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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Leslie Moonves Named CBS Chairman, Replacing Sumner Redstone — Leslie Moonves will become chairman of CBS Corp., a move that investors may interpret as an effort to solidify the management of the company given questions about the health of its executive chairman, Sumner Redstone, who also holds the same position at Viacom.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
How media dealt with Juan Thompson's retracted story: editors' notes at Daily News and The Root, deletion at Daily Mail and Alternet, no change at New York Post — How the media dealt with The Intercept's retracted story on Dylann Roof's ‘cousin’ — Yesterday brought the stunning news …
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Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Sources: Amazon plans more physical stores, including retail stores that aren't bookstores, but has no immediate plans for 300-400 stores — Meet the Guy Behind Amazon's Secret Retail Store Plans — The man behind the Kindle is leading Amazon's project to create the retail stores of the future.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Justin Kan to restart his lifecasting channel, Justin.tv as a Snapchat channel — Live Streaming Pioneer Justin Kan to Relaunch Justin.tv On Snapchat — Justin.tv is about to make a comeback... as a Snapchat channel: Justin Kan, founder of the pioneering live streaming site Justin.tv …
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Justin Kan, Tubefilter, SiliconANGLE, @justinkan, Engadget, VentureBeat and The Verge
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Time Launches New Site Called ‘Motto’ for Young Women — Publisher aims to ramp up digital advertising with content focused on life, work and play — Magazine publisher Time Inc. has launched a new website called Motto aimed at younger women looking for advice about life, work and play.
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Hale Global says AOL's Patch is now profitable, with 70 full-time editors, 900+ community-specific sites, serving regional and national advertisers — Patch Rebounds After Split From AOL — ‘Hyperlocal’ media service enjoys traffic boost and profits after ‘hard reset’
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Torrents Time lets anyone launch their own web version of Popcorn Time — Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, just got a new web version: Popcorn Time Online. Unlike other attempts to bring Popcorn Time into the browser, this one is powered by a tool called Torrents Time …
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The Next Web, Mic, International Business Times, Memeburn, Tech Times, TorrentFreak, BGR and GitHub
Alex Weprin / Politico:
FiveThirtyEight launching six-part documentary series on presidential elections, starting February 4 with “Dean Scream” — ESPN's FiveThirtyEight launching a presidential documentary series — FiveThirtyEight, the ESPN-owned news site which emphasizes data over political punditry …
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
NFL refuses to buy the only known recording of Super Bowl I, yet forbids the owner from selling it — Out of a Rare Super Bowl I Recording, a Clash With the N.F.L. Unspools — MANTEO, N.C. — Troy Haupt is a 47-year-old nurse anesthetist here in North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg Business:
ESPN Teams Up With Tencent to Offer Sports Online in China — Disney sports division will provide live games, commentary — Accord includes NBA, college basketball and X Games events — Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN division will offer live games and Mandarin-language sports commentary online …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Red to launch its first original programming, three films and a series, on February 10 — YouTube Set to Premiere First Original Movies, PewDiePie Series — YouTube next week is set to launch its first exclusive programming — a test of how many customers will fork over $10 per month …
Sonia Paul / MediaShift:
Q&A with Tow Center's Vanessa Quirk on podcasts as digital journalism, mobile-first, and difficulties of creating profit — Tow Center's Vanessa Quirk: Podcasts Not All About Profit — At the end of last year, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism released its “Guide to Podcasting …
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