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12:35 PM ET, March 6, 2014

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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) …

Discussion: Quartz, Gawker, Forbes, FishbowlDC, Mediawire Daily, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Paul McNamara's blog, Softpedia News, The Straits Times, @newmanology, @actualadvicebtc, Talking New Media and Business Insider

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?

Discussion: Poynter, Capital New York, CNET, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, SlashGear, Forbes, New York Magazine, @obsoletedogma, Business Insider, @kmmokai, @anildash, @mims, @rustyk5, @djbentley and @rustyk5

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

The Outing of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Brilliant Journalism — In Newsweek, finance editor Leah McGrath Goodman claims to have outed the mysterious creator of the digital currency Bitcoin. The Japanese-American man lives in California and incredibly, is actually named Satoshi Nakamoto.

Discussion: Fortune, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider

Felix Gillette / Businessweek:
New Newsweek Taps Slovakian Paywall Gurus for an Ambitious Relaunch

Discussion: @bw

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.

Discussion: Forbes, Poynter, Firedoglake, MSNBC, Hollywood Life, Mediaite, RT, Pressing Issues, @lizwahl, Fox News Insider, @j_bloodworth, @coalsonr, @jayrosen_nyu, Erik Wemple, WorldViews, The Verge, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Telegraph, New York Magazine, The Week and New York Times

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.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, TVNewser, Erik Wemple, Firedoglake, @zaidbenjamin, The Week, @paulszoldra, @sambonfante, The Huffington Post and Business Insider

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air

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: 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 …

Discussion: mUmBRELLA

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Rebekah Brooks denies ‘cooking the books’ to hide phone hacker's activities

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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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, @fayebellinew and Guardian

Callie Schweitzer / TIME:

Why Twitter Will Never Be a News Organization — Twitter's head of news Vivian Schiller spoke with TIME about Twitter, Facebook, news discovery and more in an exclusive first interview since she left NBC News and took on the role in January. A few key insights?

Karl Taro Greenfeld / Businessweek:

The Next Ailes: Newsmax's Chris Ruddy Preps TV Rival to Fox News — Christopher Ruddy, 49, the chief executive officer and founder of conservative media company Newsmax Media, is giving a tour of his neighborhood in an Acura driven by his chauffeur, Hector. The car heads south on I-95 from West Palm Beach to Boca Raton.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, @brianstelter, @davidfolkenflik, @mlcalderone and @jackshafer

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

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Jack Griffin named CEO of Tribune Publishing … Tribune Co. has named the leadership team for Tribune Publishing, which is preparing to spin off as a separate newspaper company later this year. — Eddy Hartenstein, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times, will serve as non-executive chairman …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Talking New Media and @alexrichards

Jason Schwartz / Boston Magazine:

Q&A with Boston Globe owner John Henry on service, real-estate, digital pricing and revenue — The John Henry Emails — Our story this month on John Henry takes a deep dive look at his decision to buy the Boston Globe and his quest to save journalism.

Discussion: @ryanchittum and @niemanlab

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Embrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it'll be stronger split up than unified

Discussion: Boston Magazine, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @justinnxt and bizjournals

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Crimean ‘prime minister’ shuts down Ukrainian TV channel — The self-proclaimed prime minister of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, today (6 March) shut down a Ukrainian TV channel and allowed the frequency to be taken by a Russian TV channel, Rossiya. — According to a press release emailed …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

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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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Government backs off case against journalist who faced decades in prison for posting hyperlink — The US government has filed a motion to dismiss several charges against journalist Barrett Brown, who was indicted in 2012 for posting a link to leaked documents among other alleged offenses.