Mediagazer: Bieber Protest Hoax Fools Fox News, CNN (Merrill Knox/TVNewser)

12:50 PM ET, February 25, 2014

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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:

Owner of Twitter parody account @GSElevator is John Lefevre, a former bond executive who has never worked at Goldman Sachs — @GSElevator Tattletale Exposed (He Was Not in the Goldman Elevator) — A three-year parlor game has been taking place on Wall Street to identify …

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Two years ago the New York Times erroneously reported that John Lefevre worked at Goldman — The Goldman Sachs Elevator Stalker is Revealed — as a Fibber — It's safe to talk on the elevator again at Goldman Sachs. The author of a snarky Twitter feed — @gselevator …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Bloomberg View relaunches on its own — Bloomberg View is getting a makeover. — The online opinion play, which was created by Bloomberg L.P. in 2011 as a complement to the company's news products, is set to relaunch at 9:30 a.m. with a slick, mobile-friendly layout and its own URL, bloombergview.com.

Discussion: @annecronin

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

AT&T, Verizon may join Comcast in Netflix streaming deal — AT&T and Verizon Communications may be the next big Internet service providers to strike a deal with Netflix to provide a direct connection from the video service to broadband customers. — On Monday, a day after Netflix announced …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Why Netflix Is Actually the Big Winner in the Comcast Bandwidth Deal

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Tim Baysinger / Broadcasting & Cable:

Meyers' ‘Late Night’ Debut Tops Fallon — ‘Tonight Show’ dips but still up over season average — Seth Meyers' debut Monday as host of Late Night drew a 2.6 overnight rating in metered-markets, according to Nielsen. That was up 13% from what Jimmy Fallon drew in his Late Night debut in March 2009.

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Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times:
Seth Meyers' ‘Late Night’ debut an understated affair

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Richard Just, New National Journal Editor, Plans To ‘Reinvent’ Magazine — NEW YORK — Richard Just, the former top editor of The New Republic and Newsweek, has been named editor of National Journal. Just will oversee the print magazine and report to Editor-in-Chief Tim Grieve.

Discussion: Poynter, NationalJournal.com and FishbowlDC

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The return of Newsweek — On March 7, one year and two months from the publication of what was to be its final print issue, copies of Newsweek will once again hit newsstands. There will just be a lot fewer of them—several hundred thousand in the U.S. and abroad.

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Nicole Levy / Capital New York:

The Wire adds two writers, plans to double staff — Atlantic Media's The Wire will add two new members to its staff next month, general manager Andrew Golis announced in a memo today. — Tim Carmody, who has written for websites like The Verge and Wired.com, will join as a contributing editor on the technology beat.

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Washington Post's Tim Lee defects to Ezra Klein's ‘Project X’ — Washington Post loses another to Ezra, builds overnight team — Yet another Washington Post staffer has defected to Ezra Klein's new Vox Media project: Tim Lee, who briefly served on Klein's Wonkblog before launching …

Discussion: @mlcalderone and @jeffjohnroberts

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Josh Barro to join The New York Times — Josh Barro, the outgoing Business Insider political editor, is joining The New York Times to take part in David Leonhardt's new policy venture, sources familiar with his plans told POLITICO on Monday. — Barro, a former Bloomberg View blogger …

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Merrill Knox / TVNewser:

Bieber Protest Hoax Fools Fox News, CNN — CNN and Fox News were among the many media outlets that covered a fake protest over Justin Bieber's potential move to Atlanta yesterday. The prank was organized by a local radio station that sent six of its interns to act as “protestors.”

Discussion: Variety, TVSpy and CNN

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Disney Goes Where No Other Studio Has Gone: An iTunes Movie Storage Deal — When Disney unveils its new cloud-based movie service Tuesday, it will be able to boast about a partner that has eluded all of its peers - Apple. Disney Movies Anywhere will enable users to stream or download Disney movies …

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Bob Garfield / Guardian:

If native advertising is so harmless, why does it rely on misleading readers? — It's hard to read the latest gimmick for infusing a dying industry with cash as anything other than journalism selling its soul — The devil walks into a bar and sits at a table with eight newspaper …