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4:30 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” …
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.
Andy Carvin / Medium:
Graphic footage: fanning the flames or bearing witness?  —  Reported.ly editor-in-chief Andy Carvin challenges his own assumptions of when it's ethical to publish graphic footage and when it isn't.  —  Contains graphic images.  —  THE SLIDESHOW BEGINS with a photo of a trail …
Discussion: 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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: San Diego Reader
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: @evandmac, @emilybell and @myersnews
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.
 
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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
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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
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Lucky magazine, spun off by Conde Nast last year into BeachMint shopping joint venture, lays off about 10
Discussion: Fashionista