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Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy try to return to routine life pending next hearing March 8 — Freed Al Jazeera journalist: I can't get back my baby's first 6 months — Jailed journalists back in court 03:30 — Story highlights — Cairo (CNN)Everyone is on a mission to make up for lost time.
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Al-Jazeera journalist in Paris court next week over drone flight — Al-Jazeera journalist in Paris court next week over drone flight - Yahoo!7 — Al-Jazeera journalist ‘in Paris court next week’ over drone flight — Paris (AFP) - One of three Al-Jazeera journalists arrested on suspicion …
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Chris Johanesen / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed uses apps to focus on richer experiences with different types of stories with varying reader interest — What The Hell Are We Doing With Apps? — You might have heard we are working on a news app. You might have heard that we've recently acquired not one, but two app companies.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-Times editor Jill Abramson inks $1M book deal — Simon & Schuster has won the bidding for the first book by former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson since she was booted from her job last May, The Post has learned. — The winning price was not disclosed but is believed …
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Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
Mobile news app Circa launches responsive website to tap Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter traffic — WHY CIRCA'S BRINGING NEWS FROM SMARTPHONES TO... YOUR WORK COMPUTER? — Mobile news app Circa is gearing up for a big change: They're jumping to the web. A new responsive web homepage …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bloomberg's Justin Smith: ‘Platforms have done a better job at media.’ — It has been a year and a half since Justin Smith became the global CEO of the Bloomberg Media Group with the mandate of making the Bloomberg LP media arm a household name with business executives around the world.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly now scrutinized for story of murdered nuns — The questions keep piling up for Bill O'Reilly, and increasingly those questions are being raised by a liberal media watchdog that has long feuded with the conservative Fox News host. — For the second time in as many days …
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Bill O'Reilly's role as professional provocateur, not news anchor, feeds the Fox brand and wallet; his show brought in over $100M in ad revenue in 2014
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Matt Townsend / Bloomberg Business:
Barnes & Noble to Separate College Unit From Retail Chain, Nook — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Barnes & Noble Inc., the largest bookstore chain, will split off its college-focused business from its retail and Nook e-reader operations, creating two publicly traded companies.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Two examples of gratuitous anonymous quotations in the NYT: the absurd, on port authority restrooms, and the serious, on Jeb Bush — AnonyWatch: On Port Authority Restrooms and Jeb Bush's Adviser — I'd never want to stand in the way of letting someone fulfill her ambitions …
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Poynter, @dangillmor, @ggreenwald, @alexhuds, @ivanoransky, Mother Jones, The New York Observer, Gawker, New York Magazine and Chicago Reader
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Q&A with Dick Costolo on Twitter's lack of broad appeal and plans to handle harassment — Dick Costolo Thinks It's O.K. to Never Tweet — In a recent earnings report, you said Twitter had 288 million active users a month — only a few million more than in the quarter before.
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@erikmal, @waatho, @nytmag and Business Insider
Jamie Dunkley / London Evening Standard:
Reed Elsevier rebrands as RELX and overhauls corporate structure — Media giant Reed Elsevier has changed its name and overhauled its complex corporate structure in a move welcomed by analysts. — The company, which can trace its roots back 120 years to a newsprint manufacturing plant in Kent …
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Financial Times, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance and Talking New Media
Steven Davidoff Solomon / New York Times:
Dish Network saved $3.25B by bidding for spectrum as a “very small business” using loopholes — How Loopholes Turned Dish Network Into a ‘Very Small Business’ — Charles W. Ergen, the billionaire who controls the satellite-TV provider Dish Network, and his company …
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Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
BBC's licence fee should be decriminalised then scrapped, MPs say — The Department for Culture, Media and Sport says that the BBC is not ‘brave enough’ and needs to do more original programming — The BBC's licence fee is becoming “anachronistic” and should be de-criminalised …
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Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:
Snapchat Our Story viewership is comparable to popular television shows with tens of millions of views — Snapchat's “Our Stories” are generating tens of millions of views — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story”
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