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12:15 PM ET, February 24, 2015

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New York Times:
Aggressive defence of Bill O'Reilly by Fox News shows the networks broader strategy to strike back against rival media outlets  —  Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Redouble Defense of His Falklands Reporting  —  The Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Salaries and staff poaching rise as US news outlets prepare for 2016 presidential race  —  2016 campaigns are beefing up staffs.  So are the media who will cover them.  —  And more politics.  —  Forget about 2016.  With the presidential campaign just getting started …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
Comcast Q4 revenue up 4.8% to $17.7B, but struggles to add TV subscribers amidst competition from Amazon, Netflix  —  Comcast's Earnings Trail Estimates as Subscriber Increases Slow  —  Don't Miss Out —  (Bloomberg) — Comcast Corp., the U.S. cable company awaiting approval to acquire …
Discussion: The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast CEO Optimistic on Time Warner Cable Deal Review  —  Cable giant Comcast continues to expect to get regulatory approval of its planned acquisition of Time Warner Cable, chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said Tuesday, once again calling it “an approvable transaction.”
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Google:
Google's Blogger bans public sharing of images or video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity after March 23  —  Adult content policy on Blogger  —  Starting March 23, 2015, you won't be able to publicly share images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger.
Marc Graser / Variety:
Lionsgate Invests in Videogame Publisher Telltale Games as Company Expands Beyond Films, TV  —  As it looks to expand beyond its core business of making movies and television shows, Lionsgate has invested in Telltale Games, the developer of games based on AMC's “The Walking Dead” and HBO's “Game of Thrones.”
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Press regulator to look at Daily Telegraph and HSBC allegations  —  Ipso chair says he wants to hear from ex-columnist Peter Oborne, staff and bosses over claims paper allowed commercial pressures to dictate editorial decisions  —  The press regulator is to look at allegations …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How The Huffington Post, Fusion, Mashable, NPR, Philly.com, and The Verge are using Snapchat  —  Snapchat stories: Here's how 6 news orgs are thinking about the chat app  —  When Sam Sheffer, The Verge's social media editor, launched the site's Snapchat account at the end of July last year, he meant it to be a small-scale experiment.
Jake Silverstein / New York Times:
Behind the Relaunch of The New York Times Magazine  —  Welcome to the new New York Times Magazine.  For the past four months, as we've been putting out the magazine you read every weekend, we've also been busying ourselves behind the scenes, crafting something new and different.
Jennifer Faull / The Drum:
MTV partners with international mobile operators to launch apps targeting millennials  —  Viacom-owned MTV has partnered with a number of global mobile network operators for the launch of two new video and digital music apps; MTV Play and MTV Trax.  —  The apps have been offered to operators …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Cox Media partners with TubeMogul, allows ad buyers to buy linear TV and web ads via same digital interface  —  Cox Media Partners With TubeMogul For Web Video Ad Sales  —  Little by little, the TV ad business is adopting principles from digital media.  —  Case in point: Cox Media …
Discussion: @tubemogul
Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot:
Al Jazeera fails to redact key parts of intel document, endangers Britain's North Korean spy  —  Al Jazeera error puts North Korean spy's life on the line  —  Newly leaked documents show the British government attempting to recruit a North Korean spy—but journalists have failed …
 
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
The First Books From Amazon's Crowdsourced Publishing Platform Arrive March 3
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Swiss journalists who used covert filming win press freedom judgment
Steve Cohn / MinOnline:
Paul Jowdy Elevated to Women's Wear Daily VP and Group Publisher
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nielsen: TV Oscar audience dropped by 16% this year, but Twitter's numbers dropped only by 6.5%
Chris Welch / The Verge:
MLB considers spinning off its powerful streaming business
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Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Chegg Will Outsource All Its Print Textbooks to Remake Itself as a Digital-Only Company
Discussion: PR Newswire and Business Insider
Mike Collett-White / Reuters:
Reuters journalist Maria Golovnina dies in Pakistan aged 34
Johan Ahlander / Reuters:
Swedish reporter says freed after being held by Syrian government forces
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
BuzzFeed poaches Re/code's John Paczkowski, NYT's William Alden, Popsugar's Nicole Nguyen, and Nieman's Caroline O'Donovan for SF bureau