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10:10 PM ET, February 8, 2016

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Users streamed 315M minutes of the Super Bowl from CBS and NFL, an average of 1.4M people per minute, up from from 213 minutes, 800K/min in 2015  —  More People Streamed the Super Bowl Than Ever Before.  Here Are the Numbers:  —  Late last night, CBS announced it had streamed the Super Bowl to a …
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Super Bowl ads generated 476M views online to date, 62.4M on game day alone
Lucy Kellaway / Financial Times:
FT columnist Lucy Kellaway responds to Hewlett Packard marketing chief Henry Gomez after he made veiled threat in response to critical opinion piece  —  An old-school reply to an advertiser's retro threat  —  Meg Whitman's lieutenant was ‘disappointed’ with what I'd written.  Here is my considered response
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John Harrington / PRWeek:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise releases letter sent to FT journalist to dispute ‘ad threat’ claim  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise has strongly disputed claims by an FT columnist that the software firm's comms chief Henry Gomez wrote a ‘threatening’ and ‘aggressive’ letter to her with suggestions …
Bloomberg Business:
NFL in talks about selling streaming rights to “Thursday Night Football”  —  Yahoo, Verizon, AT&T Want NFL Thursday Streaming Rights  —  National Football League has targeted tech, telecom partners  —  Traditional broadcasters uninterested in paying extra
Discussion: Re/code and @lucas_shaw
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
En Español: The New York Times launches a Spanish-language news site aiming south of the border  —  The Iowa caucuses are confusing.  Every four years, Americans receive a crash course in the quirky midwestern custom that kicks off the presidential nominating cycle …
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC3 boss on going online only: 'We are reinventing the BBC's offer to youth'  —  Controller Damian Kavanagh on taking his station online, nurturing talent, and how he's winning over critics  —  n 16 February BBC3 will go online only, causing, according to critics such as producers Jimmy Mulville …
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Profile of the FCC's general counsel Jonathan Sallet, helping to create and defend rules shaping TV and the Internet  —  Net Neutrality Again Puts F.C.C. General Counsel at Center Stage  —  WASHINGTON — Every day for one month last fall, Jonathan Sallet, the general counsel …
Re/code:
Sources: Twitter could name two new board members this week  —  Twitter Aims to Name Two New Board Members This Week.  (We'll See!)  —  According to multiple sources, Twitter is aiming to name two new board members to replace a pair of outgoing ones at the same time it announces its fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow.
Discussion: Fortune and @fmanjoo
Andrew Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
Freelancers are becoming increasingly reliant on NGOs and charities to report from conflict and natural disaster zones  —  The thorny ethics of embedding with do-gooders  —  In August 2014, eight months into South Sudan's still-raging conflict, some aid worker friends started telling me to get to Bentiu.
Discussion: @cjr and @jpacedc
 
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Al Jazeera America to stop updating website Feb. 26, TV operations continue until April 12
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Vice UK staff move to unionise to ‘share in the success’ of media company
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Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
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