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Top 5 January 27, 2011

  1. Cable news loses State of the Union
    Twitter was go-to place for #SOTU commentary
  2. Amazon backs long-form journalism
    Begins selling 5,000- to 30,000-word Kindle Singles
  3. Mobile apps: $15B in 2011
    Market will nearly triple in size
  4. Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked
    Coincidence? Facebook offers encrypted log-ins
  5. WikiLeaks to meet with press, public
    Plus, Localeaks launches for small papers
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