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12:05 PM ET, March 1, 2016

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Chris Morris, contract photographer for Time, roughed up by Secret Service agent at Trump rally at Radford University in Virginia  —  Time photographer roughed up by security at Trump event  —  Longtime Time contract photographer Chris Morris was roughed up by a security agent at a Donald Trump rally in Virginia on Monday.
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Forget ‘Spotlight’: There's a war against journalism  —  Excuse me for a) not watching the big Academy Awards whoopdedoo on Sunday night, where “Spotlight” — a movie about remarkable work by investigative journalists at an East Coast metro newspaper not unlike my own …
TIME:
TIME Responds to Confrontation With Secret Service at Trump Event
Ken Doctor / Politico:
LA Times staffers in dispute with bosses after Oscars tickets initially allocated to executives, leaving reporters unable to attend the event  —  Oscar spotlight a dim one for hometown L.A. Times  —  While old-fashioned investigative journalism took center stage in Los Angeles at the Oscars Sunday evening …
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Ken Doctor / Politico:   LA Times Editor Davan Maharaj could be given joint publisher-and-editor role, more executives to depart in wake of CEO Jack Griffin's firing
New York Times:
Fake New York Times article claiming Elizabeth Warren endorsed Bernie Sanders was viewed over 50K times and received over 15K shares  —  Fake New York Times Article Claims Elizabeth Warren Endorsed Bernie Sanders  —  A webpage that masqueraded as a New York Times article and claimed …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Conde Nast acquires Poetic, London-based real-time content editing system, co-founded by ex-Twitter engineer Blaine Cook; terms not disclosed  —  Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer  —  Condé Nast has acquired Poetica …
Discussion: MinOnline and WWD
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Snapchat brings Live Stories to the web for the first time  —  Some of last night's most entertaining Oscars coverage was on Snapchat, but this year you didn't have to be inside Snapchat's app to see it: you could watch it all on the web.  Snapchat quietly updated its website last night with a way to view the Oscars' Live Story online.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Melissa Harris-Perry was a rare voice of substance on cable news  —  By early February, cable news had figured out how to discuss the prospects of Democratic presidential Hillary Clinton.  It was all about losing leads, about her trustworthy numbers, about her management of husband and former President Bill Clinton.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Economist to relaunch its lifestyle and culture title, Intelligent Life, as 1843 next week, will expand coverage beyond Europe to include Asia and America  —  The Economist relaunches Intelligent Life as 1843  —  The Economist's lifestyle and culture title is getting a global makeover.
Discussion: @rafat
Alex French / New York Times:
How a Fox News analyst, Wayne Simmons, fooled the network and conservative media into thinking he was an ex-CIA operative  —  The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst … Supported by  —  Kent Clizbe, a 55-year-old former C.I.A. officer and intelligence contractor, has cultivated a diverse set of interests in his later years.
Discussion: @nytmag, @billwasik and @frenchalexm
Financial Times:
Financial Times to launch on Facebook at Work, to offer business version of the network to its global staff  —  Financial Times to launch on Facebook at Work  —  The Financial Times is working with Facebook to offer a business version of the popular social network to its staff around the globe.
Dan Abrams / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams new site, LawNewz.com, gets 543K unique visitors in first month  —  LawNewz.com Breaks 500,000 Unique Visitors In Inaugural Month, Mediaite Just Shy of 7 million  —  When I launched Mediaite.com over 6 years ago, I figured it would be just a hobby.
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Gawker and Hulk Hogan sex tape trial to begin next Monday; jury selection begins this week  —  Hulk Hogan and Gawker ready to face off in court  —  Hulk Hogan's legendary victory over Andre the Giant in 1987 — punctuated by a body slam of his late 520-pound foe — was the culmination of weeks of hype.
Discussion: @brianstelter
 
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