Mediagazer: Ukrainian MP assaults television station chief for ‘pro-Russian’ stance (Shaun Walker/Guardian)

9:15 AM ET, March 20, 2014

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Alan Yuhas / Guardian:

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Shaun Walker / Guardian:

Ukrainian MP assaults television station chief for ‘pro-Russian’ stance — Footage of Igor Miroshnichenko and five men forcing Oleksandr Panteleymonov to write resignation leader released online — Ukraine's new government was facing a stern test of resolve after a nationalist Ukrainian …

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The Atlantic Online:

David Frum Named Senior Editor at The Atlantic — Washington, D.C. (March 19, 2014)— The veteran political commentator and author David Frum is joining The Atlantic as a senior editor beginning March 31, James Bennet, editor in chief of The Atlantic, announced today.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

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Jemimah Steinfeld / Index on Censorship:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

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Mary Clare Fischer / American Journalism Review:

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Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:

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David E. Frank / Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly:

Jury returns $563K libel verdict against Boston Herald — A Suffolk Superior Court jury has found that the Boston Herald committed actual malice in a story which falsely reported a woman had engaged in “sexual acts” with a Bridgewater inmate during a 2009 visit.

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Ben Branstetter / Daily Dot:

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