Mediagazer: FCC Proposes $1.9 Mil Fine Against Viacom, NBCU and ESPN for Emergency Alert Spot (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)

5:40 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.

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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Wall Street Journal:

ABC's Oscars Video-Stream Outage Points to Big Challenges for Networks — Traffic Overload During Academy Awards Tested Web-Streaming Capabilities — ABC's streaming-video service suffered an outage during the airing of the Academy Awards on Sunday night, pointing to the technology …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC's Live Oscar Internet Stream Suffers Nationwide Outage

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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 …

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

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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.

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

Marc Fisher / Columbia Journalism Review:

Who cares if it's true? — Modern-day newsrooms reconsider their values — BuzzFeed editors say their audience used to see their site as a place you could find really cool stuff, but not a place you could trust. They're trying to change that. (Sean Hemmerle)

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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.

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Caysey Welton / Folio:

Tom Drouillard Named AAM CEO — He joins the organization from Scarborough Research. — The Alliance for Audited Media named Tom Drouillard as its new CEO, president and managing director. He will be replacing Mike Lavery, who is retiring on March 31. — Drouillard carries …

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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 …

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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 …

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

FCC Proposes $1.9 Mil Fine Against Viacom, NBCU and ESPN for Emergency Alert Spot — The FCC has proposed levying $1.93 million in fines against Viacom, NBCUniversal and ESPN for airing commercial for the 2013movie “Olympus Has Fallen” that used the distinctive warning tone of the federal Emergency Alert System.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Hulu Hires Disney's Tim Connolly as Head of Distribution — Hulu has hired Tim Connolly, who has run The Walt Disney Co.'s digital distribution initiatives for TV content, to be head of distribution as CEO Mike Hopkins continues to rebuild the company's management team.

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