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11:05 AM ET, March 3, 2014

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: NI's ‘rogue reporter’ defence shaky after 2009 revelations  —  Former News International chief tells phone-hacking trial that company's corporate line came from NoW editor Colin Myler  —  Rebekah Brooks knew that News International's position in 2009 that phone hacking …
Discussion: ITV News
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NI paid phone hacker's legal fees to stop him ‘naming names’, court hears  —  Rebekah Brooks says News International believed Glenn Mulcaire ‘could say anyone or anything’ in Max Clifford civil case  —  News International agreed to pay phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire's legal fees to stop …
Discussion: Press Gazette and @lisaocarroll
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Guardian corrects: Bradley Manning didn't take Ellen's Oscar selfie  —  Ellen DeGeneres' “Oscar selfie” is now the most retweeted photo ever.  But that bit of history wasn't apparently enough for The Guardian, which appended this somewhat amazing correction: to some of its Academy Awards coverage:
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Washington Post opens tech outpost in New York  —  The Washington Post is expanding its New York footprint with the creation of a Manhattan-based design and development office.  —  The new satellite hub, called WPNYC, will result in more than a dozen new hires including designers, strategists and information architects.
Liz Shannon Miller / Gigaom:
DVD screener leaks decline as distributors crack down on leakers, test digital options  —  Looking for Oscars torrents?  This is why you may end up empty-handed  —  If Ellen DeGeneres mentions the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty on Sunday night, it might be with a wince …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Vice CEO: Woodward and Bernstein used to be punks, too  —  I have not yet seen Vice News, the media conglomerate's expanded news operation, in all its glory.  Shane Smith, the company's CEO, is trying to get me an invitation.  “Our beta's oversubscribed,” he said by phone from Brooklyn.
Discussion: Guardian
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Piers Morgan Plans to Remain at CNN for ‘Big Name’ Interviews  —  Showbiz 411′s Roger Friedman reported Sunday that Piers Morgan plans to stick around CNN doing high-level interviews.  —  “I'll make a deal to do twenty or twenty-five shows a year, all interviews with big names,” Morgan said.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC's Live Oscar Internet Stream Suffers Nationwide Outage  —  Unexpected demand for ABC's live stream of the Oscars telecast over the Internet resulted in the video going down for users across the U.S., the network said Sunday.  —  The live video, available only to certain pay-TV customers through …
David Carr / New York Times:
Foreign Buyers Eyeing Forbes Magazine, a Chronicler of the World's Wealthiest  —  Growing up in the Midwest, my idea of rich was my dentist, who lived a few blocks away and had a split-level that was bigger than the rest of ours and a Cadillac in the driveway.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Mashable Raises More Money, This Time from Tribune  —  Earlier this year Mashable, the tech news Web site with plans to become much bigger than a tech news Web site, announced it had taken on outside investment money for the first time.  Now it has taken on some more.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and TechCrunch
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
Supreme Court Rejects FilmOn X's Request to Join Aereo Case  —  The Supreme Court rejected FilmOn X's request Monday to formally intervene in the fight over web transmission issues between Aereo TV and major broadcasters, which the court is set to hear April 22.
Discussion: Reuters
Al Jazeera English:
Egypt police get 10 years for killing blogger  —  Two police officers found guilty of killing that was one of the incidents that provoked uprising against Hosni Mubarak.  —  Two policemen have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for killing an Egyptian blogger more than three years after the incident …
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
On the meaning of journalistic independence  —  This morning, I see that some people are quite abuzz about a new Pando article “revealing” that the foundation of Pierre Omidyar, the publisher of First Look Media which publishes The Intercept, gave several hundred thousand dollars to a Ukraininan …
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