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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] …
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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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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 …
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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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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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.
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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.)
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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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