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5:05 PM ET, February 8, 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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NBC News President Deborah Turness confirms probe into Brian Williams' story, working on “next steps”  —  NBC News breaks silence on Brian Williams  —  NBC News has finally broken its silence on the Brian Williams ‘Choppergate’ controversy.  —  In a memo to staff …
The Huffington Post:
Who Could Replace Brian Williams At ‘NBC Nightly News’?  —  NEW YORK — When NBC News recently celebrated Brian Williams' decade behind the “Nightly News” anchor desk, the network went with the tagline: “He's been there.  He'll be there.”  —  But where “he's been” is now in question.
Corky Siemaszko / NY Daily News:
NBC to investigate Brian Williams about Iraq lie: sources
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
As leader of a news division, Brian Williams should be re-reporting his own war story
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  —  What the CIA didn't want Americans to know  —  Agency brass tried to spike a story implicating the CIA in the killing of a top Hezbollah terrorist.
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 …
Diana Marszalek / NetNewsCheck:
New Orleans' The Lens facing a crucial year after string of funding setbacks, unexpected move  —  Can N.O. Lens' Critical Reporting Sustain?  —  New Orleans nonprofit investigative site The Lens is facing a crucible year after a string of funding setbacks that may be directly tied to some of its hard-hitting reporting.
Will Oremus / Slate:
Why do writers inaccurately call the software that writes AP news stories “robots”?  —  Automated Insights' AP earnings reports: “Robot journalists” a misnomer?  —  Automated journalism is no longer science fiction.  It's time to change what we call it.
Agence France-Presse:
Japan seizes passport of journalist trying to visit Syria: reports  —  2 hrs ago  —  Japan has seized the passport of a journalist planning to travel to Syria following the brutal killing of two Japanese hostages by the Islamic State group there, local media said Sunday.
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Lack of listener data has held advertising back on podcasts, but outlook is improving  —  The measurement challenge facing podcast advertising  —  Apple has been a big factor in the growth of podcasting, but it's also a major force holding the medium back.
Discussion: @digiday
Hisham Adra / Asharq Al-Awsat:
Some Syrian publishing houses struggle on in the midst of war as others shut down or move out  —  Syrian Publishing's Uncertain Future  —  The headquarters of Al-Bashayer publishing house in Damascus, Syria (Asharq Al-Awsat)  —  Damascus, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the years before the Syrian uprising broke …
Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
In his final column, outgoing NPR ombudsman addresses the ethical challenges NPR faces  —  Last Thoughts: NPR And The Balance Between Ethics And The Nation  —  Editor's Note: My predecessor, Edward Schumacher-Matos, has been reflecting on his tenure as NPR's Ombudsman, which ended Jan. 31.
Discussion: @romenesko
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
NowThis scraps its website, goes all-in on social  —  NowThis, which was founded to try and reinvent the way video news is delivered, took another step in that direction Friday by scrapping its website of video content and establishing it as solely a repository of links to its presence on outside social media platforms.
 
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Kelly J O'Brien / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
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