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1:25 PM ET, March 1, 2012

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Larry Solov / Big Journalism:
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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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.
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.
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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 The New York Observer
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Jim Romenesko:
Vanity Fair profiles Washington Post
Discussion: Poynter
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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
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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp shareholders step up bid to oust James Murdoch
Discussion: Telegraph, BBC and Wall Street Journal
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Review: Readability finally gets a gorgeous app on iOS, but was it worth the wait?  —  Richard Ziade, founding partner of Readability, is forthright with me about the wait for an official iOS app.  “It did take a really long time.”  —  In fact, the official app of the reading platform took …
 
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
From Salinas to Burlington: Can an army of paywalls big and small buoy Gannett?
Discussion: CJR
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Geordie Greig to edit Mail on Sunday
Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
A.J. Daulerio Tells Us About The New State Of Gawker
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
BBC World Service Opens Newsroom to Public in Live Broadcast
Discussion: WebProNews
Josh Stearns / Save the News:
Public Television: We're #1!  —  For the ninth year in a row …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
If you think Twitter doesn't break news, you're living in a dream world
Husna Haq / Christian Science Monitor:
E-book readers are buying plenty - but not in bookstores
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
With Starz exiting, Netflix loses access to live TV
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Spotify: Staggering music releases (like movies) won't work
Discussion: TeleRead and Betabeat
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Bloomberg's Abelson on How Wall Street Is Coping
Steven Church / Bloomberg:
Tribune Paid Bankruptcy Advisers $233.3 Million Since Filing in 2008
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT guild members have ‘quiet’ protest outside Page One meeting
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
‘Businessweek’ Unwraps New Website
Eleanor Beardsley / NPR:
For Leap Day Only, A Rare Newspaper Goes To Print
Discussion: The Huffington Post