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9:00 PM ET, January 26, 2016

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google brings real-time responses from presidential candidates to search results in an experimental feature rolled out in partnership with the Fox News Channel  —  Google Takes On Twitter By Integrating Real-Time Responses From Presidential Candidates Into Search Results
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Confirmed: Twitter Appoints Longtime American Express Executive Leslie Berland as CMO  —  Here's some positive executive news coming out of Twitter: It has found its new chief marketing officer.  —  Twitter has appointed longtime American Express executive Leslie Berland to CMO …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Knight News Challenge to give a total of $3.2M to 17 projects that use data to track police misconduct, improve the FOIA process, and more  —  Knight News Challenge winners focus on data and transparency  —  The Knight Foundation just announced the latest round of winners in the Knight News Challenge …
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Meredith close to walking away from Media General, clearing the way for Nexstar-Media General deal  —  Meredith Said Close to Allowing Nexstar's Media General Deal  —  Parties said to be near agreement on termination package  —  Meredith may make announcement Wednesday with earnings
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed sued by British news agency CEN and Michael Leidig for defamation because of story questioning CEN's veracity  —  BuzzFeed Hit With $11 Million Defamation Lawsuit by Viral News Agency  —  Michael Leidig and Central European News sue over a piece titled “The King of Bullsh*t News.”
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
YouTube now lets video creators use Donation Cards, which overlay the page, to help raise money for charities directly  —  YouTube's New Donation Cards Help Video Creators Raise Money For Charities  —  YouTube just made it a lot easier for its users in the U.S. to use their videos to drive donations to nonprofit organizations.
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Joanna Coles joins board of Snapchat  —  Joanna Coles Joins Board of Snapchat  —  Joanna Coles is upping her tech cred.  —  The editor in chief of Cosmopolitan, who also serves as editorial director of Seventeen, joined the board of directors of Snapchat in early December.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
While ‘open’ Guardian faces financial meltdown, paywalled Times is breaking even  — Dominic Ponsford's blog -  —  In 2014, then Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger described The Times paywall as a “19th century business model”, saying The Guardian's “open” online system was “light years” better.
Discussion: @willhumphries_ and @tomwhitwell
Chris O'Shea / Adweek:
Amanda Cox Named Editor of NY Times' Upshot  —  The New York Times has named Amanda Cox editor of its data-centric site The Upshot.  —  Cox was most recently the Times' graphics editor.  She joined the company in 2004.  —  “Amanda Cox has a singular reputation among her colleagues …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Interview with Nonny de la Peña, one of the pioneers of virtual reality journalism  —  Virtual reality pioneer Nonny de la Peña charts the future of VR journalism  —  Nonny de la Peña was the first person to bring modern virtual reality to Sundance, when she debuted Hunger in Los Angeles in 2012.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Behind the launch of the new journalism school at Morgan State University  —  This is what it's like to launch a journalism school from scratch  —  If you had the chance to launch your own journalism school, how would you do it?  If your mind starts to run wild, tack on some limitations …
Discussion: @niemanlab and @niemanlab
 
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