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8:20 AM ET, February 9, 2015

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Brian Williams / Inside NBC News:
Brian Williams taking temporary leave from NBC Nightly News for next several days  —  A Personal Note from Brian Williams  —  In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions.
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David Carr / New York Times:
Brian Williams didn't satisfy the public with his weak apology, but shouldn't be fired  —  Brian Williams and Memories Retread From a Perch Too Public  —  For some time now, there have been two versions of Brian Williams.  One is an Emmy-winning, sober, talented anchor on the “NBC Nightly News” …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC's Brian Williams told varying versions of rocket fire in Israel-Hezbollah war  —  NBC News anchor Brian Williams certainly has placed himself in dangerous situations in covering wars and natural disasters over the years.  But how much danger?  With Williams, the answer varies.
The Huffington Post:
Who Could Replace Brian Williams At ‘NBC Nightly News’?
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Vox and BuzzFeed to interview Obama this week, leveraging Facebook to promote the conversations  —  Vox and BuzzFeed Obtain Interviews With Obama  —  A pair of fast-growing digital media companies, Vox and BuzzFeed, have landed their first interviews with President Obama.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Sling TV opens the floodgates, accepts sign-ups without invites  —  Sling TV, the online TV streaming service from Dish Networks, is now available to everyone: The service ended its invitation-only soft launch late Sunday night and began to accept sign-ups from everyone on its website.
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Tony Biasotti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Philanthropist Malin Burnham explores whether a local nonprofit would buy U-T San Diego  —  Could U-T San Diego become the first ‘community-owned’ major metro paper?  —  Philanthropist Malin Burnham has a plan: Get a local nonprofit to buy the publication  —  It's a buyers' market for newspapers.
Al Jazeera English:
Egypt sets Feb. 12 retrial date for Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy  —  Egypt sets retrial date for jailed Al Jazeera staff  —  Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy to appear in court on February 12.  —  Egyptian authorities have set a date for the retrial …
Andy Carvin / Medium:
Graphic footage: fanning the flames or bearing witness?  —  THE SLIDESHOW BEGINS with a photo of a trail of flame traveling across the dirt from right to left, like a scene from a movie where the bad guy—or maybe the good guy—leaves a thin trail of gas and drops a match to blow something up.
Discussion: @reportedly, @johnsonr and Gigaom
Agence France-Presse:
Ukraine arrests TV journalist on treason charges after he denounces draft in YouTube video  —  Ukraine Arrests Journalist After Call to Dodge Draft  —  KIEV:  —  Ukraine's security service arrested a journalist on treason charges on Sunday after he posted a video online urging people …
Discussion: @homo_viator and @markamesexiled
Lydia Tomkiw / Nieman Lab:
With aggregation and translation, Russia's free-press-in-exile site Meduza is reaching English readers  —  At a moment when the world's attention has again turned towards Eastern Europe, a new media outlet is using a mixture of translation and aggregation to bring news from Russia to an English-speaking audience.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Will Vevo's 10bn monthly views finally attract a buyer?  —  Vevo featured prominently in the end-of-year analyses of what's popular on YouTube: it accounted for 43 of the top 250 channels in 2014, ahead of nearest rival Maker Studios' 29 entries in that chart.
Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
Judith Regan re-enters the book business with her new imprint, Regan Arts, eight years after her exit from News Corporation  —  Judith Regan Is Back.  Watch Out.  —  In Judith Regan's corner office on the eighth floor of an office building on Bleecker Street is a picture frame with a quote inside …
 
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Why do writers inaccurately call the software that writes AP news stories “robots”?
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Lack of listener data has held advertising back on podcasts, but outlook is improving
Discussion: @digiday
Agence France-Presse:
Japan seizes passport of journalist trying to visit Syria: reports
Hisham Adra / Asharq Al-Awsat:
Some Syrian publishing houses struggle on in the midst of war as others shut down or move out
Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
In his final column, outgoing NPR ombudsman addresses the ethical challenges NPR faces
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Kelly J O'Brien / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why the secret criminal investigation of WikiLeaks is troubling for journalists
Discussion: @newsrevo
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Pandora Readies Fight Against BMI's Royalty Claims
Discussion: mUmBRELLA
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Newsweek held story about CIA/Mossad role in assassination of top Hezbollah operative for a year, at the CIA's request, then got scooped by the Washington Post
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Lucky magazine, spun off by Conde Nast last year into BeachMint shopping joint venture, lays off about 10
Discussion: Fashionista
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Huffington Post Bets People Will Read Good News — And Share It, Too