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1:55 PM ET, March 2, 2015

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Rebekah Brooks likely to return to News Corp in UK-based role focusing on digital endeavors  —  News Corp. Set to Rehire Rebekah Brooks, Acquitted Executive  —  Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's media holdings in Britain, acquitted last year on charges related …
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Financial Times:
Rebekah Brooks set to run Dublin-based Storyful
Mother Jones:
Bill O'Reilly's Own Video From Falklands Protest Contradicts His “War Zone” Claim  —  He has said he saw civilians massacred in Buenos Aires.  The report he filed at the time said nothing of the sort.  —  Throughout the controversy set off by a recent Mother Jones article …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
The O'Reilly tapes: Phone recordings raise new questions about JFK story  —  One evening in March more than 30 years ago, Gaeton Fonzi received a call from a man whose voice and name are now instantly recognizable.  —  “Hi Gaeton,” the caller said.  “Bill O'Reilly.”  —  The year was 1977.
Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Fox: O'Reilly Didn't See Bombings In Ireland, But He Saw Photos Of Them  —  Fox News issued a clarification on Friday on behalf of its star host Bill O'Reilly, saying that he said he'd “seen” bombings in Northern Ireland because police showed him photos of them.
Discussion: Guardian, Gawker and Washington Post
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
The New Republic's investment arm buys part of analytics startup Parse.ly, deal said to be in “mid-six figures”  —  The New Republic's investment arm buys up a piece of analytics startup Parse.ly  —  The New Republic's investment arm has made its first move in buying a piece of web analytics firm Parse.ly.
Discussion: @rustyk5, @guyvidra and @parsely
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Yahoo TV Converts to Tumblr-Based Digital Magazine Format  —  Yahoo's TV news and reviews section has adopted the company's “digital magazine” format, a visually oriented design based on the Tumblr mico-blogging website.  —  The new Yahoo TV digital magazine is the 11th title in the format …
Discussion: VentureBeat and Tubefilter
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Under a new editor, CJR relaunches website, consults Columbia students about its future  —  C.J.R. gets advice from students and an updated look  —  Columbia Journalism Review, born 1961, is leaning on a class of college students to help it prepare for the digital future.
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Can Former Planet Money Host Build the ‘HBO of Podcasts’?  —  “Are you meeting someone with money?  Alex Blumberg's wife asks him within the first 30 seconds of the first episode of StartUp, his podcast about launching a podcast network.  Maybe Mr. Blumberg should rethink his footwear, she suggests. ”
Discussion: @amstrategy
Dao Nguyen / BuzzFeed:
What It's Like To Work On BuzzFeed's Tech Team During Record Traffic  —  It's all about the company culture, folks.  Here's how it all went down (or didn't) last night.  —  BuzzFeed Publisher  —  8:23 p.m.: Jay's sysops pager goes off.  His wife says, “Uh oh, is it the dress?”  He replies, “What dress?”
Jamie Campbell / The Independent:
Avijit Roy murder: Bangladeshi police arrest ‘radical Islamist’ over the murder of American-Bangladeshi blogger  —  A radical Islamist has been arrested over the murder of an American blogger who was hacked to death in a machete attack.  —  Farabi Shafiur Rahman was detained by Bangladeshi authorities …
William Dotinga / Courthouse News Service:
In lawsuit, auditor says LA Times fired him for blowing whistle on scheme to pad circulation figures  —  L.A. Times Juggled the Books and Fired Him, Auditor Says  —  LOS ANGELES (CN) - Los Angeles Times fired an auditor for blowing the whistle on a scheme to pad circulation numbers, the man and his company claim in court.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Chris Evans emerges as de facto Telegraph group editor-in-chief
Mark Scott / New York Times:
The Netherlands' two-year-old net neutrality rules provide a good case study for the US
Discussion: @owillis and New York Magazine
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Gawker Media's Nick Denton Goes It Alone: The Code/Media Interview (Video)
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