke Borel / Guardian:
Science journalists need to look beyond data and focus on scientists and conflicts of interest — The problem with science journalism: we've forgotten that reality matters most — It's the job of science journalists to look beyond data - we have to look at the people doing the science and whether they have conflicts of interest
Discussion:
@whereisdaz and @virgilwong
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Drudge Report's pro-Trump links stand in contrast with the site's support of Romney in 2012 — Why Is Matt Drudge Boosting Donald Trump? — The Republican frontrunner owes his rise to a whole host of factors. But Drudge's conservative media behemoth could've stopped him. Why didn't it?
Discussion:
The New York Observer
The Independent:
The New York Times' Pakistan printing partner removes front page article on attacks and killings of secular Bengali bloggers — The article Pakistan doesn't want you to read — The International edition of the New York Times newspaper had two blank pages after printers in Pakistan removed an article.
Discussion:
@salmanmasood, @postbaron, @salmanmasood, @limlouisa, New York Times and Democracy Now
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Reality TV giant Discovery tries to return to its roots by spending millions on documentaries and science shows — Life after ‘Honey Boo Boo’: Inside Discovery's fight to grow up — NEW YORK — Since the Discovery Channel first hit the airwaves 30 years ago with an after-school special on icebergs …
Discussion:
New York Times, @dduart3, @leilanimunter and @sci_phile
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter invests in Muzik, maker of high-end wireless headphones; social network will be integrated directly into headphones, allowing users to share music — Twitter Invests In Muzik, a High-End Headphone Startup — Here is something you didn't expect to hear about coming out of CES this year …
Scott Bryan / BuzzFeed:
New BBC Three logo was predicted in BBC comedy sketch nearly two years ago — A BBC Comedy Spookily Predicted BBC Three's Weird New Logo — BBC Three unveiled a new logo today. — No it's not BBCII!, or BBC Two with an exclamation mark after it. — BBC Three added the logo to its Twitter account on Monday.
Discussion:
Guardian, @jamesrbuk, @scottygb and Guido Fawkes
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
US federal government returns music blog OnSmash to owner Kevin Hofman for $7 fee, 5 years after seizing it; Hofman never formally charged with any wrongdoing — 5 Years and $7 Later, U.S. Returns a Seized Hip-Hop Site — In the early hours of Thanksgiving Day in 2010, all the music at OnSmash.com …