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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NBC: Brian Williams suspended for 6 months without pay — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been suspended for six months without pay, the network announce Tuesday night. — The full memo from NBC News President Deborah Turness:
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Jeb Lund / Guardian:
Brian Williams will lose his job for giving us what we wanted to hear — Williams was upholding a long tradition of sending prestige journalists into war zones and equating them with soldiers for instant credibility — ame, money and power aside, it's hard not to feel a little twinge …
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Suspending Brian Williams buys NBC time to consider his replacement at a time when news anchors are losing influence — Here's why NBC didn't fire Brian Williams — NBC President Deborah Turness announced Tuesday she is suspending Brian Williams for six months with no pay.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Jon Stewart to sign off ‘Daily Show’ — It is the end of a fake-news era. — Jon Stewart, whose wit defined “The Daily Show” for more than 15 years, will sign off the iconic Comedy Central program later this year, the cable channel said on Tuesday. — Stewart is expected to speak …
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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 …
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Reuters:
Time Warner Q4: revenues down 1% to $7.53B, Turner revenue up 2.3% to $2.6B, HBO up 6.2% to $1.3B, Warner Bros down 4.5% — Time Warner profit beats estimates as Turner, HBO businesses grow — (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit …
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Aaron Maté / VICE:
Instead of Freedom, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy Faces a Retrial in Egypt — Just one week after hopes were raised for his release from an Egyptian prison, the nightmare ordeal of Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy has been prolonged. On Sunday, Egypt's military-backed regime said Fahmy …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Report: Online media are more a part of the problem of misinformation ‘than they are the solution’ — On Tuesday evening, Craig Silverman will present his report for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, where he is a fellow. In the more than 100-page paper entitled …
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Time now lets marketers buy print ads with the same automated tools used for digital ads, working with ad tech firm MediaMath — Well, This Is Different — Time Inc. Now Selling Print Ads Programmatically — Target Is the First Customer — Machines are now selling some print ads at Time Inc.
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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” …
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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.
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Malarie Gokey / Digital Trends:
Scribd adds 10,000+ comics, manga, and graphic novels to its $9 per month subscription service — Now you can read Marvel comics, manga, and graphic novels on Scribd — Scribd is setting itself to be the most unorthodox of the many ebook subscription apps.
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