Mediagazer: If you think Twitter doesn't break news, you're living in a dream world (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

2:55 PM ET, March 1, 2012

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In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) — With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart. — Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. — We have lost a husband, a father, a son …

Media Decoder:

Andrew Breitbart, Conservative Blogger, Dies at 43 — Updated Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger and activist who became well-known for publishing undercover videos and revealing photographs aimed at liberals and Democrats, died Thursday morning. He was 43.

Discussion: Mediaite, Fox News, Guardian, Capital New York, Jack Shafer, Speakeasy, Broadcasting & Cable, The New Yorker Blog, Poynter, Guy Fawkes' blog, The FJP and Omnivoracious

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Conservative media colleagues Tucker Carlson, Matt Drudge, Chris Ruddy, Glenn Beck remember Breitbart

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Met arrests 32-year-old Sun reporter — Virginia Wheeler has been arrested on suspicion of making corrupt payments to public officials as part of Operation Elveden — A 32-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of making corrupt payments to public officials, by detectives from the Metropolitan police's Operation Elveden.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, Reuters, @dansabbagh, Telegraph, Guardian and Bloomberg

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Leveson inquiry preparing to call Rupert Murdoch — (Reuters) - The judicial inquiry into alleged media abuses is preparing to summon newspaper owners, including Rupert Murdoch, to give public testimony in late April or early May, according to sources close to the inquiry.

Erik Wemple:

Vanity Fair on Washington Post: Old story, new copy — Vanity Fair has completed its long-awaited big-time look at the toils of the Washington Post. Sorry, readers, no link: Vanity Fair sent the piece on the condition that the URL not be shared. — Written by Sarah Ellison, the piece is as much history as current events.

Discussion: Poynter and Techdirt

Jim Romenesko: Vanity Fair profiles Washington Post

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

G.M.A.'s Producer Will Oversee ABC News Programming — James Goldston, the television producer who has been overseeing ABC's “Good Morning America” for the past year, will now oversee all of the ABC News division's programs. — In a promotion announced on Thursday, Mr. Goldston …

Discussion: rbr.com, ABCNEWS, TVNewser and Broadcasting & Cable

Daisy Whitney / Beet.TV:

Yahoo Rolling Out Tablet Features for Connected TVs this Quarter, Grows Connected TV Base — SUNNYVALE, CA — With more than one million monthly users, Yahoo is aiming to expand the reach of its connected TVs this year and is planning several new feature rollouts in the coming months.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flipboard's Latest Brings Cover Stories To The iPad, Plus A New French Edition — Flipboard is rolling out the first major update to its social magazine tonight since its December launch on the iPhone. The new release brings the iPhone app's most popular feature, “Cover Stories,” to the iPad's bigger screen.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Inside Flipboard, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, Erick Schonfeld and CNET

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Fortune Gives Facebook the Apple Treatment — Last year, Fortune magazine was so proud of an Apple cover story that it made it hard for people to read: The magazine kept the piece off the Web and only made it available to subscribers, via the print edition and an iPad app, or to people who bought the story as an Amazon e-book.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Business Week, Noted, Fortune, Business Insider, The Next Web and Talking Biz News

Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

James O'Keefe Sues Current Media, Keith Olbermann and David Shuster for Defamation — Conservative journalist/activist James O'Keefe has often been accused of skewing the truth with his work. And now O'Keefe has charged others of doing the same to him. — O'Keefe's hit pieces …

Discussion: New York Post, Chickaboomer, Mediaite and Big Journalism

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

If you think Twitter doesn't break news, you're living in a dream world — One of the signs of how much Twitter and other social tools are disrupting media is the strenuous argument about how they aren't doing this at all — including the repeated assertion that “Twitter doesn't break news.”

Discussion: American Journalism Review

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Investor Group Again Urges Sotheby's to Remove James Murdoch From Board — James Murdoch's resignation from News International amid heightened scrutiny over his handling of the unit's newspapers in Britain could hurt his position within companies beyond News Corporation.

Discussion: Guardian and News on News