Mediagazer: Council Members Ask Village Voice To End Relationship With Sex Trafficking Site (Hunter Walker/Politicker)

7:20 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 …

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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.

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Conservative media colleagues Tucker Carlson, Matt Drudge, Chris Ruddy, Glenn Beck remember Breitbart — The conservative media lost one of its most prominent and influential torchbearers when Andrew Breitbart, the pugnacious and polarizing figure credited with helping to usher right-wing journalism …

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Reuters:

Leveson Inquiry Preparing To Call Rupert Murdoch — LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - The judicial inquiry into alleged media abuses is preparing to summon British newspaper owners, including Rupert Murdoch, to give public testimony in late April or early May, according to sources close to the inquiry.

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Yates wined and dined with NoW staff

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Met arrests 32-year-old Sun reporter

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Injured French Journalist Escapes Syria — French journalist Edith Bouvier suffered serious leg injuries — The journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels have left Syria and are now safely in Lebanon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said. — The pair, who were both working …

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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‘ESPN The Magazine’ Goes to All-Themed Format — In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, it's tough for a news magazine to stay current, and no less so in sports. Just ask Sports Illustrated. So ESPN The Magazine—which only has 24 issues a year to work with—is taking a less time-sensitive approach …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Can News.me become the Instagram for news? — We've written before about the overwhelming tsunami of content that digital media represents, especially the firehose that comes from Twitter and Facebook, and how this makes it even more imperative that users have some kind of filter or curation system.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘New York Post’ loses its web editor, who goes to work for a former ‘Post’ editor — The New York Post has lost a high-ranking editor to one of its former high-ranking editors. — Erle Norton, the editor of the newspaper's website, has resigned after four-and-a-half years at the helm of nypost.com, Capital has learned.

Hunter Walker / Politicker:

Council Members Ask Village Voice To End Relationship With Sex Trafficking Site — Councilman Brad Lander and Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito introduced a resolution today asking Village Voice Media to shut down the controversial “adult” section of its classified ad site Backpage.com.

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Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Kim DotCom: Why didn't MPAA sue me? — The MegaUpload founder says his attorneys told him his service was legal. In 7 years, he never got so much as a cease-and-desist letter from any major copyright owner. — MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom from his interview with New Zealand's 3 News.com.