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Martin Evans / Telegraph:
Tony Blair offered to be unofficial adviser to Brooks and Murdoch over phone hacking scandal, court hears — In an hour-long phone conversation with Mrs Brooks the day after the News of the World was closed in July 2011, the former Prime Minister advised her to “tough up” telling her “it will pass”
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John Rentoul / The Independent:
Blair responds to Brooks email — Statement by a spokesperson for Tony Blair: — “This was Mr Blair simply giving informal advice over the phone. He made it absolutely clear to Ms Brooks that, though he knew nothing personally about the facts of the case, in a situation as serious …
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@johnrentoul and @dangillmor
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking jury is told of Rebekah Brooks' plan to stay with News Corp prior to resignation — Rebekah Brooks discussed plan to ‘ring fence’ her from phone-hacking scandal — Old Bailey hears of email sent a week before she resigned outlining plan for review by lawyers and promotion of Will Lewis
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What to do when your video is winning social media, but it's a copy that's getting the clicks? — What should a news organization do when an unauthorized copy of video they produced is going viral on YouTube? — That's the question Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA faced when a commentary …
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@standupkid, The Texas Tribune Fellowships and Upworthy
Costas Pitas / Reuters:
British court quashes legal challenge by partner of Snowden leaks reporter — (Reuters) - Britain's High Court has quashed a legal challenge against the detention under anti-terrorism laws of the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who brought leaks from former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to world attention.
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
On the UK's Equating of Journalism With Terrorism
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@freedomofpress, Firedoglake, @trevortimm, thedrum.com, @attackerman and @laughingstoic
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
HLN's Surprising New Slate: Game Shows, Viral Videos and a #FOMO App (Exclusive) — From left: Fred Seibert, Rob Barnett and Tom Lynch — The cable news network that is home to Nancy Grace undertakes a major rebrand. — A version of this story first appeared in the Feb. 28 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
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Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Opens Its Publishing Platform To All Members — To date, LinkedIn has allowed a small, editorially selected group of “Influencers” like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Barack Obama to publish their thoughts and advice to its network as long-form blog posts.
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blog.linkedin.com, Gigaom, NYT Bits, @sap_jarret, @danroth, Mashable, The Next Web and mUmBRELLA
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Journalists seeking accreditation for Brit Awards asked to agree coverage of sponsor Mastercard — The organisers of tonight's Brit Awards for pop music appear to be asking journalists to guarantee coverage of sponsor MasterCard as the price of attending. — Before providing journalists …
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The Independent, Guardian, @kevinmitchell50, @arunsudhaman, @pressgazette, @davidefraser, thedrum.com and The Drum
Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:
White House says it backs FCC in efforts to protect network neutrality — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) — Since President Obama took office in 2009, the Federal Communications Commission has been struggling to decide what to do about network neutrality.
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White House.gov Blog, Broadcasting & Cable, NYT Bits, TheHill, PC World, CNET and Re/code
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Gautham Nagesh / Law Blog:
FCC Plans to Issue New Net Neutrality Rules
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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
AP brings Olympics coverage to local news outlets with customizable, white-label microsites — If you've seen an Winter Olympics medal count on your local newspapers' homepage, there's a good chance it was built by the Associated Press Digital News Experience program team.
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@ap_corpcomm
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Some people want a lot more Winter Olympics; some people want no Winter Olympics at all
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Latest News & Headlines, Forbes and The Whip
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Vice Goes Into Food Business With ‘American Idol’ Producer FremantleMedia — Site to Debut in Early April and Air Videos Online, on TV — In early April Vice will debut a yet-unnamed food vertical with “American Idol” producer FremantleMedia. The brash digital-media company also has a food-related ad network on its menu.
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The Wrap, Digital Spy, @adamclarkestes, broadcastnow.co.uk, thedrum.com, Digiday and Variety
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Warner in Deal to Sign Acts Found on Shazam — In the good old days of digital music — say, five or six years ago — high-tech talent scouting by record labels meant trawling MySpace for hot new bands. Labels still hunt for acts online, but the pools of data they consult have become much more vast …
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AllAccess.com, hypebot, Mobile Entertainment Feed, @sisario, BroadwayWorld.com, Music Week, @wiesenthal and The Next Web
Sara Morrison / Poynter:
Media is ‘failing women’ — sports journalism particularly so — The Women's Media Center released its third annual Status of Women in the U.S. Media report today, and if you've been paying any attention to gender imbalances across print, broadcast and online platforms, it's more of the same.
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The Huffington Post
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste and fellow journalists to finally appear in Egyptian court — The three al-Jazeera staffers, who have been held for 46 days, are locked in a cell next to the country's former prime minister — Three al-Jazeera English journalists seized last December from their Cairo hotel rooms …
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@lindblomkarin and @con_agius
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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Whisper publicizes and claims it vetted a new Gwyneth Paltrow affair rumor shared by a user — Whisper, The Sequoia-Backed Secret Sharing App, Makes A Move Into TMZ Territory — Whisper, the popular anonymous social sharing startup that's raised $24 million from venture capital giants …
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FishbowlNY, @neetzan, @whisperapp, Defamer, @ryanlawler, @neetzan, @neetzan, @fmanjoo, Brian Solis, Business Insider, Betabeat, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and Vanity Fair
Jim Romenesko:
U.S. News deletes archived web content published before 2007 — A Romenesko reader recently noticed that U.S. News wiped out a good chunk of its archives. He writes: “The way that I stumbled upon this is that I am constantly going back into archives of various publications while doing research.
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Real Lawyers Have Blogs, @mtdukes, @dancow, @beschizza, @clare_oc, @notjessewalker and @felixsalmon
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Scripps looking to sell CityEats after partnerships with cable channels fail to catch on — Exclusive: OpenTable Competitor CityEats Is For Sale — No appetite for the service among consumers. — Via cityeats.com — CityEats, the online reservation service launched in 2011 …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
NBC Universal, FX Chiefs Call for Increased Anti-Piracy Measures — John Landgraf: Voluntary self-policing better route than legal battles — Internet gatekeepers like Google may have made strides to combat content piracy, but there's room for improvement.
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Fuji TV to Stream Shows Online — TOKYO — Fuji TV will become the first Japanese network to offer its shows on the Internet simultaneously with its regular broadcast 24 hours a day. — On March 14 Fuji will launch Fuji TV NEXT Smart, a service that streams programs from the Fuji TV NEXT …
Derrik J. Lang / Associated Press:
Q&A: A documentarian working in virtual reality — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forget 3-D glasses. Oscar-nominated documentarian Danfung Dennis believes the next evolution in filmmaking will be to surround viewers with images in 360 degrees — directly on their noggins.
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Re/code and Fast Company
Motherboard:
Ukraine's Newest Media Company Is Ensuring the Revolution Will Be Televised — Just behind the wall of flame, a teenager raised a smartphone to the air. Beside him, a man hurled a leg of a chair into the blaze. Hundreds of people ducked in and around, covering their heads, yelling, feeding the fire.
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