Mediagazer: Masked Gunmen Seize Crimean Investigative Journalism Center (David Kaplan/Global Investigative …)

4:55 PM ET, March 3, 2014

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David Kaplan / Global Investigative Journalism Network:

Masked Gunmen Seize Crimean Investigative Journalism Center — As Russian troops streamed into Crimea, Ukraine, yesterday, masked gunmen broke into and seized the office of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism in the region's capital, Simferopol.

Discussion: Poynter, Kirk LaPointe's …, @timkarr, @aidanpwhite and The Huffington Post

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Russia Wages Media War Alongside Crimea Invasion — NEW YORK — One of the first casualties in the Russian invasion of Crimea was independent television. — Black Sea TV, the peninsula's only independent channel, was shut down on Monday. The head editor, Oleksandra Kvitko …

Discussion: Latest News & Headlines, Politico, The Daily Beast and Hit & Run

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.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @joepompeo, @thefix, @jamesrbuk, @abeaujon, @lheron, @jayrosen_nyu, @zseward, @jenny8lee, @raju and FishbowlDC

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:

Jim Romenesko:

Cheryl Gould leaves NBC News after 37 years — Cheryl Gould was the first female executive producer of “NBC Nightly News,” and helped create “NBC Overnight with Linda Ellerbee. Her time at NBC - nearly 37 years - “has taken her all over the globe and country,” NBC News president Deborah Turness writes in a memo.

Discussion: TVNewser, The Huffington Post, @antderosa, FishbowlNY, @vivian and @romenesko

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 and BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Guardian:
NI paid phone hacker's legal fees to stop him ‘naming names’, court hears

Discussion: @lisaocarroll

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.

Discussion: Showbiz411, TVNewser, The Inquisitr News, TheBlaze.com, Forbes and FTVLive

Dylan Byers / Politico: Sources say Piers Morgan still in negotiations with CNN; his staff staying on with the network

Erik Wemple:

Glenn Greenwald, PandoDaily tussle over Ukraine, editorial independence — On Friday afternoon, Paul Carr, the investigations editor for PandoDaily, told his followers on Twitter that something was up: … This story, it turned out, involved First Look Media, the much-discussed …

Discussion: @paulcarr and @chanders

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

NYT media desk shuffle continues with Julie Bosman's departure for Midwest beat — Julie Bosman leaves publishing beat for Midwest gig — Julie Bosman, who's covered publishing for The New York Times for the past four years, is leaving the beat for a new gig as the paper's Midwest correspondent.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @juliebosman, @davidwchen, @brianstelter and Publishers Lunch

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

Financial Times CEO: 'We've now achieved critical mass in digital' — In 2007, the Financial Times was one of the first newspapers to begin a serious and sustained effort to build a paid digital content model with the launch of its metered access system. Seven years later …

Discussion: @keithbohanna and @raju

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 …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, IOL, Daily News Egypt, @locke and Associated Press

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: Globe and Mail

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon-owned Audible lowers royalty rates on self-published audiobooks — Audible, the digital audiobook site owned by Amazon that launched audiobook rights platform ACX in 2011 as a way for authors and publishers to profit from their unsold audiobook rights, is now lowering the royalties it pays on those audiobooks.