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1:30 PM ET, February 28, 2016

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry confirm they are parting ways, in talks about an exit deal  —  Melissa Harris-Perry is out at MSNBC  —  Melissa Harris-Perry will not be back on MSNBC.  —  On Sunday morning, two days after the host's private fight with management went public …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Melissa Harris-Perry refuses to host her MSNBC show Saturday after weeks of preemptions and what she calls loss of editorial control  —  Melissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Her MSNBC Show After Pre-Emptions  —  Melissa Harris-Perry said she was refusing to go on the MSNBC show she hosts this Saturday …
Jamil Smith / Medium:
Melissa Harris-Perry's email to staffers of her show: I love our show. I want it back.  —  Melissa Harris-Perry's Email to Her #nerdland Staff  —  On Friday afternoon, media reports emerged about my friend Melissa Harris-Perry's refusal to host her eponymous weekend program on MSNBC on Saturday.
Alex Pareene / Gawker:
Trump retweeted a Gawker bot that tweeted Mussolini quotes and attributed them to Trump  —  How We Fooled Donald Trump Into Retweeting Benito Mussolini  —  Is Donald Trump a fascist?  Experts, historians, and pundits have debated the question for months.  One thing has been certain for a while now: He tweets like one.
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Chris Hughes sells New Republic to Win McCormack, founder of Tin House; Hamilton Fish named publisher  —  Chris Hughes Sells New Republic to Liberal Publisher Win McCormack  —  Mr. McCormack, founder of Tin House literary quarterly, names Hamilton Fish as publisher  —  Welcome to a new New Republic.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump says he'll change US libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations  —  Donald Trump: We're going to ‘open up’ libel laws  —  Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to change libel laws in the United States so that he can have an easier time suing news organizations.
Matt Waite / Nieman Lab:
An amendment in the FAA's budget reauthorization bill could allow journalists and others to use drone cameras with fewer rules  —  Why journalists interested in drones should be watching an FAA reauthorization bill  —  Chances are good you haven't been following the day-to-day workings of the House Transportation Committee.
Discussion: Mondaq.Com and Fortune
Greg Howard / Deadspin:
How SB Nation, structured to gain prestige from longform writing with minimal editing costs, published the flawed Holtzclaw profile despite editor's warning  —  How SB Nation Published Their Daniel Holtzclaw Story  —  Last week, Vox Media's SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?” …
David Cay Johnston / Al Jazeera America:
As Al Jazeera America's online operation ends, a look at its approach to journalism, its challenges, and successes  —  The way news should be done  —  Though it too shall pass, Al Jazeera America was a model of the journalism the country desperately needs  —  Great journalism doesn't always draw a big audience.
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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Two-year-old FiveThirtyEight has seen traffic and headcount increase, claims full backing of ESPN, and is expanding coverage to science, health, and e-sports  —  ESPN's FiveThirtyEight: 'We won't go the way of Grantland'  —  When ESPN turned out the lights on Grantland last fall …
Discussion: @bencasselman
Shona Sanzgiri / Inside Flipboard:
Interview with Mark Coatney, formerly with Tumblr, Al Jazeera America, and WaPo, on legacy media, Yahoo cuts, and what is and isn't working in digital media  —  On the Red Couch with Digital Media Consultant Mark Coatney  —  Nine years ago, Tumblr was born.
 
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