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6:50 PM ET, February 10, 2015

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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 …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
NBC's fact-checking of Brian Williams will be finished ‘sooner rather than later’  —  The NBC investigator who has been fact-checking the network's star anchor Brian Williams provided a “progress report” to network executives on Monday night.  —  The work is not done yet …
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Photos show Brian Williams' recollection of floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina may have been accurate  —  Photos show Brian Williams' New Orleans hotel was surrounded by water  —  This story will not prove that NBC Anchorman saw a body floating in the New Orleans floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
The Guardian hires Chelsea Manning  —  Chelsea Manning is joining The Guardian U.S. as a contributing opinion writer, the site's editor-in-chief Katharine Viner announced on Tuesday.  —  Manning, previously known as Bradley Manning, was an Army private who was convicted in 2013 and is serving …
Telegraph:
How YouTube became a power player, in industries from politics to music  —  How YouTube changed the world  —  In late 2005, when YouTube was just a few months old, one its co-founders announced that the site's users were consuming the equivalent of an entire Blockbuster store each month.
Guardian:
Julian Assange 24hr guard leaves London police with £10m bill  —  Metropolitan police commissioner says preventing escape of Wikileaks founder from Ecuadorian embassy is ‘sucking resources’  —  Police are reviewing the round-the-clock guard outside the Ecuadorian embassy preventing …
Discussion: @lordbonkers
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Alex Koppelman, Guardian US's enterprise editor, joins Vocativ as editorial director  —  Vocativ names new editorial director, outlines coverage priorities  —  Vocativ, a startup that aims to break news using data and the deep Web, took additional steps in its 2015 reboot Tuesday …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Flipboard launches on web, strikes ad revenue sharing deals with publishers including National Geographic and Fast Company  —  Flipboard swims against the tide by launching a website  —  If there's one word that sums up where most media entities are focused for the future, it's “mobile” …
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Republican Complaints About FCC Net Neutrality Plan Grow  —  Some Republicans who aren't happy about Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposed net neutrality rules are focusing on President Obama's influence in the process.  —  Ajit Pai, a Republican FCC commissioner …
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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Defends His Net Neutrality Proposal
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Strayer University Taps Daily Mail For Elaborate Year-long Branded Content Deal  —  Until about a week ago, the DailyMail.com in the U.S. didn't have a business section.  But thanks to a new ad partnership, it does now-one that is loaded with sponsored content.
Discussion: @digitalshields and Business Wire, Thanks:@sean_p_walsh
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Samsung TVs start inserting ads into your movies  —  Thought you could watch that video on your local hard drive without ads?  Think again: A number of owners of Samsung's smart TVs are reporting this week that their TV sets started to interrupt their movie viewing with Pepsi ads …
Discussion: @patrickinnc, @tomkrazit and CNET
Owen Gibson / Guardian:
Sky and BT retain Premier League TV rights for record £5.14bn  —  Premier League football clubs and players were left rubbing their hands at another huge hike in income after competition between rival media companies Sky and BT drove an increase in their TV rights to more than £5.1bn.
 
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Associated Press offers simultaneous live video feeds to news websites
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Univision posts $136.2M loss, increase of 4.5% in revenue of $727.7M in Q4 earnings
Melanie Newman / TBIJ:
Former GCHQ legal director: Journalists' communications not considered in RIPA drafting
Discussion: @tbij
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
U.S. Copyright Office Releases Proposals for Fundamentals of Music Copyright
Discussion: Engadget
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Presidential interviews rarely make news; Vox's slick presentation of Obama plus softball questions became an extended commercial
Jeff Jarvis / Medium:
Editors and publishers should find a way to point Google to quality, original journalism
Discussion: @fredericl