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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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RT reacts to anchor Liz Wahl quitting on air
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James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: RT Anchor Liz Wahl Explains Why She Quit
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Testimony at Hacking Trial Gives Peek Into British Tabloids
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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
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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) …
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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.
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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 …
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.
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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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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 …
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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) …
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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.
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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Guardian CEO: The paywall ‘horse has bolted’ for us
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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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