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12:55 PM 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 …
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
T-Mobile adds Amazon Video, Fox News, Univision Now, and WWE Network to Binge On, says users streaming twice as much video than before service  —  T-Mobile Says Binge On Customers Are Streaming Twice As Much Video, Adds Amazon Video Support  —  John Legere may have drawn the ire of the EFF …
Andy Malt / Complete Music Update:
Amazon launches Prime Stations personalised radio service in the UK  —  Amazon has added its Prime Stations personalised radio service for subscribers to the free-delivery-with-added-content set-up in the UK.  It expands on the Prime Music on-demand streaming service, which has also just had a new lyrics feature added to it as well.
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
Discussion: Washington Post
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Lord Puttnam and Channel 4 launch MBA for media executives  —  Two-year course aimed at bosses in the creative industries aims at developing leaders for the digital era  —  In the week it emerged the creative industries contributed £84.1bn to the UK economy, Oscar-winning film producer Lord Puttnam …
Discussion: @dputtnam, Gamasutra and The Drum
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.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
How newspaper reporters in Washington DC, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Des Moines are experimenting with podcasts  —  All the news that's fit to podcast: Newspapers try out audio  —  The podcasting fervor of 2015 has continued into 2016 and shows no signs of diminishing.
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?
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
‘Pushed out’ Panorama reporter Raphael Rowe's farewell email: Diversity at BBC is 'worse than I've ever known'  —  Former Panorama reporter Raphael Rowe told colleagues he felt diversity at the BBC is “worse than I've ever known” on his last day at the corporation.
Discussion: Press Gazette
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 …
Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:
Hulu will be the ‘exclusive streaming home’ of all future IFC Films documentaries  —  Hulu will soon start ramping up its collection of documentary films.  The streaming service announced today it closed a deal with IFC Films to become the “exclusive streaming home” for all future documentary releases …
 
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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
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
More than half of BBC staff do not think bullying cases will be tackled fairly
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Rose Henderson / Bloomberg:
Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian agencies warn that Chinese hackers are using Brickstorm malware to penetrate and maintain backdoor access to unnamed government and IT entities

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The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges

 
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