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7:40 PM ET, February 20, 2015

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Telegraph:
Times publisher, News UK, launches internal investigation after suicides of two members of its commercial staff  —  News UK, the publisher of The Times and The Sun, denies claims that the lines have been blurred between its commercial and editorial operations, despite boasts from a senior executive …
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Paul Vale / Huffington Post UK:
The Telegraph responds to accusations of advertising influence over editorial by hitting back at the Guardian  —  The Daily Telegraph Goes To War With The Guardian In Tit For Tat Attack Over Advertising  —  The Telegraph has declared war on the Guardian.  In recent days the Guardian …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Bill O'Reilly to address Mother Jones article tonight in Talking Points Memo  —  Fox News host Bill O'Reilly will fire back at Mother Jones Friday in response to an article alleging he misrepresented his experiences reporting on the Falklands War.  —  The rebuttal, which will come in O'Reilly's …
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Mother Jones:
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's tales about his own combat reporting fail to withstand scrutiny  —  Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem  —  The Fox News host has said he was in a “war zone” that apparently no American correspondent reached.  —  After NBC News suspended anchor …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice News Launches First Live Weekly Show on YouTube  —  Samsung's Milk Video service will have exclusive 72-hour window of on-demand replays of Skype-driven ‘On the Line’  —  Vice News is launching weekly half-hour talk show “On the Line,” streamed live on YouTube each Thursday …
Discussion: @pkafka, Tubefilter and VideoInk
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Investigative Reporting Pulitzer entries up 50 percent since magazines were allowed in  —  Since The Pulitzer Prizes changed the rules to allow online and print magazines, the contest has seen a 50 percent increase in investigative entries compared to last year, Mike Pride, the administrator of The Pulitzer Prizes, said in an email.
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Machinima Cuts Staff, Shuts Some Channels After New Financing (Exclusive)  —  Just because Machinima secured $24 million in new funding doesn't make it immune to some belt-tightening.  —  The digital content network laid off 13 of its 90 employees Friday, according to sources, as well a few part-time staffers.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC to Live-Stream Oscars Backstage Show on Facebook for Free  —  Video highlights of kudocast will post to Facebook, Oscar.com immediately after they air on TV  —  ABC has pacted with Facebook to live-stream “The Oscars Backstage” on the world's biggest social-media service in conjunction …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Tubefilter
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Mohamed Fahmy lashes out at al-Jazeera over protecting its journalists  —  Reporter jailed last June with Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed says network had own political agenda during reign of the Muslim Brotherhood and hung them out to dry despite repeated warnings, a view backed by some of their colleagues
Discussion: @tomwrollins and @mirceabarbu
NPR:
David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As ‘The New Yorker’ Turns 90  —  Listen to the Story  —  When David Remnick took the job as editor of The New Yorker in 1998, he learned quickly to make firm decisions about contentious stories.  Just a few months into the position …
Discussion: @robneyer
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Atlantic's health editor combines playful web video series with serious writing on issues  —  James Hamblin: A fresh perspective for health journalism  —  The Atlantic editor has accumulated a loyal following with his video series “If Our Bodies Could Talk”  —  James Hamblin keeps getting compared to Doogie Howser.
Marco della Cava / USA Today:
YouTube Kids for Android set to launch February 23 featuring parental controls and a simplified UI  —  YouTube unveils new app for kids  —  SAN FRANCISCO - YouTube is repository of clips that range from exceedingly educational to suggestively explicit.  So to make sure younger fans …
Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
Emotional and Effective, Upworthy's Native Ads Have Brought in More Than $10 Million for the Site  —  When Starbucks wanted to share the uplifting story of how its local events helped a deaf woman discover a large, supportive community, the coffee chain turned to a somewhat obvious choice: Upworthy.
Discussion: Gigaom and PR Newswire
 
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Marc Graser / Variety:
Racked Launches First Scripted Series as Vox Media Starts Dressing Up Sites with Video
Discussion: Tubefilter
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times nominates two with web expertise to board: CEO of Expedia, Dara Khosrowshahi, and Facebook's head of brand marketing, Rebecca Van Dyck
Discussion: @raju
Todd Spangler / Variety:
DirecTV Finally Launches WatchESPN, Other Disney and ABC Internet-Video Services
Discussion: Multichannel News
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