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10:45 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 …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Jon Stewart Helped TV Learn to Love the Internet (Because It Didn't Have Any Choice)  —  Last night lots of people tuned into “The Daily Show” to see Jon Stewart announce that he's leaving “The Daily Show.”  —  But that's not the way “The Daily Show” normally works.
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.
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 …
Steven Musil / CNET:
Target pulls the plug on video-streaming effort Target Ticket  —  The offering will shut down in March, but the retailer has made arrangements for rented content to be available on another streaming service.  —  Retail chain giant Target plans to shut down Target Ticket next month …
Lori Baitarian / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Sudan passes freedom of information law but journalists remain wary  —  The Sudanese government has boasted that its freedom of information law, passed by parliament at the end of January, will increase transparency by giving citizens the right to access and publish public information.
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
AOL Q4: revenue up 5% to $710.3M missing estimates, digital ad earnings beat expectations and more than doubled to $13.5M with revenue up 20%  —  AOL Fourth-Quarter Profit Beats Estimates on Digital Strategy  —  Don't Miss Out —  (Bloomberg) — AOL Inc., operator of the Huffington Post …
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 …
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 …
 
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