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Brian Williams / Inside NBC News:
Brian Williams taking temporary leave from NBC Nightly News for next several days — A Personal Note from Brian Williams — In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions.
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Who Could Replace Brian Williams At ‘NBC Nightly News’?
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NBC News President Deborah Turness confirms probe into Brian Williams' story, working on “next steps”
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Vox previews Obama interview with a Facebook video, full interview goes live Monday — An exclusive first look at Vox's interview with President Obama — In this excerpt of Barack Obama's conversation with Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias, the president gives his perspective on why the economy …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
BuzzFeed will interview Obama on Tuesday, using Facebook to amplify audience — BuzzFeed editor to interview Obama — BuzzFeed is about to have its first presidential interview. — On Sunday morning the website announced that its editor in chief, Ben Smith, will sit down with President Obama at the White House on Tuesday.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Newsweek held story about CIA/Mossad role in assassination of top Hezbollah operative for a year, at the CIA's request, then got scooped by the Washington Post — What the CIA didn't want Americans to know — Agency brass tried to spike a story implicating the CIA in the killing of a top Hezbollah terrorist.
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Al Jazeera English:
Egypt sets Feb. 12 retrial date for Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy — Egypt sets retrial date for jailed Al Jazeera staff — Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy to appear in court on February 12. — Egyptian authorities have set a date for the retrial …
Diana Marszalek / NetNewsCheck:
New Orleans' The Lens facing a crucial year after string of funding setbacks, unexpected move — Can N.O. Lens' Critical Reporting Sustain? — New Orleans nonprofit investigative site The Lens is facing a crucible year after a string of funding setbacks that may be directly tied to some of its hard-hitting reporting.
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Agence France-Presse:
Ukraine arrests TV journalist on treason charges after he denounces draft in YouTube video — Ukraine Arrests Journalist After Call to Dodge Draft — KIEV: — Ukraine's security service arrested a journalist on treason charges on Sunday after he posted a video online urging people …
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Lydia Tomkiw / Nieman Lab:
With aggregation and translation, Russia's free-press-in-exile site Meduza is reaching English readers — At a moment when the world's attention has again turned towards Eastern Europe, a new media outlet is using a mixture of translation and aggregation to bring news from Russia to an English-speaking audience.
Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
In his final column, outgoing NPR ombudsman addresses the ethical challenges NPR faces — Last Thoughts: NPR And The Balance Between Ethics And The Nation — Editor's Note: My predecessor, Edward Schumacher-Matos, has been reflecting on his tenure as NPR's Ombudsman, which ended Jan. 31.
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Why do writers inaccurately call the software that writes AP news stories “robots”? — Automated Insights' AP earnings reports: “Robot journalists” a misnomer? — Automated journalism is no longer science fiction. It's time to change what we call it.
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Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day
Agence France-Presse:
Japan seizes passport of journalist trying to visit Syria: reports — 2 hrs ago — Japan has seized the passport of a journalist planning to travel to Syria following the brutal killing of two Japanese hostages by the Islamic State group there, local media said Sunday.
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Lack of listener data has held advertising back on podcasts, but outlook is improving — The measurement challenge facing podcast advertising — Apple has been a big factor in the growth of podcasting, but it's also a major force holding the medium back.
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