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9:25 AM ET, February 20, 2014

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Herald Scotland:
Rebekah Brooks acquitted of one charge of misconduct in phone hacking trial  —  Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks has been formally found not guilty of one charge of misconduct in a public office but she remains on trial for four further counts.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: NoW spent up to £250,000 on Divine Brown story  —  Phone-hacking trial hears of measures paper took to stop rivals securing Hugh Grant scoop when Brooks was features editor  —  The News of the World spent up to £250,000 flying Divine Brown and her family to the middle …
Discussion: ITV
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks not on trial for having worked for Rupert Murdoch, court told  —  Ex-News International chief's lawyer opens defence at phone-hacking trial, telling jury not to judge her for her career or views  —  Rebekah Brooks is not on trial because she was a tabloid editor or worked for Rupert Murdoch …
Discussion: Deadline.com and New York Times
Ahram Online:
Trial of Al Jazeera journalists adjourned until 5 March  —  Journalists are standing trial for joining a terrorist group and airing false news - charges labeled ‘absurd, baseless and false’ by the Qatari channel  —  The trial of 20 journalists working for Al Jazeera, including four foreigners, has been adjourned until 5 March.
Discussion: Reuters
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Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
Trial of Al Jazeera reporters begins in Egypt as Human Rights Watch group denounces charges
ABC:
Peter Greste profile: Career of a foreign correspondent
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi joins Omidyar's First Look Media to cover financial and political corruption  —  Start-Up Site Hires Critic of Wall St.  —  Matt Taibbi, who made a name as a fierce critic of Wall Street at Rolling Stone magazine, has joined First Look Media …
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Utah Federal Judge Halts Aereo in Salt Lake City and Denver  —  A federal judge in Utah has imposed a preliminary injunction on Aereo's operations, a win for broadcasters as they seek to halt the startup streaming service in Salt Lake City and Denver.  —  “Based on the plain language …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
POLITICO taps Hotline EIC for Campaign Pro  —  POLITICO has hired National Journal Hotline editor-in-chief Steve Shepard to help launch the latest venture in its growing subscription-service empire: Campaign Pro, “a vertical aimed at political, PAC and campaign professionals.”
Andrew Lapin / Current.org:
ProPublica receives $1M grant from MacArthur Foundation  —  ProPublica will receive a $1 million Award for Creative and Effective Institutions from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the funder announced Thursday.  The nonprofit is the only news organization among the seven recipients selected.
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
LinkedIn's competitive advantage over other publishers: $1.5B in annual revenues  —  LinkedIn has the one thing other publishing platforms would kill for  —  We've been writing a lot lately about the increasingly blurry lines between platform and publisher, a world in which new-media entities …
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
China's Tencent signs deal for access to exclusive Business Insider content  —  Business Insider Just Launched An Awesome New China Partnership With Tencent — Here's The Google-Translate Version  —  Business Insider just launched a cool new content partnership with China Internet behemoth Tencent.
Discussion: @hblodget and Tech in Asia
Michelle Arrouas / TIME:
Veteran Canadian Journalist Missing In Cambodia  —  Dave Walker was working on a film about Khmer Rouge war criminals at the time  —  Cambodian police are searching for a veteran Canadian journalist who has been missing since late last week, Canadian officials say.
Bloomberg:
Slim Said to Plan Bigger New York Times Stake by Year-End  —  Billionaire Carlos Slim plans to exercise warrants by the end of the year that will more than double his stake in the New York Times Co. to as much as 19 percent, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Author James Patterson sets up $1M fund to help independent bookstores innovate  —  James Patterson Giving Cash to Bookstores  —  Independent bookstores, with their paper-thin profit margins and competition from Amazon, have found themselves a Daddy Warbucks.
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
The Guardian to launch Melbourne office and ramp up staff to more than 50  —  The Guardian is to open a Melbourne office and launch a new hiring spree, with its overall Australian staff to grow to more than 50 in the coming weeks, Mumbrella can reveal.  —  The opening of the Melbourne office …
Discussion: GNM press office
Fred Vultee / ACES:
Vice should hire a copy editor and A/B test the value of copy editing for readers  —  More advice for Vice: Why hiring copy editors is a really good idea  —  Everybody has some advice for Vice Media in its quest to hire a freelance copy editor, from the folks at Gawker who noticed …
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Jake Mitchell / Sydney Morning Herald:
Fairfax posts jump in profit  —  Fairfax Media has reported 48.5 per cent growth in underlying profit to $86.4 million for the half year ended December 31, with the print, digital and radio businesses focusing on cutting costs and targeting new revenue streams.
Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
FCC plans to issue new net neutrality rules.  —  The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it will craft new rules to prevent Internet service providers from charging companies like Netflix or Google a toll to reach consumers at the highest speeds.
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Jonathan Marino / The Deal Pipeline:
Fosun closes in on deal for Forbes; price short of $250M  —  When money management magazine and website Forbes Media LLC is sold, likely to Fosun International Ltd., the Chinese conglomerate that has taken the front-runner position in the company's auction, sources said …
Discussion: @joshsternberg, @hofrench and @jackshafer, Thanks:@jonmarino
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Are quizzes the new lists?  What BuzzFeed's latest viral success means for publishing  —  Lately, it seems like the hardest content format to avoid on the social web is the BuzzFeed quiz.  —  What city should I actually live in?  Paris.  How will I die?  Eaten by piranhas.  Should I learn to code?
Discussion: @sebchan and @heiditworek
 
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Kathleen Bartzen Culver / Mediashift:
Taking Action: EdShift Launches to Move Journalism Education Forward
Discussion: Poynter and @knightfdn
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
CNN Reporter: Venezuelan Cops Confiscated Our Equipment at Gunpoint
Tamara Baluja / J-Source:
Rogers moves to group publisher structure
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
How Vizzuality wants to bring mapping to the masses
Jesse Hicks / The Verge:
How Wikipedia's robots and cyborgs snuff out vandalism
Discussion: @simbul
Christoph Koettl / Mediashift:
‘The YouTube War’: Citizen Videos Revolutionize Human Rights Monitoring in Syria
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New York Times:
Afghan Ethnic Tensions Rise in Media and Politics
Knowledge@Wharton:
Will Comcast's Merger with Time Warner Give It Too Much Power?
Discussion: @ceciliakang
Alan D. Mutter / Editor and Publisher:
Newsosaur: Big Data Zeros in on Ad Inefficiency
International Forum for Responsible Media:
Hacked Off: How the Telegraph, Mail and Times have helped reduce press freedom in the UK - Evan Harris