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8:00 PM ET, February 10, 2016

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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Twitter Will Now Put Recommended (Not Newest) Tweets At the Top Of Your Timeline  —  If Twitter is going to fix its growth problem, it's going to have to make some drastic moves — and, with an update today, that means even changing the timeline.  —  Twitter today is unveiling a new Twitter timeline …
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TechCrunch:
Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, quarterly revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, meeting expectations  —  Twitter's User Growth Goes Nowhere As It Meets Revenue Expectations Of $710M  —  Twitter today reported its fourth-quarter earnings — one of the most important quarters …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs  —  HBO NOW, The Network's Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000 Subscribers  —  HBO NOW may have scored as one of last year's top streaming apps in terms of revenue …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Time Warner Q4: misses estimates with revenue down 6% YoY to $7.1B; HBO revenue up 6% to $1.4B; Warner Bros. down 13% to $3.3B  —  Time Warner Reports Mixed Quarterly Results Due to Movie Flops  —  Box office bombs like “Pan” and “In the Heart of the Sea” weighed down Time Warner's fiscal fourth quarter …
Associated Press:
Journalist kidnapped in southern Mexico found dead  —  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A reporter who was kidnapped by armed assailants in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz this week has been found dead, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.  —  Anabel Flores Salazar's body was discovered on a highway …
Áine Kerr / Storyful Blog:
Storyful Managing Editor Aine Kerr to become Facebook's manager of journalism partnerships  —  Storyful's Managing Editor on Moving on to the Next Challenge  —  Nothing can prepare you for the psychological torment and raw adrenaline that comes with joining a scrappy startup.
Discussion: Storyful Blog, Reuters and @jimbrady
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Facebook debuts auto-captioning for video ads, says having captions can increase video view time by 12%  —  Facebook wants advertisers to get a lot better at silent video  —  People are now watching 100 million hours of video on Facebook every day — but many of those users …
Mike McPhate / New York Times:
Newspaper adviser fired at Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland after controversial article  —  Newspaper Adviser Is Fired After Students' Scoop Roils Maryland Campus  —  When student reporters at Mount St. Mary's University, a small Catholic institution in Maryland …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge lets actor James Woods proceed with suit against anonymous Twitter user who called him a cocaine addict  —  James Woods Gets Judge's Nod to Pursue Man Who Tweeted He Was a “Cocaine Addict”  —  The judge makes a stunning reversal, denying the anonymous defendant's attempt to kill the lawsuit.
Discussion: @realjameswoods
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
BBC and Kenyan startup Ongair create BBC Drop, a personalized news app for Africa, Android only for now  —  The BBC pilots a mobile-friendly website with content tailored to young African audiences  —  Swipe to skip, swipe to like, swipe to share: these are the familiar smartphone motions …
Discussion: Disrupt Africa
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
First Look Media Keeps Building, Adds Comics Site The Nib to Stable of Web Properties  —  First Look Media, the digital media company funded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, has been slowly adding properties and growing its business since launching in 2013.
Telegraph:
Lebedevs locked in talks with Johnston Press to sell i newspaper for £24m  —  Future of the Independent, Independent on Sunday and digital assets remains unclear  —  Johnston Press is in advanced talks with the Lebedev family to buy the i newspaper in a deal that will raise questions …
Discussion: Guardian and Financial Times
 
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Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
McClatchy Q4: revenue down 7.8% YoY to $292.8M excluding one-time items, advertising revenue down 11.7% YoY
Guardian:
Telegraph Media Group enlists Deloitte for strategic review
Press Gazette:
UK media groups lose court appeal to lift reporting restrictions on terrorism trial
Discussion: Telegraph, BBC and Guardian
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
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