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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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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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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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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.
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
A year old story about the Central African Republic has received 80% of its traffic in 2015 — Why a year-old Washington Post article about violence in the Central African Republic went viral — Modern journalism thrives on analytic tools that tell us how often and widely our articles are being read.
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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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
BitTorrent partners with Rapid Eye Studios for shows exclusive to BitTorrent Bundle for 30 to 60 days — BitTorrent partners with Rapid Eye Studios to produce exclusive TV shows known as BitTorrent Originals — BitTorrent today announced an exclusive partnership with Rapid Eye Studios to launch BitTorrent Originals.
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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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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.
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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 …
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 …
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