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9:15 AM ET, February 24, 2014

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David Carr / New York Times:
Piers Morgan and CNN Plan End to His Prime-Time Show  —  There have been times when the CNN host Piers Morgan didn't seem to like America very much — and American audiences have been more than willing to return the favor.  Three years after taking over for Larry King, Mr. Morgan has seen the ratings for …
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
After CNN Cancels Morgan, Larry King Says: I Could Come Back  —  Larry King and former CNN President Jonathan Klein speak exclusively to The Daily Beast about the cancellation of Piers Morgan's prime-time show.  —  Several months ago, backstage at a concert in Central Park …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Former Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Middelhoff to leave New York Times Co. board  —  Times Co. Board Member Is Stepping Down  —  The German business executive Thomas Middelhoff, a director of The New York Times Company since 2003, is leaving the company's board.
Discussion: New York Times Co.
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
In a First for Spain, a Woman Is Convicted of Inciting Terror Over Twitter  —  MADRID — The line between youthful rebelliousness and something more dangerous is not always clear.  But in her angry musings on Twitter, Alba González Camacho, 21, who describes herself as a “very normal girl,” sailed across it.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Head of digital out at Dow Jones amid course correction  —  Dow Jones & Company has removed its head of digital, Michael Rolnick, amid a strategy shakeup that has been unfolding over the past month, Capital has learned.  —  The move comes as Will Lewis, who replaced Lex Fenwick as chief executive …
Discussion: @capitalnewyork
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Seeking a Lead on News, Network Turns to Data-Mining Media Group  —  When Ronan Farrow, the young human rights lawyer with a Hollywood lineage, debuts as an MSNBC host on Monday, he will have some prodigious computing power backing him up.  —  MSNBC has struck a partnership with Vocativ …
Discussion: @petereavis
David Bauder / Associated Press:
NBC's Sochi Winter Olympics Coverage Looks For Gold  —  NBC Universal's Sochi performance is partly measured in gold, too.  Televising the Olympics is a complex, multi-million dollar business venture that seems to have more riding on it every two years.  Beyond attracting millions of people …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:   A different Olympics on TVs across the world
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Aereo will launch its internet TV service in Austin next week as Supreme Court date looms  —  Aereo, the start-up that streams over-the-air TV channels to computers and smartphones for $8 a month, is expanding to a new city even as it gets set for a closely-watched Supreme Court hearing …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The world's shortest cooking show is evidence that you can do interesting work in 15 seconds on Instagram  —  Whenever a new form of online media comes along, it's pilloried in some corners as insufficient for real content.  Think blogs in 2002 ("It's just guys eating Cheetos in their mothers' basements! …
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Amazon, Warner Ink Five-Series Streaming Deal in U.K.  —  LONDON — Amazon and Warner Bros. Intl.  Television Distribution have inked a deal to bring five TV series to Amazon Prime Instant Video, the U.K. subscription VOD service formerly known as Lovefilm.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Moviefone Is Hanging Up, but Its App Will Go On  —  LOS ANGELES — Mr. Moviefone's lines are going dead.  —  For 25 years, residents of America's biggest cities have been able to call 777-FILM to receive movie listing information and buy tickets.  The service's goofily booming greeting became …
Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong  —  On Sunday, Comcast and Netflix announced a commercial interconnect relationship between the two companies, which is in the very early stages of implementation, and as a result, many who clearly don't understand how the Internet works are writing about the news.
Rafael Casal / Upworthy:
CORRECTION: That Time We Let Pretend Science Ruin Real Science And Decided To Apologize For It  —  FROM THE EDITORS: Hey everyone.  So a video made it onto our site that put Chicken McNuggets under a microscope.  It had some problems (there's a link at the bottom of the page if you REALLY need to see it.)
 
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Natalie Burg / The Content Strategist:
Top Journalists Are Flocking to Brands. Here's Why.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Netflix's original series: It's beating HBO without being better than HBO.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
While unbundling is the buzz, media companies team up to offer newer, smarter rebundling
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Cathy Loughran / BBC College of Journalism:
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CNN:
Venezuela says CNN can stay, a day after saying ‘get out’
 

 
From Techmeme:

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live

Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure

Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted
 
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