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10:00 PM ET, March 2, 2015

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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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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Fox: O'Reilly Didn't See Bombings In Ireland, But He Saw Photos Of Them
Discussion: Gawker and Raw Story
Jamil Smith / The New Republic:
News organizations shouldn't just promise to “cover race”; they should dedicate a beat to it  —  Working on the Race Beat  —  The future of racial coverage at The New York Times and elsewhere  —  In November 2013, Tanzina Vega, a young reporter for The New York Times …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Former NYC mayor candidate and supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis may be negotiating to buy New York Daily News  —  John Catsimatidis is mystery man behind Daily News sale  —  Maverick supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis is said to be the mystery suitor negotiating to buy the embattled Daily News from Mort Zuckerman.
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
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Netflix will launch in New Zealand and Australia on March 24  —  Netflix is announcing that its video streaming services will become available in New Zealand and Australia on March 24, 2015.  —  The service will be available on smart televisions made by Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Philips …
Scott Dadich / Wired:
Wired launches redesigned responsive site, web pages now load twice as fast  —  WELCOME TO THE NEW WIRED  —  Welcome to the new WIRED.  This site is the culmination of more than two years of work by dozens of super-talented people, people I'm proud to have as colleagues.
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, @parsely and @guyvidra
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Uber launches a quarterly print magazine, Momentum, for drivers in Boston, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Ohio, and Oklahoma  —  Uber just launched a quarterly print magazine, Momentum  —  Here's something different.  —  Uber, the $41 billion ride hailing company …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Russia Today faces inquiry over anti-western comments in Ukraine debate  —  Media regulator to launch investigation into views expressed during Crosstalk programme on Kremlin-backed broadcaster  —  Russia Today is to be investigated by media regulator Ofcom over anti-western comments …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube and Turner Sports partner to offer March Madness college basketball highlights  —  YouTube to Showcase March Madness Highlights  —  YouTube wants in on the madness.  —  The Web video powerhouse has seen Twitter strike deals to showcase both National Football League …
Tumblr Staff:
Tumblr metrics on #TheDress: 73M pageviews on original post, 140K pageviews per minute between 10:30-11:30 p.m. Thursday night  —  Remember last Thursday, when a single slip of fabric covered up the whole internet?  Here's a few stats about exactly how much and how quickly that dress blew up.
Discussion: CNNMoney
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
 
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Weakened BBC Would See “American Tastemakers” Dominate U.K., Chief Says
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William Dotinga / Courthouse News Service:
In lawsuit, auditor says LA Times fired him for blowing whistle on scheme to pad circulation figures
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Chris Evans emerges as de facto Telegraph group editor-in-chief
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

 
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