Mediagazer: Russia's English-Language TV Channel: We're Biased and So Are You (Jason Abbruzzese/Mashable)

9:10 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” …

James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:

Exclusive: RT Anchor Liz Wahl Explains Why She Quit — Liz Wahl wasn't just disgusted by the Kremlin-funded TV network's handling of Ukraine, she says in an exclusive interview. RT's coverage of the entire world “made me feel sick.” — American journalist Liz Wahl just made Vladimir Putin's enemies list.

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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:

Russia's English-Language TV Channel: We're Biased and So Are You — RT, the Russian government-funded English-language television channel, presents its country's view of the world — So, it claims, does every other broadcaster. RT is just honest enough to admit it. — “Media outlets do not exist in a vacuum.

Discussion: @nycjim

RT:

RT reacts to anchor Liz Wahl quitting on air — During a live broadcast on Wednesday, RT America presenter Liz Wahl announced she was stepping down, citing her disagreements with the network's editorial policy. RT issued a statement following her resignation.

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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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Choire Sicha / The Awl:

Reddit Reeling From Brutal Dox Of Alleged Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto — With Leah McGrath Goodman's identification of the founder of Bitcoin at Newsweek (not really a slam-dunk case? But, I'll take it, for now?), the greater Bitcoin-Internet is aghast. How dare this magazine expose this person?

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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 …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks: I did not investigate phone hacking as NI chief executive — Court also hears Brooks never asked what private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had been doing when she was NoW editor — Rebekah Brooks has told the Old Bailey that she did not undertake any investigation …

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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

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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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

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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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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 …

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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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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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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Government backs off case against journalist who faced decades in prison for posting hyperlink

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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 …