Mediagazer: Rebekah Brooks: NI's ‘rogue reporter’ defence shaky after 2009 revelations (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

9:45 AM ET, March 3, 2014

Top News:

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: BelfastTelegraph.co.uk and ITV News

Guardian:

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Latest News & Headlines, Forbes, Softpedia News, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone and mUmBRELLA

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 …

Discussion: USA Today, PandoDaily, @glennf, @qhardy, @mathewi, @kljdavis, @jfagone, @mattyglesias, @tilojung, PandoDaily and The Raw Story

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
First Look Media could preempt controversy by publishing a statement of principles endorsed by employees and investors

Discussion: @albertocairo, emptywheel, Omidyar Network and @jayrosen_nyu

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, The Inquisitr News and Forbes

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: @jenny8lee, @zseward, @abeaujon and @raju

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.

Discussion: @carr2n, @peterlattman, @counternotions and @raju

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: TechCrunch

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:

Discussion: @theellenshow, Guardian, NY Daily News, Mediaite, BGR, @spacecitymarc, AllTwitter, The Inquisitr News, Talking Points Memo, @hriefs, @jorcohen, @moneyries, @elanazak, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Hollywood Life

Latin American Herald Tribune:

Kidnapped Spanish Journalist Released in Syria — BARCELONA - Spanish journalist Marc Marginedas, who was kidnapped in Syria on Sept. 4, has been released and is in good health in Turkey, from where on Sunday he spoke by telephone with his family and with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Discussion: Guardian

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

Los Angeles Times:

TV news employee rescued after being trapped in waist-deep mud — A TV news employee trying to report from the scene of an unstable Azusa hillside Friday got stuck in waist-high mud and had to be rescued. The man was reporting in the hillside above the home of Dennis Sanderson on Ridge View Drive when he got stuck in the mud.