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8:50 AM ET, February 23, 2015

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Jim Romenesko:
Ken Silverstein resigns from Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, blasts ‘dishonest’ leadership  —  Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein has resigned from First Look Media's The Intercept after 14 months, saying he and others were hired “under what were essentially false pretenses [by being] …
BBC:
Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt jails activist-blogger for five years  —  An Egyptian court has jailed prominent blogger and pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah for five years at his retrial for violating a protest law.  —  He was previously given a 15-year jail term in the case over his alleged role in a protest in 2013.
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CBC News:
Mohamed Fahmy's retrial in Egypt adjourned until March 8  —  'It's another circus of a retrial,' after 2 witnesses don't show, says Fahmy, seeking deportation to Canada  —  Fahmy's retrial in Egypt adjourned until March 8 2:23  —  The retrial of Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy …
Gabriel Arana / The Huffington Post:
O'Reilly Indeed Embellishing War Reporting Experience, Says CBS Colleague  —  Buenos Aires was neither a “war zone” nor a “combat situation” after Argentina surrendered to Britain in the Falklands War, says one of Bill O'Reilly's former colleagues at CBS who was with him in the capital at the time.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly hits back at Mother Jones report about his war zone reporting experience
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT media desk in flux after death of David Carr and staff reductions, while beat remains unrelenting and important  —  In Big Media Town, ‘Core’ Beat in Flux  —  AS Dean Baquet sees it, there are some coverage areas at which The Times simply must excel.  —  International reporting is one …
Peter Maass / The Intercept:
The Intercept's Laura Poitras Wins Academy Award for ‘Citizenfour’  —  Laura Poitras, a founding editor of The Intercept, won an Academy Award tonight for her documentary “Citizenfour,” an inside look at Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Apple expanding its editorial efforts, hiring music journalist for iTunes team in London  —  Apple hiring for iTunes role with ‘specific expertise in music journalism’  —  A recruitment ad for an ‘Editorial Producer’ within Apple's iTunes team in London hints at plans to beef …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Report examines the rise of games and quizzes in online media and how news orgs take advantage  —  Riddle me this: How can news orgs better use games and quizzes?  —  The New York Times' most popular piece of content in 2013 wasn't an article — it was, of course, its now famous dialogue quiz.
Firstpost:
Reuters Pakistan bureau chief Maria Golovnina found dead  —  Islamabad: Maria Golovnina, Islamabad-based bureau chief of Reuters for Pakistan and Afghanistan, was found dead in her office-cum-residence in the capital's F-8 sector, police sources said on Monday.
Fredrik deBoer:
With so much overlap in coverage, upstarts like Fusion, Vox, and Vice struggle to create unique identities  —  unless your site is about one thing, it's about everything  —  I have, for some reason, spent a couple hours on Fusion tonight.  (.net, teehee.)
Kevin Roose / Fusion:
Meet the tweet-deleters: people who are making their Twitter histories self-destruct  —  Like most media workers, Matthew Lazin-Ryder, a Vancouver-based producer with CBC Radio, spends a fair amount of time on Twitter.  When he tweets, his messages are seen by some percentage of his 3,470 followers.
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Dish Network Founder Charlie Ergen Stepping Back Into CEO Role  —  When Dish Network President and CEO Joe Clayton retires on March 31, company Co-founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen will step back into those top day-to-day jobs.  —  “Over the last four years, Joe's leadership has been instrumental …
 
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Language barriers, low data literacy, and lack of established independent media make data journalism difficult in Afghanistan
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico's plan to launch a gossip column in the gossip-saturated capital
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Vogue offers quick delivery of March print issue via Postmates in NYC and LA for $15, includes six-month subscription
Discussion: @efeng and Postmates
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Conde Nast Hires BuzzFeed Data Head Ky Harlin
Discussion: @condenast
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Machinima Cuts Staff, Shuts Some Channels After New Financing (Exclusive)
Paul Vale / Huffington Post UK:
The Telegraph responds to accusations of advertising influence over editorial by hitting back at the Guardian
Discussion: @ianprior and Financial Times