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4:35 AM ET, February 24, 2017

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
The New York Times is using the Oscars to launch a multi-faceted ad campaign about “The Truth”, the paper's first TV ad push in a decade  —  The New York Times is taking the unusual and expensive step of advertising during the Academy Awards on Sunday, joining companies like McDonalds …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
James O'Keefe's 2009 undercover audio recordings of CNN employees have landed with little impact, though not all hours of tape have been made available  —  For a few days, Project Veritas founder and conservative activist James O'Keefe has been hyping the release of what he said were hundreds …
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Fox News contributor Alan Colmes, Sean Hannity's former on-air debating partner, has died at age 66  —  Longtime radio and cable news broadcaster Alan Colmes is dead at the age of 66 after reportedly battling a brief illness.  —  Fox News moments ago reported on Colmes' death with a segment narrated …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Google's Jigsaw unveils Perspective, an AI-powered tool for publishers to weed out abusive comments, available as an API for free  —  A research team tied to Google unveiled a new tool on Thursday that could have a profound effect on how we talk to each other online.
Timothy Pratt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed released 1.47M pages of documents on paper instead of digitally after public records tussle related to federal probe of city contracts  —  IN A SURREAL SCENE near the end of Black Orpheus, the title character seeks his lost love, Eurydice, in a government building at night.
Discussion: New York Times, @digiphile and myajc
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Time Warner selling Atlanta's WPCH to Meredith for $70M, a move that might mean Time Warner-AT&T deal can avoid FCC review  —  Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) said on Thursday it plans to sell a broadcast station in Atlanta to Meredith Corp (MDP.N) for $70 million, which could help speed the company's planned merger with AT&T Inc (T.N).
Compete:
Univision's Fusion Media Group launches Compete, a site covering e-sports and competitive gaming, operating as a Kotaku subdomain  —  Welcome to Compete, a joint venture between Deadspin and Kotaku dedicated to covering the best, worst, dumbest, most thrilling, most interesting, and …
Discussion: Bloomberg and @deadspin
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
News Corp CFO Bedi Singh is leaving, will be replaced by Susan Panuccio, CFO of News Corp Australia  —  News Corp., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron's, announced Thursday that Chief Financial Officer Bedi Singh is leaving the company.
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