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8:55 AM ET, February 11, 2015

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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Globe and Mail and TOWCenter
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.
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” …
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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Owen Gibson / Guardian:
Sky and BT retain Premier League TV rights for record £5.14bn
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
Guardian:
Julian Assange 24hr guard leaves London police with £10m bill
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

 
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