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12:55 PM ET, March 14, 2014

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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
An inside look at what it's like to work at Russia Today, the Kremlin-funded media outlet  —  How The Truth Is Made At Russia Today  —  “It was my first job and I feel embarrassed and ashamed.”  An inside look at what it's like to work at the Kremlin-funded media outlet.
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David Remnick / The New Yorker Blog:
Putin Moves Against the Press
Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:
Russia Wipes Opposition Sites From The Internet
Reuters:
Comcast deal may offer media companies leverage on fees  —  (Reuters) - Media companies plan to press Comcast Corp for higher fees in the coming year, seeing an opportunity to squeeze better terms from the U.S. cable company as regulators review its planned takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc.
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David Gelles / New York Times:   Charter Still Hanging Around Time Warner Cable
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Newspaper ill-advised to let police post their own online story  —  A newspaper that allowed its local police force to publish an article directly on to its website should be wary of celebrating the initiative.  —  Torbay police posted a “story” on the site of the Torquay Herald Express …
Discussion: HoldTheFrontPage and @gazthejourno
Bloomberg:
Jennifer Lopez-Backed NuvoTV Said to Make Offer for Fuse  —  Jennifer Lopez, the singer and actress who dated Sean “Diddy” Combs more than a decade ago, is now challenging her former beau as the two compete for Madison Square Garden Co.'s Fuse TV, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Discussion: Mediawire Daily, Reuters and EURweb
Reuters:
Russia accuses U.S. of discrimination against Russian journalists  —  (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Friday of unacceptable discrimination against Russian journalists by barring them from a news conference given by President Barack Obama and Ukraine's prime minister.
Discussion: ITAR-TASS
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
New UK study finds young people less enthusiastic about eBooks, many still do not own a tablet  —  The youth insights consultancy Voxburner released a new report on digital content buying habits in which the firm sought to discover more information about the eBook reading habits of young people in the UK.
Discussion: Voxburner and econtentmag.com
Noor Zainab Hussain / Reuters:
British publisher Future's shares slump on profit warning  —  (Reuters) - British publisher Future Plc warned on Friday that its profit this year would be “significantly below” market expectations, sending its shares tumbling as much as 35 percent.  —  Future, whose titles include Total Film …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Vice News Quickly Makes Mark With Ukraine Dispatches  —  NEW YORK — Vice News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky has reported extensively through Central Asia, the Middle East and the Caucasus region, but says he's never encountered as much hostility as he has covering the Russian invasion of Crimea.
Discussion: NY Daily News
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
What a German Comedy Can Teach Kristen Bell About Crowdfunding  —  After three weeks near the top of the German box office, “Stromberg” is set to pay back online fans who invested $1.4 million to get it made.  —  Kirsten Bell's Veronica Mars reboot is set to light up the box office …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
IMDbPromo.com, Which Claimed to Boost Star Rankings on IMDb, Shuts Down  —  IMDbPromo.com, a service that promised to boost individual STARmeter rankings in the IMDbPro database for upwards of $999, said it has pulled the plug on the service at IMDb's behest.
Kate Knibbs / Daily Dot:
BuzzFeed aggregation of tweets about sexual assault raises questions about ethics of embedding  —  The ethics of embedding tweets  —  Christina Fox, a prolific Twitter user under the name @steenfox, posed a question to her followers: What were you wearing when you were sexually assaulted?
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
YouTube Gives UK Gov't Broad Powers To Censor Videos It Doesn't Like, Even If They're Legal  —  A few years ago, then-Senator Joe Lieberman went on a bizarre anti-free speech crusade against YouTube, arguing that by allowing “terrorists” to post videos to YouTube, people were watching those videos and magically turning into terrorists.
 
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Sherwin Siy / Wired:
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Discussion: Techdirt, TorrentFreak and Daily Dot
Michael Holden / Reuters:
Princess Diana leaked royal directories to Murdoch tabloid, court hears
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Telegraph
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Drone flight over Harlem disaster shows messy state of FAA rules
Discussion: Poynter, NY Daily News and Bloomberg
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
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