Mediagazer: Fox: O'Reilly Didn't See Bombings In Ireland, But He Saw Photos Of Them (Brendan James/Talking Points Memo)

10:25 AM ET, March 2, 2015

Top News:

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 …

Discussion: Guardian, Poynter, Daily Mail, FishbowlNY, Financial Times, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Variety, @helen121, @tcarmody, @tim_brannigan, @sarahw, @pkafka, @moorehn, @owillis, @peterjukes and @peterjukes

Financial Times:

Rebekah Brooks set to run Dublin-based Storyful — Former tabloid editor cleared in hacking trial returning to Murdoch's News Corp — Rebekah Brooks, the former tabloid editor who was cleared of all charges in Britain's phone hacking scandal, is returning to News Corp to run Storyful, the company's social media news agency.

Discussion: @chrisjhorn, Bloomberg Business, International Business Times, Hollywood Reporter, BBC, Capital New York, Reuters, The Drum, @paulyq, @wilp, @fraserec4, Mashable and The Wrap

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.

Discussion: Pressthink, Talking Points Memo, @brucebartlett, @beychok and Business Insider

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: Gawker and Washington Post

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?”

Discussion: CNNMoney, @moneyries, @ezraklein, Poynter, SocialTimes, Columbia Journalism Review and kottke.org

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
One BuzzFeed post on #thedress has grabbed 28M views, 79% from mobile, 94% from social sources

Discussion: Re/code, Medium, Digiday, @charliespiering, @brianstelter, @psu_rose, Poynter, @autoy, Hollywood Life, Washington Post, AdAge and PRNewser

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.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @sdadich, @marcuswohlsen and Talking Biz News

Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:

John Fairchild, Editor of Women's Wear Daily, Dies at 87 — John Fairchild, the witty and irascible publisher and editor who transformed his family's fusty trade publication, Women's Wear Daily, into the lively bible of the fashion industry, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

Discussion: WWD, @alexandrajacobs, New York Magazine, Fashion Times, theFashionSpot, style.com, WWD, Refinery29, The Corsair and Associated Press

Rick Gladstone / New York Times:

Washington Post's imprisoned Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian finally allowed to hire lawyer — After 7 Months in Jail, U.S. Journalist in Iran Is Allowed to Hire Lawyer — Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post's Tehran correspondent, who has been imprisoned by the Iranian authorities …

Discussion: CBS News, The Beacon Review, @tparsi and Washington Post

Channel 4 News:

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi could be facing the death penalty — Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes over accusations he insulted Islam, could now be facing the death penalty, Channel 4 News learns. — Raif Badawi, 31, was expected to serve a 10-year jail sentence …

Discussion: The Independent, @reprieve and Guardian

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

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Chris Evans emerges as de facto Telegraph group editor-in-chief — One consequence of the Peter Oborne/HSBC row is that Chris Evans has emerged as de facto editor-in-chief of the Telegraph titles. — In Peter Oborne's resignation blog post on Open Democracy he complained that the title …

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.

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review and @mlcalderone