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9:05 AM ET, January 28, 2016

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Sheryl Sandberg sees Facebook as a second-screen to TV ads as company claims 500M users watch 100M hours of video per day  —  Facebook Says Video Is Huge — 100 Million Hours Per Day Huge  —  Facebook's obsession with video — getting users to both upload and consume it on Facebook …
Michael Calderone / Huffington Post:
Bloomberg Editor Quits Over Fear The Company Can't Cover Michael Bloomberg Aggressively  —  “The bottom line is, you can't cover the circus unless you can write about one of the biggest elephants in the room,” said Kathy Kiely.  —  Can Bloomberg aggressively cover Bloomberg?
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to propose new rules to give cable and satellite customers more choice over set top boxes, 40 telco and media groups plan coalition to oppose the initiative  —  FCC to Propose Overhauling Rules on Set-Top Boxes  —  Measure, aimed at cutting cable bills, likely would let consumers choose among competing devices
Benjamin Wallace / Vulture:
Behind the rise and fall of Relativity Media and CEO Ryan Kavanaugh  —  The Epic Fail of Hollywood's Hottest Algorithm  —  In an industry where no one knows anything, here, finally, was someone who seemed to know something: Ryan Kavanaugh, a spikily red-haired man-child with an impish grin …
Thomas Oide / The Maneater:
University of Missouri suspends professor Melissa Click, who called for “muscle” against student reporter  —  Melissa Click suspended by UM System Board of Curators pending further investigation  —  Suspension comes after being charged for third-degree assault on Monday.
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
The New York Times files copyright lawsuit against publisher of War is Beautiful, a book that argues the Times glamorizes war  —  New York Times Sues Publisher Over War Photos, Fair Use At Issue  —  The paper of record is raising eyebrows with a questionable copyright lawsuit.
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Arise TV: Owner of London-based TV news channel Nduka Obaigbena ‘questioned in Nigeria anti-fraud inquiry’  —  The owner of a London-based global television news channel is being questioned in a major inquiry by Nigeria's anti-fraud unit, while scores of his British workers are pursuing legal action over unpaid wages.
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Washington Post introduces Backdrop feature on all election stories, a pop-up providing background information  —  The Washington Post builds new feature to add context to election coverage  —  The pop-up button called Backdrop will be available on all stories about the 2016 US presidential race
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Conor Dougherty / New York Times:
What it's like to cover Google when you can't get an interview with Larry Page  —  Try to Interview Google's Chief Executive.  It's Emasculating.  —  I started as The New York Times's Google beat reporter in August 2014.  Shortly thereafter, I told the company's public relations people …
Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
20th Century Fox Signs Chinese Streaming Deal with Baidu's iQIYI  —  20th Century Fox will begin streaming movies like “The Martian” in China through a deal with search giant Baidu's subscription Internet video portal iQIYI, the companies said Wednesday.  —  Financial terms weren't disclosed.
 
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