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8:10 AM ET, March 6, 2014

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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air  —  WASHINTON — Russia Today America anchor Liz Wahl resigned live on air on Wednesday, saying that she could no longer work at the Kremlin-funded network after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  Wahl said that she feels “many ethical and moral challenges” …
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James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: RT Anchor Liz Wahl Explains Why She Quit
JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
CNN sells Zite to Flipboard in all-stock transaction worth more than the $20M CNN paid in 2011  —  Flipboard buys Zite news app from CNN  —  The standalone iPad news app will eventually be shut down and integrated into Flipboard.  Also: Zite's CEO tells Fortune why he left.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Flipboard CEO and CNN digital head talk about future of Zite, advertising and Facebook's Paper  —  More On Flipboard's Acquisition Of Zite: “The Deal Whisperer”, Zite's Fate, The Price Tag, And Paper  —  Getty Images Jumps Into The Age Of Social Media With A Free Embed Tool For Its Photo Library
Laurie Segall / CNNMoney:
CNN sells Zite to Flipboard, teams up to launch custom magazines for CNN shows
Guardian:
BBC3 closure confirmed for autumn 2015  —  Director general Tony Hall confirms the digital channel will close in the autumn of 2015, creating space for the launch of BBC1+1  —  BBC3 shows such as Family Guy will be available on the iPlayer after the channel's closure.  Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Everett/Rex Features
Discussion: Guardian
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BBC:
BBC One to get £30m from Three closure  —  BBC One drama is to receive a £30m boost from the closure BBC Three as a TV channel, director general Tony Hall has announced.  —  The service, which will be moved to the iPlayer in autumn 2015, will see its overall cost reduced from £85m to £25m.
Gemma Padley / British Journal of Photography:
Getty Images makes 35 million images free in fight against copyright infringement  —  Getty Images has single-handedly redefined the entire stock photography market with the launch of a new embedding feature that will make more than 35 million images freely available to anyone for non-commercial usage.
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Lexy Savvides / CNET:
Getty making select photos free to embed for non-commercial use, removes watermarks
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks denies ‘cooking the books’ to hide phone hacker's activities  —  Ex-News of the World editor tells court £92,000-a-year contract ‘never came to my attention’ as it was paid in weekly instalments  —  Rebekah Brooks has denied “cooking the books” at the News of the World …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Embrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it'll be stronger split up than unified  —  The model for the 20th-century American newspaper was to be all things to all people, in one amalgamated package.  One daily bundle of newsprint could give you baseball box scores …
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Jason Schwartz / Boston Magazine:
Q&A with Boston Globe owner John Henry on service, real-estate, digital pricing and revenue
Discussion: @niemanlab
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Newsweek relaunches in print Friday, tracks down Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto for cover story  —  Newsweek Relaunches in Print with Bitcoin Coup Exclusive look at the first issue By Lucia Moses  —  Newsweek returns to newsstands Friday with a small press run (70,000) …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Time.com Gets A Big Redesign, Along With New Ad Units  —  The new Time.com is here.  —  Well, it should be here for some of you, anyway.  A spokesperson said that the first few users should see the new layout now, and it will continue rolling out tonight and tomorrow.
Reuters:
Exclusive: DirecTV in talks with Disney on deal for Internet rights  —  (Reuters) - DirecTV is in talks with Walt Disney Co to license the rights to offer Disney's broadcast and cable channels as part of an Internet-based product, DirecTV said on Wednesday.  —  The deal would mirror …
Discussion: The Verge and CNET
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Statement on Dismissal of 11 Charges Against Barrett Brown  —  The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas today filed a motion to dismiss 11 charges against Barrett Brown in a criminal prosecution that would have had massive implications for journalism and the right of ordinary people to share links.
Discussion: RT and Freedom of the Press …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Government backs off case against journalist who faced decades in prison for posting hyperlink
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Al-Jazeera trial: prosecution presents contents of journalists' hotel rooms  —  Trial in Egypt descends into farce on day two as everything from journalists' hotel rooms is presented as evidence by prosecution  —  The second day of the trial of three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt descended …
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Haitham Tabei / Agence France-Presse:
Torture claim in Egypt trial of Jazeera journalists
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Al Jazeera America at Six Months: Some New Advertisers, Few Viewers  —  Serious Cable News Network Is on the Right Path, Buyers Say  —  Al Jazeera America is averaging less than half its predecessor's audience  —  Krux  —  Al Jazeera America is starting to earn the trust of some advertisers …
Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times:
A New Magazine for Fans of the Vatican's Biggest Star  —  ROME — Just a few days short of the first anniversary of Pope Francis' election, there is fresh evidence that his honeymoon with the public persists: He is getting his own magazine.  —  The 68-page Il Mio Papa (My Pope) …
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Guardian's digital boom  —  Revenue rises sharply online for a second-straight year  —  The Guardian had another big year of digital business last year, further brightening the paper's long-term outlook.  —  The paper says its digital revenue will hit $117 million in its current fiscal year, which ends on March 31.
Discussion: Poynter and Guardian
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Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Europe's Top TV Network RTL Sees Profits Rocket as Ad Market Improves  —  Group revenue drops 1.8% to $8.09 billion as FremantleMedia sees revenue fall  —  FRANKFURT, Germany — RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcast network and owner of FremantleMedia, has reported profits up 37.4% to Euros 948 million ($1.3 billion) for 2013.
 
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Q&A: ESPN's Henry Abbott on TrueHoop, serving readers, and the future of sports blogging
Discussion: @niemanlab
Brian Ries / Mashable:
A War of Open Letters Between Ukrainian and Russian Media
David Luhnow / Wall Street Journal:
Ratings War in Mexico Pits Nielsen Against TV Giants Televisa and Azteca
Molly McHugh / Daily Dot:
Introducing the Daily Dot's Tech section
Discussion: PR Newswire
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
TheStreet.com to pay contributors based on page views
John Reynolds / Guardian:
'Three-fifths of Twitter's UK users follow a newspaper or journalist'
Discussion: @markdeuze