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Bill O'Reilly's role as professional provocateur, not news anchor, feeds the Fox brand and wallet; his show brought in over $100M in ad revenue in 2014 — For Bill O'Reilly and Fox News, a Symbiotic Relationship — Hours after the news broke that Brian Williams had misrepresented his account …
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Al-Jazeera journalist in Paris court next week over drone flight — Al-Jazeera journalist in Paris court next week over drone flight - Yahoo!7 — Al-Jazeera journalist ‘in Paris court next week’ over drone flight — Paris (AFP) - One of three Al-Jazeera journalists arrested on suspicion …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
New York Times community editor on comments: expansion plans, “censorship” complaints, West Coast time issues, and resource challenge from moderating by hand — Trying to Keep a ‘Celebrity Class of Commenters’ Happy — Censorship! Discrimination! Downright confusion!
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Two examples of gratuitous anonymous quotations in the NYT: the absurd, on port authority restrooms, and the serious, on Jeb Bush — AnonyWatch: On Port Authority Restrooms and Jeb Bush's Adviser — I'd never want to stand in the way of letting someone fulfill her ambitions …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Viacom's Nickelodeon will launch Noggin, a subscription video service aimed at pre-schoolers, on March 5 for $5.99/month — Nickelodeon To Launch Noggin Subscription-Video Service in March — Nickelodeon is tapping into its past to help spark its future.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-Times editor Jill Abramson inks $1M book deal — Simon & Schuster has won the bidding for the first book by former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson since she was booted from her job last May, The Post has learned. — The winning price was not disclosed but is believed …
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Steven Davidoff Solomon / New York Times:
Dish Network saved $3.25B by bidding for spectrum as a “very small business” using loopholes — How Loopholes Turned Dish Network Into a ‘Very Small Business’ — Charles W. Ergen, the billionaire who controls the satellite-TV provider Dish Network, and his company …
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Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:
Snapchat Our Story viewership is comparable to popular television shows with tens of millions of views — Snapchat's “Our Stories” are generating tens of millions of views — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story”
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Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
BBC's licence fee should be decriminalised then scrapped, MPs say — The Department for Culture, Media and Sport says that the BBC is not ‘brave enough’ and needs to do more original programming — The BBC's licence fee is becoming “anachronistic” and should be de-criminalised …
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Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
WSJ: YouTube remains unprofitable, breaking even in 2014 with revenue of $4B — YouTube still doesn't make Google any money — YouTube still isn't a profitable business for Google, sources tell The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler. — Thanks to a premium ads push last year called …
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Tom Risen / US News:
The FCC is likely to pass net neutrality rules Thursday, but Republicans and telecoms will fight on — The FCC is likely to pass net neutrality rules Thursday, but Republicans and telecoms will fight on. — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler expects a lawsuit challenging his net neutrality rules.
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@tomrisen and Broadcasting & Cable
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Q&A with Dick Costolo on Twitter's lack of broad appeal and plans to handle harassment — Dick Costolo Thinks It's O.K. to Never Tweet — In a recent earnings report, you said Twitter had 288 million active users a month — only a few million more than in the quarter before.
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