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12:20 AM ET, February 10, 2015

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Travis J. Tritten / Stars & Stripes:
Stars and Stripes publishes full transcript of Feb 4. interview with Brian Williams, in which he admits he was never on the attacked helicopter  —  In his words: Brian Williams' interview with Stars and Stripes  —  WASHINGTON — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Sunday scuttled …
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New York Times:
Under Fire, Brian Williams Loses Lofty Spot on a Trustworthiness Scale  —  If Brian Williams's future as the anchor of “NBC Nightly News” rests on his trustworthiness and ratings, new research delivered some sobering news on Monday.  —  Before Mr. Williams apologized for exaggerating …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC's Brian Williams told varying versions of rocket fire in Israel-Hezbollah war
Felix Salmon / Fusion:
Advice for young journalists: Find another more lucrative, lasting career  —  To all the young journalists asking for advice....  Thanks very much for your email!  I'm always happy to meet just about anybody, and would love to find some time to have that coffee with you.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Presidential interviews rarely make news; Vox's slick presentation of Obama plus softball questions became an extended commercial  —  All the President's Explainers  —  Interviews with the president are always useless.  Vox's was no different.  —  A sit-down interview with the president …
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Obama: Vox ‘for the brainiac-nerd types’
New York Times:
Hopes dwindling of Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal being approved by Washington regulators  —  Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal Still Up in the Air a Year Later  —  Cable Giants Defend Comcast Deal Cable Giants Defend Comcast Deal  —  David Faber of CNBC questioned the chief executives …
Discussion: Gothamist and mUmBRELLA
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube's Young Turks now producing five-day-a-week series on Facebook; won't generate revenue  —  Facebook Landing More Original Web Series  —  More content companies are starting to produce original Web series designed specifically for distribution on Facebook .
Netflix:
Netflix starts offering service in Cuba for $7.99 a month  —  Netflix Is Available in Cuba  —  Cubans Will Gain Access to A Broad Range of Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-up Comedy Specials and TV Shows Starting At $7.99  —  Los Gatos, California, February 9, 2015 …
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Tablet magazine starts charging readers to comment on stories, at $2/day, $18/month, or $180/year  —  Tablet magazine starts charging commenters  —  As a number of news sites eliminate their comments sections altogether, Tablet, a daily online magazine of Jewish news and culture …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Nonprofit Voice of San Diego redesigns with goal of driving membership and email newsletter signups  —  Voice of San Diego, 10 years old today, is rethinking its editorial and tech around membership  —  Voice of San Diego editor in chief and CEO Scott Lewis finally has everything he wants.
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Iran foreign minister says he hopes Post reporter Jason Rezaian will be cleared  —  MUNICH — Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that he hopes Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post correspondent who has been in jail since July, will be cleared in court.  —  Mohammad Javad Zarif …
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
French government can now block sites that advocate terrorism or contain images of child abuse without a court order; ISPs must comply within 24 hours  —  French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect  —  Law that allows blockade of offending sites without …
Discussion: SlashGear, PandoDaily and The Verge
Jeff Jarvis / Medium:
Editors and publishers should find a way to point Google to quality, original journalism  —  What news can do for Google (and itself)  —  How about a search of only original reporting?  —  In recent months, I've heard a lot of news executives complain about Google and transparency, particularly in relationship to search.
Discussion: @fredericl
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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CBC News:
Canadian climate scientist wins $50k in defamation case against National Post; judge orders retraction, deletion of columns
Discussion: Toronto Star and ThinkProgress
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
CNN poaches two more staff from Politico; Hilary Krieger joining as Enterprise editor, Daniella Diaz joining digital production team
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BBC:
Following murder of journalist Kenji Goto, Japanese government seizes passport of Syria-bound photographer
Discussion: The Newspaper Guild
Jeremy Kessel / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter transparency report: in the last 6 months, government requests for user account information and content removal were up 40% and 84% respectively
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Will Vevo's 10bn monthly views finally attract a buyer?